Skyline Issue 4: Fairs and Festivals

Skyline

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IN THIS ISSUE 03 Welcome 04 Funded training - ICS 05 Christmas Fair Preview 06 Skyscoop - What's New 08 News & Views 09 Pharmacy within Reach 10 SkySpooks 11 Discounts for Skypark Staff 12 Art preview: Rhiannon Inman Simpson EVENTS IN DECEMBER 1ST CHRISTMAS FAIR 8TH LA BEAUTY DAY 8TH & 9TH VSHIPS GAMES COLLECTION 15TH SITE SOCIAL 15TH BARNARDOS CLOSET CLEAR OUT 22ND LA BEAUTY DAY

EVENTS IN 2012 9TH-12TH FREE FITNESS CLASSES 13TH FREE MASSAGES NEW ART EXHIBITION 23RD BLOOD BUS 9TH FEB: VALENTINES SITE SOCIAL

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WELCOME

Welcome to the fourth edition of Skyline: Fairs and Festivals

It's a busy time at Skypark with so much happening! With Halloween celebrations and Christmas looming there are plenty of good excuses for us to have fun with our residents!

We have a fabulously festive fair coming on 1st December with music and a dozen fascinating gift opportunities to tempt you. Just in case you need more inspiration we have big names coming on 15th December to our site social with House of Fraser and Origins from John Lewis to help you fill those stockings. As ever we will have heartwarming song from our nursery children and seasonal music from The Scottish Conservatoire.

We'd like to introduce you to our new Centre Manager, Malcolm - please say hello to him as he will be co-hosting the Christmas events in reception. He's keen to meet you!

Malcolm McFetridge Skypark Centre Manager

Kelly at Concierge has been feverishly busy putting together some more services to make your life fulfilled here on site - beauty and prescription delivery are all set up with new fitness classes chalked up for the New Year to help with the festive indulgence! Please keep all new ideas flowing for your wants and desires to Kelly@skypark-glasgow.com Angela Higgins Owner/Director Resonance Capital

We're fully in the social swing, helping with the Anderston Area Christmas event for children and hosting plenty of activity here on site. Warm wishes to all of you for a fun festive season.

Best wishes

Ken Barrett Owner/Director Resonance Capital

Lisa lisa@skypark-glasgow.com

Mark Holmes Asset Manager Moorfield Group

Lynne Feighan Deputy Centre Manager Skypark

Camille Lorigo Marketing Manager Skypark

Lisa KIrsop Tenant Services Skypark

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Flexible and funded skills development opportunities In order for Scotland to recover from the economic downturn, it’s never been more important to ensure that we all deliver value in our jobs.

With what feels like evermore tasks to complete, and what often seems like less time each day to get them completed, we need to ensure that the skills we each have in order to deliver these efficiently are constantly updated so we can keep up with the pace of change in today’s workplace.

How many times have you been asked to attend a training course during your working day which has just felt inconvenient due to deadlines? So, what’s the answer, what’s the solution to needing to consistently develop professionally, but still complete your work on time!?

On an individual basis, a distance learning course from ICS – a Skypark company – can help you to manage your learning, across a diverse range of subjects, in a flexible way to fit around your work and life commitments.

On a business level, they can work with your company to provide a blended learning solution, utilising a variety of learning channels to provide the optimum learning experience for your employees to gain accredited qualifications, whilst increasing engagement through investing in their long term development.

To understand more about how ICS can work with you to find qualifications that suits your needs, and provide a flexible learning solution, call us now on 0800 027 6990, email enquiries@icseducate.co.uk, or visit them in Skypark 5.

You can also benefit from funding of £5,000 for up to 10 employees, speak to us now to understand how you can access this for all our training courses* * Does not include mandatory business requirement courses www.icslearn.co.uk

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Christmas Fair Fun 01.12.2011 Skypark begins the countdown to Christmas with its festive fair on December 1st.

Be entertained by a celloist on the day as you enjoy some festive fare from The Hidden Lane Tea Room, including melba toasts with chicken liver and orange pate, mini oatcakes with brie and cranberry, platters of Terry’s choc orange brownies and mini fruit scones. And that’s not counting the freebie mince pies and mulled wine from the Skypark team.

Perfect for recharging your batteries after you’ve made a big dent in your gift list with our collection of shopping choices (see below) lined up for the big Christmas countdown.

