Milton Park Innovation Centre Location 99 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 4RY Contact Details Contact: Debbie Rushton, Centre Manager Tel: 01235 854000 Email: miltonpark@oxin.co.uk Website: www.miltonpark-ic.co.uk Introduction Milton Park Innovation Centre is a state-of-the-art building located on Milton Park, the UK's largest mixed-use business and science park. The centre provides entrepreneurs, start-up and growing companies with office space close to Didcot and Oxford and a professional infrastructure and image to help grow their business, along with a range of business support services needed during the first vital years of operation. Milton Park Innovation Centre is the result of an exciting collaboration between MEPC and Oxford Innovation. With over 25,000 square feet of office space, Milton Park Innovation Centre provides a range of office sizes for 1-20 people in a supportive and nurturing setting, with high specification meeting rooms and conference facilities available to hire. Supportive Office Environment Milton Park Innovation Centre provides an impressive base to work from, allowing businesses to grow within a lively environment where they will have access to the skills, knowledge and experience of similar individuals and companies. Companies located within the centre benefit from a professional infrastructure and image, along with a range of business support services needed during the first vital years of operation. Benefits of offices at Milton Park Innovation Centre include: a straightforward licence with one month's notice period, so no long-term commitment central reception and switchboard, giving companies a professional image telephone answering in company name allowing companies to focus on running their business photocopying and post handling, allowing companies to benefit from economies of scale on-site meeting and conference facilities, providing a professional environment to meet clients site security and access control systems, providing 24/7 secure access free on-site parking kitchen facilities broadband internet access high-speed network cabling (CAT 6) throughout the building. Licence fee charges for the office space include all of the following: service charges business rates reception services heating, water and electricity site management telephone answering buildings insurance and maintenance. Virtual For companies not yet ready to move into an office, Milton Park Innovation Centre's Virtual packages are designed to provide many of the benefits of being based in the Innovation Centre, but without the cost of taking physical space. For people currently working from home, or who are often on the road or with clients, a Virtual package will provide a professional image for their business. Milton Park Innovation Centre will handle their post and provide them with a dedicated telephone number answered in their company name. Standard features: business mailing address telephone answering in company name free SMS message handling mail forwarding by first class post Direct Dial In (DDI) Telephone number membership of ICE (online client networking) 10% discount on all meeting room bookings an open invitation to coffee mornings hot desk usage. Meeting and Conference Room Milton Park Innovation Centre has a range of superb conference, meeting and training room facilities available to hire by the hour or by the day. Whether planning a regular meeting or a larger conference, Milton Park Innovation Centre is fully equipped with state-of-the-art presentation equipment, free WiFi, ample parking and catering facilities available on request. Partners Milton Park Innovation Centre is the result of an exciting collaboration between MEPC and Oxford Innovation. MEPC is the UK's leading developer of sustainable business parks. It is a market leader in the ownership, development and operation of business and science parks, owns more than 12 million square feet of business space, and lets to over 650 occupiers across the country. The main focus is on working with current and prospective occupiers and getting the right, flexible property solution tailored to the needs of their business. Oxford Innovation Milton Park Innovation Centre, is managed by Oxford Innovation, the UK's leading business and innovation centre operator. Part of the SQW Group, which employs 180 staff, Oxford Innovation provides office, laboratory and workshop space on flexible terms to over 400 start-up and growing companies throughout a UK-wide network of innovation centres. Other centres include: CEME Innovation Centre, Rainham Digital Media Centre, Barnsley Harwell Innovation Centre, Oxfordshire The Nucleus, Dartford Ocean Village Innovation Centre, Southampton Portsmouth Technopole Wellingborough Innovation Centre For a full listing of Oxford Innovation's centres, please visit the website at www.oxin.co.uk. Oxford Innovation also runs a range of business support programmes across the UK and three highly successful investment networks that link investors with entrepreneurs. Location Milton Park Innovation Centre benefits from excellent transport links, strategically located along the A34, offering easy access to both the M4 and M40, and with good rail links through Didcot Parkway to London, Oxford, Birmingham and the West Country. Milton Park also benefits from a dedicated, regular shuttle bus to Didcot Parkway, which is just 5 minutes from the Innovation Centre and 40 minutes from London Paddington.