Creative events agency chooses Department Leeds

Dock as its permanent base

Creative-led experiential production agency, We Love This has chosen Department Leeds Dock as its permanent base, moving from remote working to the tech, media, creative, and digital workplace destination.

Leeds-based We Love This has crafted bespoke live experiences for some of the world’s biggest national and international brands over the last decade, including Puma, Unilever, Primark, and Pinterest, and has selected the space to enhance creativity and enable a greater collaborative experience.

The 475 square-foot premium suite will support the agency’s 17 strong workforce as it moves to a hybrid working set-up, after going fully remote during the pandemic. The events production agency will have at least 12 members of the team working from Department regularly, with employees having the choice to work from where they feel most comfortable.

Department Leeds Dock – the work, wellness, and social concept – has a range of shared amenities including meeting rooms, podcasting studios, event spaces, as well as Condition gym, and Fearns the kitchen, bar and lounge, all of which support a healthy work-life balance.

Catherine Symonds, people, culture and operations director said: “We needed a space where work and life can coexist with the wellness and social aspects of our daily lives, and Department ticked all those boxes. Moving our team from entirely remote to hybrid and in-person has allowed us to create an open and collaborative culture that technology alone was unable to provide.

“Given the collaborative, creative nature of our business, we massively value any opportunity to sit in an open room and brainstorm and bounce ideas off one another – discussing ideas and concepts across the table and over a coffee, or cocktail, can’t be paralleled through a screen. As a small team, we truly see the benefits of being back in a physical space and building personal connections. Department is such a lovely setting to do it in too.”

We Love These supports clients in corporate, retail, and lifestyle industries craft conferences, exhibitions, press shows, and experimental immersive events that bring their brands to life in a way that their prospective customers can interact with them.

Anthony Powell, managing director of Department, said: “We Love This have made their suite home already and we’re really excited to have them here. The team are a valued part of our community and it’s great to have so many creative people amongst our founding members. We recognise that the way businesses work has changed, and Department Leeds Dock has been curated to foster creativity and collaboration between a team, when they meet in person.”