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Lingfield Joggers get on track to better health »

PEOPLE working at Darlington’s award-winning Lingfield Point will be able to take the track to jog their way to fitness – after putting their bodies through a mini MOT.

The business park -  well known for creative office space to rent in Darlington- launched its new jogging trail after teaming up with charity Diabetes UK to celebrate the event.

Lingfield Point's new jogging trail is now available

We think that keeping fit is an important part of daily life, and our jogging track is designed to offer the opportunity and encourage our customers here at Lingfield Point to enjoy some healthy exercise.

We’re proud to have created a unique partnership with Diabetes UK, helping us launch our new jogging track as well as to promote awareness of diabetes type 2, which can be related to an unhealthy lifestyle.

Eddie Humphries, our estate manager, was one of the first to be assessed, “We’ve offered our Lingfield Point people ‘mini MOTs’ to find out if they could be at risk and what they can do about it including measuring body mass index.  Diabetes UK have also been giving people tips on how to live a healthy lifestyle, including recipes and menus.  Joining forces with Lighterlife, one of Lingfield Point’s latest customers, customers also received advice on healthy eating and slimming.”

The Student Loans Company’s Anthony Hill and Donna Slater bravely volunteered to run a circuit of the jogging track before having their BMI measured.

Student Loans Company is now the biggest employer based at Lingfield Point where more than 50 companies and 2,000 people are now based.

DSA manager Anthony said: “Diabetes type 2 is a growing issue in this country, and can have serious implications for people who suffer from it. Taking regular exercise is just one of the many things you can do to help make sure you avoid this difficult and life-changing condition.

“But the last thing we want to do is sound preachy – that’s why we are so pleased that Lingfield Point has come up with this fun way of taking a bit of exercise and getting the message across.

Our fitness camps - complete with giggles

”Lingfield Point has already launched successful Happy Boot Camp which is proving very popular with our staff and are just very enjoyable, where people get together to exercise and have a laugh.”

Eddie said: “We’ll be inviting Diabetes UK back to the business park during Diabetes Week from June 10 – 16 to do some follow-ups and find out how people are doing in their efforts to improve their health.”

 

*More information about Diabetes UK is available at www.diabetes.org.uk.

 

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Godfathers of (offices with) Soul! »

We’re always keen to hear how our offices to rent in Darlington – and services – are being received by our customers. A recent survey produced a comment which really made us think.

When asked why they liked their offices at Lingfield Point so much our customer replied “Because they have soul.”

Offices with Soul…..  there’s something you don’t get every day!

So what is it that gives one building soul and another none? We concluded that part of this must be to do with the building’s heritage; when a building has very obviously had a previous life (in Lingfield Point’s case a wool factory) and when that past is celebrated in its present form the result can be very special. Another ingredient of offices with soul must be the amount of love and attention to detail lavished on its creation and crucial aftercare.

Marchday – owners of Lingfield Point -  don’t create average offices – just look around our neighbourhood or take a peak at the offices at New Lodge, Windsor (www.newlodge.co.uk). Set in 55 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds this Victorian Manor House was built in 1857 and just oozes soul.

“Basing your business at Lingfield Point is more than a business decision, it’s a lifestyle choice.” says John Orchard, Director at Marchday, “Where else can you work wirelessly, surrounded by beautiful art, stimulating games or enjoying a peaceful escape in a vintage retro snug? ”

So there you are – soul just one of the differences that make our offices just a little bit better than the rest!

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We’re buzzin’ about art »

Two of our big passions here at Lingfield Point are art and the environment and our newest Futurescopeinstallation highlights that in a BIG way.

Futurescope's latest image at Lingfield Point

 

The thought-provoking, head-turning image ‘Skep’ – all 45 ft of it – looks down from our North East corner and will be seen by thousands of motorists each day.

Our artists Christian Barnes and John Kennedy from Vista Projects  are reluctant to try to explain the concept – preferring to allow people to come up with their own theories – and we’d love to hear all about them.

