Welcome to the latest newsletter from Clarendon Business Centres. This month, we celebrate fifteen years of running Clarendon Business Centres and we feature some great client success stories and welcome some new clients who have recently moved into a Clarendon office. We also draw your attention to a fabulous £10K competition run by our partners, Adido, and feature an excellent Christmas Clarendon Wine Offer. Don't miss our amazing Meeting Room Offer in our Special Offer section this month and remember to enter our Gunpowder Plot competition further down this newsletter! Please call us for a chat on 0845 0780370 or email us at: oxford@clarendonbc.co.uk. Chris Hooton Editor, The Clarendon Natasha Turner Oxfordshire Area Sian Davis Bournemouth & Poole Simon Goldsmith Bracknell Centre Charlene Gunn Bromley Centre Angela Jude Fulham Centre Candy Woodington Operations Director Julian Cooper Managing Director

Clarendon Are 15 Years Old And Counting... This month, Clarendon Business Centres celebrates 15 years of providing serviced offices! Our humble origins started initially from a floor in Oxford's Clarendon House and within what seems like a blink of an eye, we have 11 Business Centres spread around the South East from Oxfordshire to Bournemouth & Poole and from Bracknell to Fulham & Bromley. We are very much a "people business" and we would like to take this opportunity to thank our brilliant staff for their hard work over the last fifteen years but, mainly, we would like to thank you, our loyal customers. As a token of our thanks we have picked out our two longest-serving clients in Oxford's Belsyre Court, who have remained with us since 2002, and we are delighted to treat them both to a special bottle of bubbly! Jeremy Newell of Aerogen and Terry Thomson of Oxford Risk (pictured left) are enjoying their long tenure at Clarendon. "We are especially delighted to congratulate our longest serving clients," says Natasha Turner, Oxfordshire Area Manager. "At Clarendon, we cater for clients who wish to stay for three months whilst they are between offices as well as clients who wish to establish a base with us. Above all, it is the clients themselves who choose how long they wish to remain with us, and so to have so many clients who have been with us for over five years, let alone ten years plus, is a real vote of confidence." To move into a Clarendon office for three months or for the next fifteen years, call Natasha Turner on 0845 0780370 or email her at: oxford@clarendonbc.co.uk. Don't Miss Out! There is so much more going on at Clarendon than we can communicate in a monthly newsletter! So for more offers, competitions and news snippets, please make sure that you are following us on our various social media platforms... Click below!

Bracknell Focus: 3seven9 Win Best Use Of Social Media 3seven9, a marketing and technology agency based in Abbey House, have won a prestigious industry award for Best use of Social Media. The Wirehive 100 awards were set up to celebrate the creative and technical work of digital agencies outside London. 3seven9 won for their Facebook campaign that raised the profile of their client, Aster Homes - but more importantly, generated and converted leads through smart use of online content and an understanding of the target market. Clare Crawford, Commercial Director for 3seven9's client, Aster Group commented: "3seven9 understood the market, the customer and how to get the best out of social media and online marketing for us - the number of people seeing content through this campaign still astounds me." 3seven9 have been based in Abbey House, Clarendon centre in Bracknell since 2009, together with their sister company TSI-Resourcing. Sarah Ahmed from 3seven9 said: "The friendly and helpful team at Clarendon have facilitated the management of our business together with our sister company over the last few years. The team can't do enough for you and always keep us smiling." To find out how 3seven9 can get ROI from social media for you, visit www.3seven9.com or contact David Wood from 3seven9 on 01344 667 410. This Month's App Concur Keep track of your expenses and stay productive on the go. Large and small businesses can easily track business travel and manage expense reports anytime – from anywhere – with Concur. Another App next month!

Fulham Focus: PayasUgym National Sales Awards Finalist 2013 PayasUgym.com, based in Clarendon's Fulham Business Centre, provides online lead generation and marketing services to more than 1,500 health clubs across the UK in order to get more people involved in health and fitness. David Butler of PayasUgym.com has been shortlisted for UK Telephone Sales Executive of the Year at this year's National Sales Awards in partnership with Huthwaite International. David will now represent the UK Health & Fitness sector as he battles it out for the prestigious award, with the winner being revealed at the National Sales Awards held on 7 November. Jamie Ward, CEO of PayasUgym.com said: "We are delighted that David has been nominated to represent the Health & Fitness industry at the National Sales Awards in partnership with Huthwaite International. His contribution to establishing the payasUgym.com network of more than 1,500 health clubs over the past two years has been invaluable." "Our offices at Fulham Green have proved a perfect working environment and the Clarendon staff are exceptionally helpful." To find out more about PayasUgym, please visit their website at: visit PayasUgym.com Did You Know...? "As Cambridge University rules excluded keeping pet dogs, Lord Byron installed a tame bear at Trinity College!" More pearls of wisdom next month!

