St John’s Innovation Centre offers business address and serviced office accommodation services to early start businesses. A full business incubation service is offered to tenant companies, incorporating a range of business support, training and advisory services.
The philosophy of the Innovation Park is to provide security and flexibility to tenants, and the Centre therefore offers renewable leases for up to three years with the option to break on one month’s notice. Individual units – which can range in size from 10 to 500 sq.m.
The St Johns Innovation Centre building has been designed so that each floor forms a ‘street’ complex which allows tenants to ‘shop’ for services from fellow tenants to aid the development of their businesses. These include expertise in:
- Product innovation, design and manufacture Marketing and public relations
- Corporate design
- Advertising
- Human resource development and management
- Training
- Fund raising and other financial services
- Training in a wide range of business related subjects
Rent address Star service (Virtual Office)
A rent-address service called the Star Service, which offers a business address, telephone, fax and post handling plus access to our building’s facilities to high-tech companies or companies that provide directly relevant business support services and that want an Innovation Centre ‘office’ but is unable to take up residency on the Park. This virtual office service has been used by numerous start-up companies as the first stage in becoming a tenant.
Business Support and advice
Experienced business advisers are on-site to support clients with a wide range of business issues, with specialist expertise in finance and marketing. Regular business development and training sessions and workshops are held in our conference and meeting rooms to support the development of the high-growth technology companies who are tenants at the Innovation Centre.
Business Support is offered to tenants through our in-house team of advisers: – David Gill, David Moir and Janette Pallas.
St John’s Innovation Centre seeks to support businesses through a number of different programmes including Understanding Finance for Business, Coaching for High Growth and Inspiration for Growth. To assess how we can help you, the Customer Journey below highlights the stage of business each programme is targeted at. You will also see how the services of Business Link, fit in relation to those of St John’s.
Blog
The blog is written by the team at St Johns Innovation Centre. It also includes contributions from the advisors, entrepreneurs and business angels that are involved in the Understanding Finance for Business programme which helps entrepreneurs navigate the maze of funding options and raise the finance they need to grow.
St John’s Innovation Centre Newsletter
The SJIC newsletter is packed full of tenant news, the latest business support available, useful information and new events. If you are a SJIC tenant/virtual tenant and wish to publicise your latest news, please email events@stjohns.co.uk.