The image shows a man with a ‘Skep’ – a traditional beehive – on his head surrounded by beekeeping equipment – very appropriate as Lingfield Point has its own hives and harvests its own honey.

Lingfield Point offers much more than the best office space in Darlington it offers a way of life that makes it much more interesting, exciting and pleasant to go to work every day.

Art is integral to Lingfield Life and we believe it is all about generating interest and conversation, Skep will certainly do that.

We see Lingfield Point as our own 107 acre gallery and you’ll find lots of art dotted about both inside and outside helping to make Lingfield Point somewhere our customers just LOVE to work.

 

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Life at Lingfield – Sewing the seeds of love for a blooming lovely environment »

WE’VE a great environment to base your business with great office space available in Darlington  – but did you also know you’ve got a great environment for your staff to bloom too?

Spring into Summer at Lingfield Point

With a great social calendar and employee support – including great transport links – we’re always keen to welcome new colleagues, friends and visitors whether its for business or pleasure.  Our latest events are based around preparing the ground for a blooming good Summer!

With our allotments now in place, we can now turn our attention to our herb garden outside of the delicious on-site cafe – canteen by alexandar macmurray.  Tasty herbs to garnish that add flavour to our lives are now available for people snip and enjoy – with recipes also available for inspiration in the vintage snug.

If you fancy creating your own home herb garden, why not visit canteen on 24 April where our gardening team from Integritas Landscapes will be able to give advice on how to create this simple little attention to life.  With delicious results!

Enjoy garden herbs

Adding colour and life to Lingfield is our simple aim and gardening is close to our heart.  We’re keen to hear your tips and advice on how to survive the last remaining frosts and the deluge of April showers….. Our tips include:

  • Keep new shoots protected at night
  • Leave tender bedding until May – its too tempting to fill your garden with colour now but Jack Frost is still very much around
  • Deadhead daffodils and narsissus, give them a liquid feed or sprinkling of bonemeal and then let them die down. Don’t cut off the leaves as they are necessary to replenish the bulb for next year.
  • Keep deadheading spring bedding to keep it looking neat and encourage new flowers.
  • Continue with the spring cleaning. Hoe your borders, getting rid of weeds before they take hold and continue to mulch away – tease with a cheeky bit of fertiliser to encourage growth!
  • Carry on removing moss and weeds from paths, terraces and drives.
  • Clean and repair your garden tools, perfect for Sunday afternoon when April showers hit!
  • Look out for slugs and snails. They love tulips and delicacies such as the delicious young shoots of delphiniums and the like, so use pet-friendly slug pellets, drench the ground around hostas with liquid slug killer to exterminate slugs below the surface.
  • Keep an eye out for snails and pick them off – what you do with them is up to you. Birds are your friends here – flat stones artfully located are useful accessories for birds to practise their snail bashing techniques.

With these tips and handy advice with our gardening team – get ready for a unique summer of celebration.  For more information or want a copy of our events calendar, feel free to get in touch with one of us at the management suite on 01325 486486 or download from the link below.

 

 

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Our latest customer – Herman the friendship cake! »

For those of you with school age children, you may have come across Herman and he’s happily arrived at Lingfield Point.

Lingfield Point represents office space in Darlington but we’re so much more than than that!  We think of Lingfield Point as a neighbourhood of friends and colleagues rather than offices and Herman has settled right in helping to bond teams, create conversations and even swop tips on how to nurture this fine fella and bring him alive with different recipe tales!

Herman, is in fact, a weird concoction handed out in the school playground or around friends to celebrate friendship. A perfect home here at Lingfield Point.  Unable to be purchased, it’s the equivalent of a chain letter – but – it’s far easier and he provides you with very tasty results!

