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How much colour has your world got? We love adding colour to ours! »

We often talk about life at lingfield, our creative and unique office space and the atmosphere around of neighhbourhood.

But how do we achieve this? Colour plays an important part in achieving a sense of community – just look at the success of Dulux’s global community intitiative – Let’s Colour.  We love the kaliedoscope of colour – you’ll see it around every corner here at Lingfield Point – its a fundemental part of our art strategy but also in the way we design our offices.  Colour provides a subtle statement and the beauty of colour means you can choose the statement you want to make.

The colours used around our creative office space across the 107 acre business park make bold statements – we’re creative; we’re productive & most importantly we’re a community!

Fun with colour and inspirational statements add life to lingfield

 

YARN – our latest office space based in Lingfield House – uses the colour red to the maximum – and is one of the busiest and creative locations in our neighbourhood. Even our corridors around our buildings don’t escape treatment – again YARN painted in a dark grey now feels shorter – a great trick – and with the beautiful white yarn now installed makes a great statement that also pays homage to our historic links with Patons and Baldwins.

Bold colours work well with contrast – YARN at Lingfield Point

Take stroll across to the national award-winning Student Loans  Company where you’ll find great use of the colour green – in every variation- all helping to made this hard-working, pressurised environment feel calm, easy and stable.

Green is an important colour at the award-winning Student Loans Company

Our external areas don’t escape a touch of colour either – take tickle me – a great piece of artwork full of colour but also our most recent poster campaign – bright statements backed up with colour encouraging people to feel proud of the work they do and the environment they work in – all wrapped up in a cheeky statement or two.

Tickle me!

 

They’ve made such a difference to our neighbourhood – watch this space where even more will appear soon.

 

We love colour – it lights up our life here at Lingfield!

If you’re a business wanting more colour in your world – give us a call on 01325 486486 – we can certainly provide a colourful backdrop for your business -  in the shape and size you need from 250sqft.

 

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Bringing life alive at Lingfield – our new social calendar is out now »

Spring has finally arrived – and just in time too as we launch our new events calendar.

Packed with events, promotions and social shindigs – it’s a great way of getting know your colleagues, learning new skills or getting to know our neighbourhood a wee bit better.

We’re proud to be welcome Teesside University as our higher education partner who have programmed a whole range of events helping you to expand your horizons – adding to existing skills or even tasting something new and more creative.  Look out for the digital photography class or the creative writing class to get inspired this Spring.

We’re also welcoming back our happy fit camps – getting fit with a giggle has never been funnier and our new Stash Busting Surgeries from our artist in residence – Becky Sunter from Tabby Textiles – is bound to be a sure-fire hit.  She’ll be showing us how to make your clutter into classic gifts with a bit of inspiration.  So get spring cleaning – clear out your craft clutter – and let’s get out there and have some fun!

For more information on these events, feel free to log onto the events section of www.lingfieldlife.co.uk or

follow us on facebook at lingfieldpoint – a great way of keeping in touch and getting involved.

 

 

 

 

 

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Love is in the air at Lingfield Point »

With over 50 businesses and 2,500 lovely people now based in and around our neighbourhood – we love the month of February enabling us to show the world how much we care.  

From creating unique office space for your business, to entertaining and enlightening your staff with a nod to increasing productivity, or joining in with the Darlington Cares initiative we love our life at lingfield.

 

Loving life at Lingfield

Our monthly programme of events and promotions focus on the feel-good factor, helping us to love our mind, body and soul.

 

Look out for our special taster sessions with soothing and soulful therapies on the menu – tempting you to learn new skills with Teesside University or love the way you travel with Localmotion.

You can even hand in your old bike – and we can love it better with Bike Stop and our ever-popular bike amnesty or pamper yourself with a treat from My Little Beauty – our exclusive mobile beauty salon.

 

Don’t forget our regular knitting café now back every Wednesday with our artist in residence, Tabby Textiles at canteen.  There’s also our regular express weightwatchers meeting every Thursday in YARN – helping you love how you feel about your body.