Bromley Focus: Hit Training Move Into Bromley Hit Training are a work based learning provider giving specialist training and delivering apprenticeships to the hospitality industry. They know the hospitality and leisure industries intimately because their trainers are all highly skilled and experienced professionals from their sectors. The Bromley team looks after the whole of South London and you will see their current team of 10 people coming and going from the Bromley offices. Jane Ugarte, Hit Training's Area Manager comments: "We would like to thank the Clarendon clients that we have already met for their warm welcome and to say 'hello' to those we have yet to meet. The Clarendon team have been brilliant - very friendly and always professional and efficient." To find out more, please contact Jane Ugarte on 07940 489773 or email: jane.ugarte@hittraining.co.uk Where's The Bear? If you know where Barney the Bear is, email us at: oxford@clarendonbc.co.uk and one lucky person will win a bottle of wine!

Bournemouth Focus: Bournemouth Welcome Emma and Laila Bournemouth and Poole would like to welcome their two new team members. Emma and Laila joined the team late September and have rapidly learned the ropes. Laila previously managed a hotel and brought her exceptional customer services skills with her when she joined Clarendon. Emma, having worked as a receptionist at a private fitness club, has quickly taken to handling the busy switchboard in Bournemouth and is excelling in all areas of her work. As Sian, Clarendon's local Area Manager, is now on maternity leave, one of the existing team members has stepped in as Acting Centre manager. Tia Colledge (pictured left), from our Poole branch, has spent the last 9 months working closely with Sian and is confident in her new role. Laura from the Bournemouth branch as also worked her way up to Senior Customer Service Assistant and is doing a fantastic job of supporting the new starters and keeping things ship shape! To enquire about an office in Bournemouth or Poole, call Tia Colledge on: 01202 788700 or email her on: bournemouth@clarendonbc.co.uk.

Adido 10k Giveaway Competition Adido is the fastest growing digital agency in the South - having worked with over 500 clients, including Clarendon Business Centres, since its inception ten years ago. With expertise in integrated digital marketing, creating bespoke websites and maintaining search engine optimisation for clients, the agency offers a full service package including PPC, advertising, social network advertising and mobile marketing. To celebrate a decade of doing digital better, they are giving one lucky business/start-up/graduate the opportunity to win up to £10,000's worth of design and marketing from their expert team. The winner will be someone who inspires the judging panel and someone who Adido believe will benefit from their ten years of experience. To enter the competition before November 30th 2013, or to find out more, please visit 10kgiveaway.adi.do

The Clarendon Wine Club - Our Christmas Four Pack Is The Perfect Gift! We have teamed up with specialist wine importers Trailblazing Wine to create the Clarendon Wine Club! For this month's offer, we've put together a specially selected Christmas Four Pack. Each pack contains a fresh and easy drinking Prosecco, an aromatic white ideal for smoked salmon and turkey, a big and juicy red - perfect with winter stews, game pies and, of course, the turkey and a Fine Ruby port lovely with mixed nuts, mince pies and the Christmas pudding! The cost for this 4 bottle pack is ONLY £50 including delivery so this makes the perfect Christmas present or a lovely way to say thank you for this year's business! Click here to place your order. If you have special gift packs you'd like to send to customers or if you have any Christmas events coming up, please do get in touch.

Clarendon Special Offer: 50% Off Your First Meeting Room Booking! For this month's special offer, when you book your first meeting room (at any centre) you will receive: 50% off the normal fees on production of this Meeting Room Voucher. Click here to download your Meeting Room Voucher. This offer is available during November 2013, so book your meeting room now. For other offers, please contact the Business Centre of your choice and ask for their current promotions.

Competition Time: Gunpowder Plot Last Month's Competition Results: Thank you for your entries to our Golden Gate Bridge Competition and congratulations to David Butler of Payasugym in Fulham, as he correctly answered that San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge first opened in 1937. This month, if you would like to win a £25 M&S voucher to spend on hot toddies and sheepskin boots, simply answer the following question? "Which English King Was The Target Of The Gunpowder Plot?" Email the answer to: oxford@clarendonbc.co.uk and we'll draw the winner on Friday November 15th 2013.

About Clarendon Business Centres Clarendon Business Centres provides emerging and established businesses with friendly, hassle free, and cost-effective office space. Clarendon has grown significantly since 1998, and now supplies serviced, managed and virtual office space with modern and well equipped meeting and conference facilities across Oxfordshire, Bournemouth, Bracknell, Bromley and Poole. Our offices offer instant availability and are fully furnished and cabled. Our flexible approach means that you only pay for space you use, you only commit for the length of term you want, there's no upfront capital expenditure and you can upsize and downsize as needed. Clarendon has a solution for every type of business and every budget, so call us on 0845 0780370.