Skypark Shopping Ashtins – Selling a range of handmade organic soaps, bath bombs and scrubs Simoon Gifts – A range of Jewellery Cheap Slap and Accessories – Discount designer beauty products, makeup and accessories Sydneys Cup Cakes – Festive cup cakes and homemade baking Phoenix Cards – Ethical Christmas cards and Gift Wrap, a portion of proceeds go to charity GSA Store – Jewellery, gifts, interiors, design treasures The Shop of Interest – Prints, Knitwear, Little books I.J Mellis Cheese Monger – Tastings & speciality cheese gift sets Made in the Shade - decorations, maisonette stall Dermalogica - dermalogica products Crystal Inc Boutique - Jewellery Sweet Fee - Sweets, fudge, tablet Stuff and Love Bears - Designer kids clothing & make your own bears The Gift Business - Christmas Hampers Lorraine Bell - Christmas cards, a portion of proceeds go to charity

Fair First Last month her cars made out of fudge were a big talking point at the Scottish Car of the Year Awards, now Sweet Fee will be vrooming along to the Skypark Christmas Fair to tempt you with her traditional handmade tablet, macaroon and other tempting treats. Run by Young Entrepreneur of the Year award winner Fiona Simpson (23), the company was launched last year with the intention of providing an outlet for people to indulge themselves. Go on – indulge!

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A festive site social will be held on December 15th. The children from the Four Seasons Nursery will be weaving their magic by coming along to sing Christmas carols at 1pm on the day, with additional music from a string quartet.

There will be some retail therapy for last minute gift ideas, with the return of some of the pop-up shops most loved by our tenants in recent months. For the art lovers among you, look out for an appearance by Art Pistol, who will be staging a mini-exhibition and selling prints priced from £10-£50, depending on size.

There will also be wine, soft drinks and treats from the Skypark team to wish all their tenants all the best for the festive season. Look out for updates on facebook.

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COMPETITION! NAME YOUR ICON - WIN A MAGNUM OF CHAMPAGNE! Skypark has in itself become an icon on the Glasgow skyline - now we would like you to provide some iconic quotes to decorate the site.

Rise to the challange and vote for your favourite icon - with a sentence to say why.

Up for grabs to the most inventive entrant will be a magnum of champagne.

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Post your entries on facebook or hand in your quote to Kelly at Skypark reception.

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SOCIAL CALENDAR KICKS OFF 2012 Skypark will be launching a new series of fitness classes during the week of January 9th. They even hope to have a new boxercise class in place to help fight off the festive spare tyre...watch this space!

Look out for the first site social of the New Year, scheduled for 9th February.

The second big event of 2012 is pencilled in for the first week in March.

Keep an eye on the Skypark website and facebook for updates....see you there!

Paul McArdie has launched a new CARDIO COMBAT class, a calorie-busting (non contact) workout using various styles of martial arts. Classes run every Tuesday evening at 5.45pm in Skypark 1 suite 2/1 and will be priced at £3.50.

All levels of fitness are welcome.

For more details please email: Kelly@skypark-glasgow.com Carole Bruce will introduce a lunchtime ZUMBA TONING class, try a FREE taster session on Thursday 12th January. £3 per class thereafter, 12.10 - 12.55pm in Suite 2/1, Skypark 1. Carole also runs the Zumba basic and toning class on Monday evening, 5.30-6.15 & 6.15-7pm. £5 for both classes or £3 each. Please note: dumb bells are required for the zumba toning class. For more details and to reserve a place on any of the classes email carole1bruce@hotmail.com Clare Buchanan is trialing a second PILATES class. It will begin Wednesday 11th January for FREE, £4 thereafter.

13.10 - 13.50 in Suite 2/1, Skypark 1.

Contact Clarebpt@gmail.com

ART ON SHOW In the reception at Skypark an exhibition is being staged by Lei Liu, a fine art painting and printmaking student from the Glasgow School of Art. President of the Glasgow Chinese Students and Scholars Association, Lei is a past student of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China and has previously staged exhibitions in London and in his home country. View more of his work here www.liuleistudio.com

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his month work began on a revamp of the gateway to Skypark.

A major remodel of the ramp and entrance is underway, and by the Spring of 2012 the first phase of development will be complete with a new tenants area and retail services onsite to follow.

