Business & Professional Services

Telford is home to many leading business and professional services firms in the UK.

Because of the variety of services offered, Telford is able to provide expert support to a wide range of enterprises, allowing them to quickly scale up operations at a low cost, positioning Telford as a high quality, low risk investment destination.

Telford has always been a destination of choice for back office and technology operations, but due to the town’s highly qualified population, it is now increasingly attracting more complicated middle and front office financial services professions.

CASE STUDY: Kensa - Streamlined opportunities through Telford Land Deal
 

Kensa Creative’s search for a new home culminated in the firm building bespoke offices from scratch thanks to the Telford Land Deal
 

Kensa Creative’s journey over the last decade demonstrates how that goal is very much a reality on the ground.

The design and marketing agency now has a wide range of clients, from start-ups to multinational corporations. But key to its success has been the ability to find suitable premises and support to nurture its development.

The company started life in a small office at the e-Innovation Centre (EIC) within the University of Wolverhampton’s campus in Telford. Over the next five years it moved into a bigger space at the EIC until eventually the firm had outgrown its base.

Scott Clarke, Kensa’s managing director and founder, picks up the story.
 

‘I’m from Telford and live here and our staff are scattered all around the surrounding area so we didn’t want to move somewhere else. We started looking at options but there wasn’t a lot available that suited us.’

It was then that biT Group, a design and project management consultancy that’s owned by the council, suggested Kensa build its own offices. A plot was identified at Hortonwood West, a brownfield site brought forward via the Telford Land Deal.

‘Building our own office really wasn’t the plan at all because we didn’t think it would be possible,’ says Scott. ‘The council’s business support team, Invest Telford, and biT Group made that space for us and made it work for our budget.’

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