Ray Mears Invites You To New Event

Ray Mears, survival and bushcraft expert, is encouraging Chineham Park companies to sign up for a new corporate event, the Great Escape Challenge in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care.

The challenge takes 60 corporate teams of four on a head-to-head, multi-sport adventure designed to test the mind, challenge the body and build team spirit. Taking place over the weekend of 21 May 2010 entrants will camp in the stunning backdrop of the Brecon Beacons, the perfect office getaway.

Featuring a series of unique group challenges in a fun and competitive environment, the winning team will depend not simply on fitness levels, but on making smart decisions, thinking laterally and communicating effectively.

The Great Escape Challenge brings a variety of benefits back to the workplace including delegation and team working skills. As an exclusively corporate event, it also presents some serious networking opportunities with companies from across the UK.

Ray Mears said: “I’m urging companies to sign up for Marie Curie Cancer Care’s Great Escape Challenge. It will test teams on a variety of skills and strengths as well as bringing them together. I believe the wilderness is also a great leveller, making this an ideal adventure for companies to go head-to-head on.

“Following the death of my wife to breast cancer, I have seen first hand the wonderful work that Marie Curie Nurses do and the money raised from the Great Escape Challenge will help them to provide free care to patients with terminal cancer and other illnesses in their own homes.”

Companies can enter the Great Escape Challenge in teams of four, with at least two people from the same company. Entry costs just £600 + VAT per team with a minimum fundraising amount of £2,000.

For more information about the Great Escape Challenge or to register your entry, please call 08450 504321 or visit: www.greatescapechallenge.com

Business Park Responds To Survey Results

We had nearly 400 responses to the occupier’s survey that was issued earlier this year and we would like to thank those of you who completed it. From this questionnaire a number of points were raised and we have responded to these by taking the following actions.

Overall, 73% of you thought Chineham Park was a good or great place to work and 82% of you believed the landscaping was good to excellent.

However, a few of you commented about the limited number of benches around the estate. Chineham Park is now intending to create a variety of “outdoor rooms” by the spring of next year so that the environment can be enjoyed more fully when the sun returns!

Several of you noted the approach to the park was only average. Chineham Park is now looking at ways to improve this and you will start to see the results before Christmas.

98% of you mentioned the courtesy coach service ran on time, but despite over 50% of you living within ten miles of the park, the number of you regularly using the courtesy coach has fallen. Therefore Chineham Park will now be upgrading the coaches in early 2010 to encourage more usage.

Those of you who walk to work expressed concern over safety, especially on the public footpath into the park from Hanmore Road via the railway underpass. Chineham Park has now raised this issue with the Chineham Village Security Forum and budgeted for enhanced lighting and a security camera to cover the footpath from the estates boundary.

Finally, 88% of you said the food selection at Dayer’s Fine Foods was good to excellent, but there was room for improvement with the speed of delivery. Chineham Park has been working closely with Dayer’s Fine Foods to undertake a range of measures to improve this and you may already be benefitting from some of the changes.

Congratulations to Jo Hartshorn from Gist who won the £150 gift voucher for Festival Place in the prize draw.

For more information, please email Wendy Fletcher at wfletcher@mepc.com

UKN Group Ltd Relocates to Chineham Park

UKN Group Ltd, a global IT services provider and experts in the innovative use of IT and service management, has relocated to MEPC Chineham Park.

UKN has acquired a lease on a building totaling over 4,000 sqft in the Lindenwood area of the park, following continued business growth and expansion.

Michael Eaton, chief executive officer for UKN Group Limited, said: “We were looking for prestigious accommodation in a business park with excellent transport links and amenities to enable us to grow our business.

“The relocation of our head office to Chineham Park has provided us with the positive business environment that will facilitate further success for our business and its people.”

Rupert Batho, managing director for MEPC Chineham Park, said: “It is a pleasure to welcome UKN Group Limited to Chineham Park, where we wish them every success.

“To date we have welcomed more new businesses to the park than we did in the whole of 2008 and we are on track to achieve more key lettings before the end of the year.”

