Reducing the amount of time you spend on non-essential activities can help ensure your focus remains on profit generation. Moving to managed campus removes this headache and creates more time to concentrate on continued growth.
Whether directing tenants, handling maintenance, or providing information, the Chamber will go the extra mile to add value to your business.
Friars Mill is managed by East Midlands Chamber (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire). You’ll find Chamber, Business Gateway and Local Enterprise Partnership staff on site.
Ask us how we can help you reduce costs, find, train and retain the best people. Drop in to discuss overseas business expansion, taking on an intern or to sound out a business development idea. In short, use our resources for non-core activities so you can focus on what you do best.
In addition to practical intercom facilities to manage entry and exit of visitors, when you move in, we’ll give you enough entry fobs for each member of your team. Your fobs provide more than access to our premises. They provide you with 24 hour security for your space, your team and all of your fellow tenants.
Hi-tech city-working isn’t usually associated with a waterside location that may generate a calming effect, or leafy green spaces that enable the opportunity to see nature at close quarters. But that’s exactly what Friars Mill offers.
The extensive use of glass allows light to flood your workspace, and re-glazed original waterside windows frame the ever-changing natural landscape will undoubtedly inspire you while you work.
Visitors and employees will be able to take advantage of an outdoor space too - be it sitting on the patio outside the Boiler House with a coffee or enjoying the communal spaces at breaks.
Friars Mill is a ten-minute stroll from Leicester’s thriving city centre. From the banks and big name stores you’d expect to the quirky independents you’ll discover in St Martins Square, it’s easy to fit in a lunchtime shopping spree.
Then there are many options for socialising. From the familiar chain restaurants of High Cross via the ethnically diverse eateries of Leicester’s Golden Mile to the thriving bars and cafes around Curve theatre and Phoenix independent cinema in the city’s Cultural Quarter.
A Friars Mill location makes public transport even more convenient for staff and visitors alike.
The centre is an easy 20 minute walk from Leicester Railway Station with frequent services to London (1hr 10min), Nottingham (30 min), Birmingham (56 min).
Nearby bus routes connect to Park & Ride sites at Birstall and Enderby and services to Coventry, Nuneaton and Hinckley are a short distance walk away.
Friars Mill supports Leicester City Council’s commitment to sustainable transport, so we’ve installed ample cycle parking as well as shower, changing and locker facilities for anyone who cycles (or runs) to work. You can even arrive by boat, using one of our moorings.
On a main artery into the city, Friars Mill is easily accessible from London, the West Midlands and the North. We’re just four miles from J21 of the M1 and M69, and a comfortable half hour by road from East Midlands Airport.
Our 52 parking spaces are allocated according the size of space you lease. Reserve your space(s) for the convenience of visitors or reward key team members with their own spot.
For everyone else, we’ve negotiated discount parking just a three minutes’ walk from the centre.
Your fully-managed internet service comes courtesy of a dedicated fibre connection delivered by the contracted technology supplier. Running at speeds up to 200Mbps, and with headroom for expansion, you can to take advantage of the very latest cloud based services.
Friars Mill’s feature-rich telephony offers voicemail, call diverts, time-based routing and much more. It’s fully scalable too so whether you need a single phone to get you started or a phone on every desk with a virtual switchboard, we’ll set you up.
The excellent mobile coverage of our city location combined with fast, free-access wifi in meeting rooms and reception areas means tenants and visitors can be always connected.
One of the benefits of managed workspace is the potential to forge relationships with other tenants. Sharing experiences could lead to insight, knowledge and opportunities to work together which could help your business to flourish and reach its goals faster.
Friars Mill has been designed with shared kitchens and conversation spaces to create informal connections. When you’re ready, you can take advantage of our meeting rooms to explore your collaboration further.