 

Loving your life – mind, body and soul – at Lingfield

For more information on what’s going on at Lingfield point, check our online events calendar

don’t forget to follow us on twitter @lingfieldpoint or find us on facebook at lingfieldlife.

 

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We’re loving the feel good factor thanks to Festival of Thrift »

Always keen to provide some feel good factor to our customers and visitors alike, we’re starting to get excited at the prospect of the Festival of Thrift taking place in our community.

 

The excitement builds around Festival of Thrift

Providing inspiration through showcasing much-loved skills in making and upcycling clothes and furniture, knitting, weaving as well as growing your own fruit and veg, we’re looking forward to teaming up with design hero Wayne Hemingway to bring you ‘Festival of Thrift’.

After a preview to establish interest, we’ve been delighted with the excitement and support its received.  It’s not really surprising, thrifty thinking is all the rage and with us all feeling the pitch, this dip into a more conscious and sustainable way of living is certainly something right up our street.

Our very own John Orchard and the inspirational Wayne Hemingway, tell us more on why this event should be the highlight of your year in 2013.

 

Loving life at Lingfield!

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Lingfield Point team up with Wayne Hemingway to bring you Festival of Thrift in Darlington »

 

We’re proud to announce that we have teamed up with design hero Wayne Hemingway MBE to stage the world’s first Festival of Thrift at Lingfield Point, Darlington.

We’re proud to announce our latest venture!

 

Since Hemingway Design enjoyed a recent tour around Lingfield Point – probably one of the biggest upcycling projects in the UK – we’ve been working together thinking about how we can harness our creativity to celebrate upcycling both on a grand scale – as Lingfield Point demonstrates – through to how we – as individuals – can make easy changes to help our home (and impact on the environment!)

The Festival will showcase skills in making and upcycling clothes and furniture, knitting, weaving as well as growing your own fruit and veg. There will also be an area called ‘money saving tips around the home’ which will feature simple ways to save energy. Marchday’s John Orchard explains:

We’re all really excited about this; we’ve never been involved in a festival before but with our location, ease of access and range of people now working on site – it’s going to be quite an event. 

It’s great to be working with Wayne, who has been arranging high-profile, successful festivals for some time now.

Yes, the Festival of Thrift will showcase many of the core values of Lingfield Point……but the main purpose will be to have fun!

We hope it will show people what a creative town Darlington is and what a fantastic quality of life people enjoy here.

The festival will take place in late summer this year.

Date to be released soon so watch this space!

 

For regular updates and catch up on what’s happening around Lingfield Point, follow us on twitter @lingfieldpoint or find us on facebook at lingfieldlife.

 

 

 

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Wonderful Winter Workshops at Lingfield Point »

We were thrilled to learn that we had managed to bag ourselves a fantastic artist in residence, aka Becky Sunter from Tabby Textiles - our very own keen felter and knitting enthusiast!

Here at Lingfield Point, Darlington, we aim to provide the very best facilities for all of the employees occupying our unique office space so it’s perfect to have Becky on site, cozied up in Unit 21, as part of the Lingfield Life package!

Ensuring culture is woven through everything that goes on at Lingfield Point, Becky runs the popular Knitting Café on Monday evenings and Stitching Knitwits classes every Wednesday lunchtime in canteen alongside providing an occasional yarnbombing explosion.

Getting ready for the season to be jolly, Becky also has some great seasonal and festive workshops up her woolly sleeve for you to get stuck into.

Becky Knitting Away Surrounded by her Woolly Goodies!

The first wintery workshop Tabby Textiles is showcasing is ‘Weave a Winter Scarf in a Day’ on 28 November and 5 December – an ideal introduction to knitting for all you first-time weavers to create a truly unique Christmas pressie for someone special!

On Thursday 29 November make sure you get stuck into the ‘Felt Bag Making Project’, more suited to the intermediate felter, providing an opportunity to perfect your skills by making a seamless felt bag with tradition felt-making skills.

Finally on Thursday 6 December Tabby Textiles will be hosting a ‘Felt Christmas Decoration-Making Class’, suitable for all – no matter what your felting level of expertise! Popping along to this workshop will allow you to create your very own, unique decorations to hang on the Christmas tree as well as gorgeous gift tags and unique gift ideas!