Picture shows from left to right: Michael Eaton, chief executive officer for UKN Group Limited and Paul Foster, sales manager for UKN Group Limited.

Chineham Park Celebrates Summer Party Success

Chineham Park is celebrating the success of its Mexican themed summer party held on Friday 31 July 2009 between 12h00 and 14h00.

The annual fun day, in the Spindlewood area of the park, was free to attend for all those working on Chineham Park.

Jo Szegota, asset manager for MEPC Chineham Park, said: “Chineham Park is home to over 40 organisations and the summer party is a great opportunity for occupiers to interact with neighbouring businesses.

“It is our way of giving something back to these organisations to thank them for making Chineham Park such a great place to work.”

Party-goers tucked into Tex-Mex inspired cuisine including chilli, fajitas and burritos and took part in a competition to see who could stay on a bucking bronco the longest.

Here’s what a few of the guests said about this year’s event:
“The Tex-Mex lunch was lovely, I can only imagine the amount of organisation that goes into making such events happen.”
Julie Andrews, supply management administrator for Gist Ltd.

Sue Keen, head of corporate services for UKN Group Ltd, said: “On behalf of all our staff, I would like to thank the Chineham Park team for the Lunch and entertainment on Friday.

“It was very well received and there were lots of compliments on the organisation and the food.”

More photographs from the event are available on Parklife.

Postjet Systems moves into offices on Chineham Park

Postjet Systems Ltd, the leading provider of inkjet print solutions for the postal sorting industry around the world, has moved to MEPC Chineham Park.

Postjet has acquired a lease on a building totaling over 3,000 sqft in the Beechwood area of the park, following an unprecedented growth in business.

Norman Alger, service and operations manager for Postjet Systems Ltd, said: “We decided to move to Chineham Park because it meets the requirements of our business development plan.

“Postjet has grown significantly in the last year and we believe that Chineham Park has the facilities to manage any future expansion and fulfill our business needs.”

Jo Szegota, asset manager for MEPC Chineham Park, said: “We are delighted to welcome Postjet Systems Ltd to Chineham Park. They are a dynamic, growing company and we wish them every success.

“In the first six months of this year we have welcomed more new businesses to the park than we did in the whole of 2008 and we are on track to achieve more key lettings before the year end.”

Basingstoke Wins Best Office Award

Basingstoke’s newest office building, Central 40 at Chineham Park, has been announced as the winner of the Commercial Workplace Award in the British Council for Offices (BCO) South West and South Wales category.

Established in 1990, the British Council for Offices is Britain's leading forum for the discussion and debate of issues affecting the office sector and their awards scheme is recognised as the pre-eminent benchmark for measuring excellence in workplaces. The awards programme also acknowledges innovation and focuses external attention on examples of best practice.

MEPC Chineham Park’s Central 40 beat a record number of entries with the judges commenting that the winning building embraced sustainable practices 'as standard', alongside delivering an exceptionally high occupier experience.

Patrick Morrisey, BCO Judging Chair for the South West and South Wales, added: "Our winner embodies the emergence of two particularly important patterns in best practice building design and development. Firstly, it illustrates that sustainability is now firmly embedded at the core of the vast majority of building briefs. This is evidence of the fact that environmentally friendly properties are now well established in almost all property sectors and geographies in the UK, which is hugely encouraging. Secondly, the winner has demonstrated how the design and finished building can have a great and beneficial impact on the end user occupier experience.”

Rupert Batho, managing director for MEPC Chineham Park, said; “” This is an outstanding result for us as it confirms MEPC Chineham Park’s position as a leader in our field. The Corporate and Social Responsibility agenda is growing, and Central 40 is now recognised as a building that combines functional quality with society’s increasing important environmental requirements. The building is designed to be occupied by one or more companies. Therefore organisations employing between 40 and 400 staff have the opportunity to benefit from the associated cost saving and environmental features of this office’s design. It is a great honour that Central 40 is now officially recognised as the best office space in the region.”

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