Say hello to Herman

So how did Herman arrive?  Did he come by the new bus service? Car share with friends or walk in?  Nope, he came in a tub … with a very traditional and old time instruction sheet telling me to talk to him (for those that know me… they know that this is far from difficult!)….. stir and nurture every day for 10 days before breaking up into 4 sections and then giving away 3 and cooking the rest…… So instead of chain letter.. think chain cake!

It’s a great way of nurturing the long lost art of working with yeast and more importantly providing something of substance for the younger ones to enjoy – developing patience and an understanding the art of cooking with real ingredients.  In fact, there’s been so much chatting in our house, Herman’s become part of the family – with a delicious contribution back!

The name Herman is taken from the Amish – sweet, cinnamon-flavoured bread – taken from the early American pioneers. The current Herman revival is gathering momentum and with the help of online mums groups; and the rise of a wide range of online networks we think its great to help and encourage people to are being encouraged to waste less and share more.

In summary, Herman has bought great fun into our world, its taught us to look at real ingredients and do something we don’t do very often… watch our waste and share surplus food!  In these times of stupidly over-packaged products… its a great way of getting back to making and sharing!

I think we’ll continue to watch our waste and sadly, given the results of this tasty cake, we’ll be watching our waistline too!

Let us know if you fancy meeting and making Herman…..

We can certainly provide you with a tub of this sticky stuff!

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Spring into Summer with our new event calendar – now available »

With over 2000 people now working in our unique office space in Darlington, we also like to provide a unique experience to match.

New events calendar - out now

We’re keen on ensuring that colleagues get the best from their life at Lingfield Point so we’ve developed a Summer calendar – packed full of events, promotions and entertainment throughout the coming months.

To get you in the mood, look out for our Life at Lingfield event calendar – download below or pop into one of our many break out areas and pick up a leaflet.

We’re welcoming Choc Choc Hurray on 4/5 April in canteen where you’ll be able to taste chocolate from a chocolate fountain and experience the production of chocolate first hand. With tasty treats also available to buy, you can also experience the more unusual flavours from around the globe. Look out for the exquisite chocolate shoes – beautiful to look at but even better to eat!

Enjoying Easter could have a detrimental effect on the waistline, so we’re also pleased to announce that our fitness boot camps and exercise classes are making a welcome return with a twist.

Our new look boot camp

Lingfield Point’s happy fit camp is a cheeky take on the fitness boot camps of the past. Always full of smiles but with a force to be reckoned with, you can enjoy this challenge from 18 April and watch your waist reappear – just in time for the summer sun.

For people that prefer a more relaxed lingfield life, why not look out for our new monthly textile masterclasses – helping you to get crafty or even join our new knitting group – Stitching Knitwits – meeting in canteen every Wednesday from 25 April.

So what are you waiting for – come and enjoy life at Lingfield!

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Yarn Graffiti – bringing it alive at Lingfield Point! »

We just love the brilliant and unique concept of yarn bombing!  The beauty and unique sensation of creating something special using yarn is a simple joy. It challenges and changes the urban landscape one stitch at a time.

The simple love of YARN

We’ve kept our long association with yarn alive through everything we do.  Darlington – and Lingfield Point’s – latest office space is called YARN – now brimming over with new customers.

Spinning a Yarn this Spring

Lingfield Point has historical links with yarn – having been built by Paton and Baldwins as a flagship manufacturing base for the world famous knitting yarn company.  At over 2million sq ft – our 107 acre neighbourhood was – we think – the largest wool factory in the world.

We were over the moon to see the Olympic inspired yarn bomb appear along the railing of Saltburn Pier. These cute little figures included athletes from sports ranging from swimming, weightlifting, football and even volley ball.  Just brilliant!

We love textiles  so much, we’re developing a whole range of masterclasses and groups to provide ways of creating a landscape that inspires.  First up is our new knitting group with Tabby Textiles.

Regular knitting sessions on Wednesdays

‘Stitching Knitwits’ will meet every Wednesday lunchtime here at Lingfield Point and if you look closely enough around our neighbourhood – don’t be surprised to see more creative and unique yarn bombs appear as time goes by.