There are only limited places so we suggest you snap yours up quickly before they all disappear! Classes range from £45-£55 and run from 10.00am until 3.00pm.

In keeping with our green and sustainable ethos here at Lingfield Point, Tabby Textiles steer clear of machinery techniques and stick to the good old traditional methods using locally farmed wool and other materials and equipment – all of which will be available on the day!

A good old cuppa will also be available but it would be a good idea to being your own lunch – should you get peckish after your morning of hard felting and weaving graft.

So – get seasonal and imaginative with those creative hands! Secure your place in at least one of these wintery workshops by calling Becky on either 01325480370 or 07550002773 or drop her an email on becky.sunter@o2.co.uk.

For more information about the exciting winter events and activities we have lined up

for you this Christmas please visit www.lingfieldpoint.co.uk or like our

Lingfield Life Facebook page for all the up-to-date shenanigans!

 

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Lingfield Life is Alive and Kicking on Facebook! »

Here at Lingfield Point, Darlington, we are keen to get not just our 50+ businesses that have chosen to base themselves in our office space, but anyone and everyone in the know about Lingfield Life and just how good it really is!

Come and Join our Neighbourhood..

So, we are now up and running on Facebook and we would like to provide you with a few top tips in how to get the best from our page and also a little incentive as to why you might want to ‘like’ us…

As soon as you have hit that ‘LIKE’ button you are immediately welcomed into the world or Lingfield Life. Our Facebook page provides you with more than just some basic information about us as a business park – it allows you to interact with everything we are up to including events, activities, blogs, recent news and much, much more.

You can keep up to date with our regular blogs and tweets, informing all our followers about what is going on in our neighbourhood. Our most recent examples include our newly bagged artist in residence and our celebratory gift to spread the love to all of our customers – spearmint flavoured Lingfield Life rock!

Our Facebook page also provides you with an at-a-glance guide to what is going on including an up to date list of all of the unique events that take place within our community – from Vintage Tea Dances with Naafi or Bike Amnesty to promote one of our ethical endorsements: sustainability.

The Lingfield Life Facebook page also provides you with our recent offers and information about our offices with soul – what we have available that will best suit you and your business’s requirements.

Get Involved and Get Liking!

It is a fantastic way of reaching new customers and demonstrating how we are unique to other office space providers. We don’t just sell office space – well sell a lifestyle. A family friendly, all-inclusive neighbourhood complete with a ‘Little Lingfields’ nursery and canteen run by Alexander MacMurray open to both our customers and the public. If its culture and character you are after – Lingfield Life is the lifestyle for you!

The power is in your hands – literally! Move that mouse and get clicking,

because without your LIKES we cannot spread our love!

 

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Lingfield Point Bags Artist in Residence! »

Here at Lingfield Point we aim to offer our customers the best facilities in the region so when we had chance to appoint an artist in residence as part of the Lingfield Life experience we could not resist!

Lingfield Point in Darlington already boasts a list of ‘extras’ in addition to its fantastic office spaces and public art, from on-site child care and stylish ‘canteen’ to lifestyle and fitness classes. 

"Knit One, Pearl One, Knit One..."

Now Becky Sunter, of Tabby Textiles, has been appointed as artist in residence to ensure that culture is woven through everything that goes on at Lingfield Point. Becky has more than 20 years’ experience in the textiles industry and was thrilled to be asked to take on the role.

“I am incredibly flattered to be asked to take on this role. It’s a big compliment to be asked to publicly showcase my skills.”

Becky has always had a passion for textiles and fabrics and set up Tabby Textiles seven years ago. After seeing how much work she’d been doing in the local community, running classes and workshops Lingfield Point decided she’d be just the right person to take on the role.

Great Coverage in PropertyWeek!

Becky wants to spread the word about the art of textiles to everyone from children and beginners to more experienced people. She already takes the ‘Stitching Knitwits’ classes held at Lingfield Point each Wednesday.

Aware that Lingfield Point is all about sustainability Becky will be using handmade tools of the trade rather than mechanical where ever possible.