The works were launched as Moorfield Group and Resonance Capital celebrated a successful first year since taking over as joint venture partners in Skypark in November 2010 – a year which saw them bring five new lettings into the complex, including the Glasgow School of Art as a major tenant.

But according to Angela Higgins, Director of Resonance Capital, it’s the cutting edge services developing at Skypark which are setting the site apart.

She said: “A major driver of the site is the development of our onsite customer services and building a business community for our tenants to take part in and enjoy.

CHRISTMAS CLEAR-OUT Skypark have just agreed a brand new facility onsite to allow tenants to make donations of unwanted items to Barnardos.

The new service will operate once a month, timed with social events, with the first drop-off getting underway at the festive social on December 15.

Why not clear out your wardrobe of good condition clothing, handbags and accessories – and raise money for a good cause at the same time?

Drop off your wares to Kelly in our main reception, or at Barnardos offices on the 5th floor of Skypark 5, Finnieston St. We are happy to arrange collection of bags from your office and delivery to Barnardos, just call 0141 221 6868.

“ Having a fully trained hotel concierge at reception means our tenants can tap into expertise on hotel bookings, restaurant recommendations, taxis and even flower delivery.

“ We see Skypark creating a new ‘business hotel’ concept in Scotland.”

As well as the upgrading of the Skypark entrance ramp, and repositioning of the main entrance, the remodelling works will upgrade the main reception, develop new retail facilities, install a tenants seating area, refurbish lift lobbies and upgrade the upper floors.

MACMILLAN MAGIC The Skypark community showed they are a big-hearted bunch when they threw themselves wholeheartedly into the caffeine fuelled fun of The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. The event raised £213 for Macmillan Cancer Support and involved some input from the nursery who baked scones for the site-wide fundraiser. Special thanks to Kirsty Fitzgerald from the Hidden Lane Tearoom for donating a variety of delicious cakes to the coffee morning and to Angela, Kelly, Lisa and Camille from the Skypark team for their donations for a worthy cause.

YOUTH CAFE SUPPORT Anderston Youth Café is a voluntary project in the process of being set up close to Skypark. The area has had a problem in the past with antisocial behaviour and in particular under age drinking. The project aims to provide a safe meeting place for young people, where they can engage in a variety of activities, without cost and to encourage the young people to take responsibility for improving aspects of the local community.

Skypark management team are already providing support to the project and would appreciate any board games, consols etc that you may be able to donate. If you are able to help please pass your donations to Robert Gorman at V.Ships on the 5th floor of Skypark 1, on 8th & 9th December, they are all very much appreciated.

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The blood bus will be coming to site on January 23rd. The facility will be available between 9am-11.30am and from 1pm-3.30pm at the Lower Cranston St car park.

Bookings in advance to kelly@skyparkglasgow.com

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hree convenient new services launched this month at Skypark. Staff can now arrange a prescription drop-off service, have a massage – or even have their nails done! For a full list of services Skypark take a look at our online handbook: www.issuu.com/skypark/docs/tenant_services

LA Beauty A new onsite beauty service has been launched at Skypark, just in time for the party season.

All Skypark residents will receive a 20% discount on a range of beauty treatments.

Four Seasons Nursery Skypark’s very own Nursery, Four Seasons, provides a high quality childcare service on your doorstep. Four Seasons has been established since 1995, catering for children aged 3 months to 5 years old. The nursery is also registered for out-of-school places for children aged 5 to 12.

The nursery is open between 8.00am to 6.00pm, Monday to Friday, and is located at Level 0. The entrance is between the rear entrance to the SP1 Reception and the entrance to SP2.

Packages range from full ‘Glam It Up’ packages, including Hollywood Lashes, acrylic or Jessica Geleration nails & Hollywood toes for £59, to £20 party packages of nails and corner lashes – down to practical eyebrow waxes and file and polish sessions you can fit in your lunch hour.

The next Beauty day’s are scheduled for 8th and 22nd December.

For a full list of treatments and to book: email Kelly@skypark-glasgow.com

We operate a subsidised parking scheme for parents working within Skypark taking full time nursery spaces.

For further details or to make an appointment to arrange to view the facilities please contact Four Seasons: t: 0141 248 5557 | e: skypark@fourseasonsnurseries.co.uk www.fourseasonsnurseries.co.uk

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FREE MASSAGES We have introduced a compimentary massage service for Friday 13th January, between 12 and 2pm, courtesy of Pressure Drop Glasgow.