For more inspriration on this fascinating subject, log on to www.yarnbombing.com or you could even join us on a Wednesday lunchtime – get in touch and we’ll tell you how!

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Buzzing around – Lingfield Point’s bees know how to keep the cold out! »

The ground may be solid and the snowdrops bring a welcome touch of colour to gardens and grounds of Lingfield Point but our bees are taking the weather reports seriously and are staying inside their hives for warmth. 

Bees huddle inside hives during Winter

Honey bees traditionally stop flying when the temperature drops down in Winter.  Staying inside, they huddle together inside their hives making a ‘winter cluster’ . With few flowers in bloom, there is no point to flying outside of the hive, hence no pollen or nectar is available and the cold could kill them. The colder the outside temperature, the more compact the cluster becomes.

Clustering is a great idea – the objective being to simply keep warm – so warm in fact – the temperature in the centre of this cluster, where the Queen Bee stays, is kept at about 80 (F). The outer edge of the cluster is about 46 to 48 (F).

The worker bees create heat by shivering and they also move back and forth between the inner part of the cluster and the outer part.  We think that this is a great example of a community working together, thinking of each other and sharing with the ultimate aim – keeping the cold at bay!

Here at Lingfield Point, with concierge, cafes and break out areas, a welcoming smile and jolly hello brings warmth to our business community … and makes all the difference to our friends and colleagues …. especially on these freezing cold days of February!

 

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Looking forward to a cracker of a night »

One of the region’s favourite annual Christmas events returns again this year. The St Teresa’s Christmas Cracker Concert will be held on Saturday 17th December at Meadow, Lingfield Point, and is set to go off with a bang!

Looking forward to the contents of 2011 Christmas Cracker

Principally sponsored by Darlington Operatic Society, and helmed by acclaimed musical director John Forsyth with the ‘St Teresa’ Sinfonia Choir & Orchestra, the Christmas Cracker will feature musical ensembles, schools, choral and operatic groups from across the region.

Among the acts gearing up to ‘sleigh’ audiences are the Darlington Choral Society, the Cleveland Philharmonic Choir Tees Valley Voices, the Tees Valley Youth Choir, the Locomotion and the Cockerton Ladies Choir. With so many talented performers, the concert is shaping up to be anything but a silent night!

Tickets cost £8.50 for adults and £6.00 for children,

and are available from St Teresa’s Hospice and its Darlington retail shops,

or by calling Supporter Services on 01325 254321.

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Thinking of Someone Special – Our Giving Tree for St Teresa’s Hospice »

After the fabulous night of fund-raising with St Teresa’s Strictly Silver Annual Ball recently – with over £10,000 collected during the evening – festivities are now in hand to celebrate Christmas with our local charitable partner.

Our  partnership with St Teresa’s Hospice grows stronger and support continues with the launch of our ‘Giving to Life’ Christmas promotion. 

Dig deep as local charities continue to struggle

You’ll find Christmas trees in both Lingfield House and Beehive where you can write a very special message or remember a loved one on a Christmas card bauble to hang on our trees.  For a suggested donation of just £2 you can leave your message,  receive a lapel badge and help make a difference to St Teresa’s Hospice.

We’re also looking forward to the return of St Teresa’s Christmas Cracker on the 17th December – now in its 11th year – under the magical steer of musical director John Forsyth and St Teresa Sinfonia Choir and Orchestra.

St Teresa's Christmas Cracker - an uplifting event

Our events programme with St Teresa’s Hospice gets bigger and better every year and with the ever-increasing promotions from our on site cafe – canteen by Alexander MacMurrary – mean that our 1800+ customers and visitors always find something to enjoy here.

So dig deep and join us either with a bauble (or two) for our Christmas trees

or the magical Christmas Cracker concert in Meadow on 17 December

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