Store & Secure gives storage support to hospice

Storage company Store & Secure has shown its support for its local charity hospice by offering free storage to Lewis-Manning Hospice Care.

Store & Secure is run by sisters Sophie and Lucy Maidman and is located in Poole. The bright yellow building in Hamworthy is 40,000 square feet in area and is touchingly named Joyce House, after their late mother Joyce Maidman, who sadly passed away in 2020.

Sophie Maidman said: “We are delighted to be able to make this gesture to Lewis-Manning Hospice Care. We are aware of the incredible work that they do and the difference that this makes to the patients and their families that it supports across Poole, East Dorset and Purbeck.

“After our mother died, we were contacted by Lewis-Manning Hospice Care’s Family Support and Bereavement team to see if they could help us, this was hugely appreciated by us all.”

Lewis-Manning’s chief executive, Clare Gallie, said: “The storage being offered to us by Store & Secure will save our charity approximately £5,000 each year. We will use the space to store retail shop items, hospice equipment that is needed, but not every day, and also items that we need to legally save.

“It’s a wonderfully generous gesture by Store & Secure and we are hugely grateful.” www.storeandsecure.co.uk

TDSi shortlisted for national award

For the second year in succession, TDSi has been shortlisted for the ‘Security or Fire Software Product or Software as a Service Innovation of the Year’ category in the Security and Fire Excellence Awards 2022 for its GARDiS software solution. The award is focussed on rewarding innovators which have, through their new software product or software as a service offering, brought an extra dimension to the security and/or fire safety market. www.tdsi.co.uk

Freehold Warehouse Unit Sells Through Property Consultancy Vail Williams

A freehold industrial/warehouse investment at an industrial estate near Bournemouth has been sold.

The 20,604 sq ft unit at 10 Airfield Road, Christchurch, was bought by wealth management specialists Lewis Investments to add to their property investment syndicates under management.

Property consultancy Vail Williams acted for the seller William Fishwick & Son, a property and renewable energy investor based in Chester. Goadsby represented Lewis Investments.

On the Airfield Industrial Estate, the unit is let to Focal Point Fires on a 10-year lease to February 2029.

Ben Duly, a senior surveyor working out of Vail Williams’ Bournemouth office, said: “We were instructed by the owners to market the investment of 10 Airfield and following the marketing period the sale was agreed.

“Focal Point Fires is the tenant – the company is the UK’s largest manufacturer of fuel effect fires, with both electric and gas fuel effect fires featured in an extensive product range.”

Alastair Warwick Smith of Lewis Investments said: “We are delighted to have secured this property on behalf of our investors. It is located on an established and sought-after industrial estate and there are good prospects for rental growth going forward.”

DTM Legal in Chester acted for the seller and Lester Aldridge Solicitors in Southampton acted for the purchaser.

The purchase price was undisclosed. www.vailwilliams.com