To book your FREE massage email kelly@skypark-glasgow.com

Available at Skypark 1 reception, this service will run daily from Monday to Friday. Deposit your prescription slip by 10am, along with a contact number and detials of where you work in the secure box, and Reach will deliver it to your office by 1pm the same day. For further details please email Kelly@skypark-glasgow.com

Pressure Drop offer 20 minute seated acupressure massages in an ergonomically designed chair with no need to remove any clothing and don’t use any oil. We work over the upper and lower back, arms, hands, shoulders, neck and head.t The treatment relaxes the client into a deep meditative state that we feel is similar to a power nap. The last 5 minutes of the treatment serves to invigorate and refresh the client so he/she is ready to return to work feeling calm yet alert. There is plenty of research that shows as little as 15 minutes of massage boosts mental clarity, decision-making skills, improves sleep and general well-being.

www.reachpharmacy.com www.hillheadpharmacy.co.uk

We cater our treatments to your needs, and can offer 20, 15 or 10 minute massages.

Reach pharmacy have launched their pick up and drop off prescription service, completely free of charge to Skypark residents.

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Within Reach

Innovation in health

Reach Pharmacy offers the full range of community pharmacy services, from stop smoking programmes to repeat prescriptions, from health checks (i.e. on diabetes and cholesterol) to all-year round travel vaccinations.

Reach Pharmacy, an award-winning pharmacy, will be supporting the healthcare and well-being needs of Skypark residents by providing a daily collection delivery service. This will allow you to deposit prescriptions safely and securely in the special white box, located at main reception.

Prescription slips left before 10am will be processed and the prepared medication delivered to individual office sites by 1pm on the same day. Skypark will also be running a flu vaccination service with Reach Pharmacy in December. For updates check out Skypark facebook www. facebook.com/skyparkglasgow

It also offers advice on diet, natural remedies, contraception and offers a free prescription collection and delivery service across the city, as well as providing a range of products through its ecommerce website www.reachpharmacy. com including beauty products and supplements.

In November, the Scottish Chemist Review’s national Scottish Pharmaceutical Awards, announced Reach Pharmacy as the recipient of its prestigious Innovations in Pharmaceutical Public Health Award 2011, for a community vaccination campaign it developed and implemented with Novartis.

With eight pharmacies located across the West of Scotland, the nearest branch of Reach Pharmacy is just a short walk from Skypark. at 1094 Argyle Street, near Finnieston Cross (open 9am-9pm, Monday to Friday.)

The chain’s latest venture is a pharmacy on the campus of the University of Glasgow, at 65 Hillhead Street, linked to the Barclay Medical Centre, and located within the Fraser Building; this is situated between Wellington Church, University Avenue and the Hunterian Art Gallery.

Reach also manages a longestablished pharmacy in Portobello, Edinburgh. For more, see www.hillheadpharmacy.co.uk and www.reachpharmacy.co.uk

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here were all kind of spooky goings-on at the Hallowe’en site social.

The children from Four Seasons Nursery came over to entertain the crowds with some specially prepared songs for the occasion, with additional entertainment from visiting musician Calum Huggan on xylophone.

Pop-up shops on the day included Sydneys cup cakes, Cheap Slap and Simoon Gifts.

There were some added bargains for partygoers with Dr Bike on site providing

free tune ups for bikes, while the girls from Hobs were onsite offering up to 90% off printing and other services.

Lei Liu, the current on-site artist at Skypark, also came along to the social and provided complimentary chinese beer, herbal tea and nibbles.

And of course tenants enjoyed the usual free wine, soft drinks and snacks from the Skypark team.

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Discounts Galore THREE new discount packages come on stream this month which are bound to prove very popular for the party season.

New on-site nail bar LA Beauty are offering 20% off their packages which range from a lunchtime eyebrow wax to the full works of nails, lashes and toenails! So there’s no excuse not to go glam.

20% OFF ALL TREATMENTS Orly Fx Nails £29.50 (gel polish, lasts 2 weeks) (valid December ‘11) mon-thu 8.30-21.30 | fri 8.30-20.30 | sat 9.00-18.00 | sun 11.00-17.00

T: 0141 221 1640 | E: info@eutopiaspa.co.uk 141 Finnieston St, G3 8HB | www.eutopiaspa.co.uk

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Skypark will be launching a new discount card, which will offer superb money off deals - all listed in an easy monthly online update.

