Case studies

Our business centres are home to a thriving and resilient community of small businesses, start-ups and SMEs drawn from a diverse spectrum of professions. Find out more about our small business customers, their growth, successes, aspirations and tips.

Nurturing office space for an ambitious care organisation
A supportive, nurturing base in the high-quality workspaces at Milton Keynes Business Centre gave registered manager of Peach Care Services Elvis Idegbekwu the confidence to rebrand, relaunch and set ambitious, innovative long-term targets for his enterprise.
A beautiful business by Natasha Turner
New mothers are used to sleepless nights, but Natasha Turner, a beauty therapist in our Kings Hill, admits that launching her new business two weeks after giving birth to her first child didn’t help. After hearing this story, we felt it was imperative to interview Natasha Turner to hear her…
How two buddies became business partners
Ever since starting off in a pension’s advice call centre over ten years ago, Luke Adams and Daniel Bowles have been virtually inseparable throughout their working lives. Today, they find themselves successful directors of a thriving business- a business that has changed their perspectives of why they launched it in…
ProKleen leads the way with new Cleaning Academy
ProKleen has been providing high-quality commercial cleaning services for over 18 years, and the changing needs of their clients during the Covid-19 pandemic have increased demand for its services. We spoke to ProKleen’s Managing Director, Tim Martlew to find out how the company has responded to unpredictable recent events and…
Fortune favoured the brave
Leaving behind a secure job and diving head-first into a new business isn’t for the faint-hearted but we are pleased to report that it’s proved to be a great decision for Greenway Business Centre customer Oliver Fortune. We spoke to the young entrepreneur about his journey so far. The seven-year…
E-bikes for everybody!
Despite the disruption and uncertainty of 2020, record numbers of new businesses were launched during the pandemic. One of those was the innovative electric bike company, Gron. Chris Collinge, a Capital Space customer at Milton Keynes Business Centre, set up the eco-friendly business in April last year with colleague…
Business Planning with Stretch
It’s a brand-new year, and the perfect time to take on the sometimes-tedious task of business planning. But creating a business plan is not about the planning process, it’s about the results that are delivered by implementing the tasks contained in that plan.
Meet the architects of website design
We all have our reasons for taking the plunge and setting up our very own business. For Joe Gilbert, it was the ongoing frustration of dealing with web design agencies that inspired the former marketing manager to create his web design agency, Red Giraffe.
Providing security in an unpredictable world
With over 25 years’ experience as bailiffs and security consultants, MS Webb & Co were confident they’d seen it all, but these past months have been far from predictable!

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Our VoiP telephony solution is available for all businesses – either onsite or offsite – and means you can handle calls via a desktop, mobile app or traditional handset. Better still, it is available on a simple, monthly licence, meaning you are not constrained by restrictive, long term contracts.

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