“We’re surrounded by farms in Darlington and what better way to support the local community and be sustainable than to work with wool.”

Eddie Humphries, Estate Manager, said: “We are delighted to have an artist in residence. Anyone who knows us will know art is a big aspect of the community here at Lingfield Point, so having someone here to permanently drive that message is something we are proud of.

“Becky is a great example of how we can further the idea of sustainability, by creating home-made items which can last for years.”

Not only were we thrilled to have bagged ourselves an artist in residence but we were also chuffed to receive fantastic coverage about our latest arrival in both regional and national press including in PropertyWeek.com, The Evening Gazette and nebusiness.co.uk!

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The Power of Art WILL Make A Difference to Your Workplace! »

Lingfield Point is well-known for its love of art and businesses that take office space here appreciate the difference art can make when brightening up a neighbourhood.

We believe that customers needing office space in Darlington choose our business park – not just for the location but for the quality of life – our neighbourhood is well-known for its culture and character.  Art plays a major role in our culture with a positive impact on our 2000+ employees based here.

Sharing this enthusiasm is something we enjoy and we love the fact that art is celebrated (and treasured) across the Tees Valley.

One of our favourite places for inspiration is the exciting, contemporary location, mima, where their outreach schemes for both business and bods alike simply takes our breath away.

Mima (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) is a gallery of modern and contemporary art based in the North-East in Middlesbrough and they are offering a new opportunity to have original, gallery-quality art on your walls with their new collection loans scheme. This opportunity allows you to borrow contemporary, original artwork for your space –whether public or private.

They believe that hanging their original mima art upon your walls in your building sends all the right messages to your clients, staff and anyone else entering neighbourhood. This is due to their art speaking volumes about your company’s ethical values and high aspirations.

So, mima‘s original artwork is not just a pretty picture.

 

Our Futurescope 'Lamb', an exampe of art here at Lingfield Point

Mima suggest having their art in your building states that you care for the environment you work in, you want to invest in your staff’s development, you value creativity and innovation and your organisation supports mima, a colourful institution that is making a difference to the local economy.

It is evident that mima’s ethical and creative values intertwine with many of ours here at Lingfield Point.

Mima believe in the power of great art to inspire change and make a positive contribution to people’s lives.  The power of art will make a difference to your organisation by giving you new opportunities to engage with your clients, staff and guests on a range of topics, other than core business.

To see what is currently available check out their catalogue!

 

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Award-Winning Art at Lingfield Point! »

One of our big passions is art and here at Lingfield Point we have a number of thought-provoking public artworks.

There’s Futurescope, a series of 45ft circular images as well as art in surprising places: a lightbox in an underground walkway, our ‘yarnbombed’ trees and ‘signage’ and a bingo-inspired graffiti in one of the many car parks.

Our Futurescope 'Skep' looking over the North East corner at Lingfield Point

Art is just one of the things that make us the best place to go for office space in Darlington.

So it was with great pleasure that we attended The Sponsors’ Club 21st birthday dinner and awards. The Sponsors’ Club promotes partnerships between culture and commerce in the North East.

Held at the Great North Museum: Hancock, it was grandly titled ‘A night at the museum’ and it certainly lived up to expectations. We enjoyed fantastic company, delicious food and live entertainment from a rather good amateur band of Newcastle’s lawyers. The charitable auction and raffle raised an impressive figure for The Sponsors’ Club’s new fund to support culture in the North East.

One of our Yarn Bombing explosions at Lingfield Point

But really, our highlight was the awards.

Prior to the evening’s festivities The Sponsors’ Club had called for nominations for cultural champions from the business world, businesses which engaged with and made a significant contribution to the region’s arts.

As befitting the 21st birthday dinner, The Sponsors’ Club honoured 21 businesses and individuals, announcing the shortlist in the form of a cryptic poem, which left us guessing, but pretty sure that we had been selected!

We had! And we received a delightful little award that now has pride of place in our office, as well as having our photo taken with the other patrons.

Bingo-Style Graffiti at Centrepoint Square, Lingfield Point

All in all a fantastic celebration of art in the region that raised money for future cultural initiatives – and which we’re looking forward to being a part of.

 
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