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BUSINESS REPORT An aerial shot of the nearly completed building
MILESTONE FOR MEMBER A boutique HR consultancy is celebrating 10 years as a member of Northamptonshire Chamber. Acanthus Management Limited is led by Maggie Halsall (pictured) and provides local and national clients with practical and commercially focused outsourced HR services. Maggie’s association with the Chamber began a decade ago when she was a member of the University of Northampton’s Enterprise Club - an alumni association offering support to entrepreneurs. It offered her a year’s free membership and she has never looked back. As well as staying with the Chamber for 10 years, she became one of its board members in 2014 and joined its sister Chamber in Milton Keynes eight years ago. Maggie said: “I joined the Chamber to mix with, and learn from, other people in business. “I’ve gone on to sit on the Chamber’s board because I wanted to put something back into the business community and stand by those who supported me when I started Acanthus in 2009.” Maggie also later joined the Chamber’s Finance Sub-Group and Remuneration Committee and continues to use the organisation as a learning resource and for networking. She added: “Being a Chamber member alerts me to potential opportunities. It allows me to appreciate what’s happening in people’s businesses and to hear about trends or people management issues first-hand, so that I may be able to offer help. As a result, I’ve built long-lasting relationships with an eclectic mix of people who are as passionate as I am about developing a local business community in a rural setting.”
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BUSINESS CENTRE TO OPEN NEW OFFICES An independent, family-run business centre is opening new offices and a conference centre for more than 100 delegates to cope with demand for its facilities. Bragborough Hall Business Centre is set to open The Aviary in April. It will feature 15 new offices, a conference centre, meeting rooms and outdoor spaces for breakout purposes and lunchtime walks. The venue has also recently appointed new events and conference manager Hester Dunkley, who has worked in the events and exhibition industry for a decade. She said: “I joined the team at the beginning of the year in advance of the spectacular 100% floorspace expansion of the business centre that was first established nearly two decades ago. We’re very excited about opening The Aviary. It has excellent connectivity and state-of-the-art technology is a given as we anticipate many of our first events
will be hybrid, combining both online and physical events together. “Looking further ahead we also plan to hold an open day later in the year – hopefully in the summer.” The Aviary adds to the existing 15 offices and treatment rooms in the venue’s Health & Wellbeing Centre. Lunchtime yoga classes, afterwork massages or even an
orthopaedic consultation are just some of the onsite offerings. The venue also has cottages available for short breaks. Locally sourced hot and cold food is available every day and there is plenty of free parking available. Visit: www.bragboroughhall businesscentre.com
Work gets underway onsite
ACQUISITION FOR OASIS GROUP OASIS Group, the largest privately-owned Records was the most logical step for us and our clients,” said and Information Management (RIM) provider in Gerry Hulshoff, shareholder at NETarchief. Europe has acquired NETarchief, the archive As a specialist provider of records and information management division of Van’t Net management solutions OASIS Group are in a Archiefbeheer B.V. unique position to support clients The Netherlands-based storage throughout a records lifecycle. company, NETarchief, was formed in OASIS Group, which operates across ‘THE 1998 to provide archive storage Europe, provides clients with end-to-end services alongside the established records and information management FACE OF THE removals business. Under the terms of services ranging from records and WORKPLACE IS the agreement OASIS Group will document storage, scanning and CHANGING integrate the NETarchief archive digitisation, cloud storage, through to management business with OASIS Data shredding and destruction services. RAPIDLY’ & Document Management Netherlands OASIS Group director of corporate B.V. development Matt Thornton said: “Despite “The face of the workplace is changing the pandemic the acquisitions team are rapidly. Regulation is becoming stricter, working in partnership with business owners especially with regards to privacy. And with more across Europe who are seeking a smooth transition.” clients opting to continue to work from home, we felt This transaction marks the 51st successful acquisition that integrating our archive services with OASIS Group for OASIS Group.