This fab new service will be unveiled to coincide with our new-look website. Coming soon.....

• 10% off admission for your party

at Greens Health & Fitness you can get a

Fantastic corporate rate available for all Skypark employees.

The other new offer solves your problem if you’re worried about getting home after the office do. Campanile hotel at Glasgow SECC will be offering an accommodation rate of £30 per room for all Skypark staff members wishing to stay overnight in Glasgow for nights out etc. Look out for more post-working hours food & beverage offerings from our new friendly neighbourhood hotel.

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(One Skypark Card admits up to four adults in a party)

• 1 Child place FREE with every paying adult • FREE Audio guide experience for all • FREE coffee, tea or hot chocolate for the Skypark Card holderholder (coming soon!)

Terms & conditions apply.

Great night out planned? forget the hassle of taxis just stay in town . . . Fantastic Skypark rates from

only £30 per room per night To book just call 0141 287 7700 & quote “Skypark” or just email us at glasgow@campanile.com

20% off all treatments

Skypark Sole Occupancy - £30 room only ~ £35 bed & Scottish breakfast Skypark Twin Occupancy - £39 room only ~ £49 bed & Scottish breakfast (All room rates are subject to availability at the time of enquiry) FRIDAY FUN FEELING? Just pop in...

Why only party on a Friday?

Offers available all day, every day

Selected dates in Skypark & 1060 Argyle st, Finnieston 0141 237 8191 relax@labeautyboutique.co.uk

Bottle of house wine & sharing platter for two only £16 Bucket of 8 beers & sharing platter for 4 for only £24 Attending a concert at SECC?

Pre-theatre 4-7pm - only £10 per person for two courses from our special pre-theatre menu (subject to availability, pre-booking highly recommended)

Issue 5 is coming in February 2012.

For comments and content please contact: Camille@skypark-glasgow.com or Lisa@skypark-glasgow.com

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RHIANNON INMAN SIMPSON orn and educated in London, where she is currently based, Rhiannon Inman Simpson studied at The Glasgow School of Art, achieving a BA Hons degree in Fine Art. Last year she studied at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, before embarking on a period of travel across the United States and Canada, a period which has proven to be the inspiration for her latest paintings, which will go on show at Skypark in January. She spoke to Skyline about her influences and her love for the city which will host her latest exhibition . .

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How did you enjoy your time at the Glasgow School of Art? It was a very inspiring place to study. I have a real attachment to the Mackintosh building itself, it has such a magic to it.

And just being surrounded by people who are so passionate and committed to their work was wonderful.

What did you like about your time in Glasgow and are you enjoying returning to the city to stage this new exhibtion? I loved the city itself, the uniqueness of it, and I also enjoyed the variety of landscapes you can get to so easily from Glasgow. Coming from London, it was a real treat to be able to be able to get out of the city so easily and jump on a train to the mountains or the coast for the day. I’m very much looking forward to returning to Glasgow to exhibit work, and might have a much needed trip to sit on a mountain top whilst I’m there!

Can you tell us a little about the work you will be displaying at Skypark? I spent this summer travelling and camping around the States and Canada and have been making some new work in response to the diverse and strange landscapes I encountered along the way.

I’d like to show some of these pieces alongside paintings of British places. I am drawn to landscapes that have an otherworldly quality, that have a sense of timelessness and isolation, and feel the paintings are as much an investigation of an imaginative space as a physical one.

What environment do you normally work in? I like to walk and I feel that is always the starting point for new work. On these walks I will generally either sketch or paint small studies, write a few words down and take photographs, and bring these back to my studio to work from.

What are your influences? I’m fascinated by the history of British landscape, it’s such a long standing tradition. I love painters like Paul Nash and Ivon Hitchens; their sense of colour and individual ways of exploring the land. I love Richard Long’s work and am interested in the connection between language and landscape. Literature and poetry are really important to me.

Although you are currently based in London, do you enjoy travelling and exhibiting your work in other cities? I’m always itching to travel! In March I’m going to Iceland to be the artist in residence in a small gallery just outside of Reykjavik for a month. I’ve always had a bit of an obsession with going to Iceland, there’s something about the landscape that seems so otherworldly, so I’m very excited to be given the time and space to just explore a new environment and make work responding to it.

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