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BE’s CSR Manager scoops ESG Leader of the Year Award

BE Offices’ CSR Manager announced as ESG Leader of the Year at the inaugural Property Week ESG Edge Awards 2024. BE Offices are delighted to have been recognised through their CSR Manager, Julie Tucker, at the awards ceremony which took ...

Oct 17th 2024

BE’s CSR Manager honoured with Freedom of the City

BE Offices PR & Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Julie Tucker, has been awarded the Freedom of the City in recognition of the time she gives to various City of London social impact and business improvement initiatives. Described ...

Sep 24th 2024

BE Offices celebrates 6th year of participation in City Giving Day

City Giving Day, now in its 9th year, is an annual opportunity for City businesses to support the Lord Mayor’s Appeal and other charities, while celebrating their ongoing philanthropic activities. City Giving Day champions volunteering ...

Jul 24th 2024

BE Offices participates once again in the Great City Race

BE Offices clients and staff have participated for the 17th year in the City of London charity run. On Tuesday 23rd July, we were delighted to field a team of 50 runners for the 2024 Standard Chartered Great City Race in what was our 17th consecutive ...

Feb 22nd 2024

BE Offices scoop Chairman’s Cup at the Clean City Awards

BE Offices announced as the winner of the Chairman’s Cup (small site category) at the City of London Corporation’s Clean City Awards. BE Offices are delighted to have been recognised for their sustainability and climate action ...

Dec 12th 2023

BE Offices shortlisted for prestigious Clean City Awards

BE Offices announced as a finalist in the City of London Corporation’s Clean City Awards in the Chairman’s Cup (small site) category. BE Offices are delighted to have been shortlisted for the most prestigious award in the City ...

Oct 11th 2023

BE Offices’ CSR manager scoops Lord Mayor’s Award

BE’s Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Julie Tucker, has been recognised by the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Alderman Nicholas Lyons, as Social Impact Leader of the Year at the prestigious Lord Mayor’s Dragon Awards ...

Oct 03rd 2023

BE Offices celebrates its 12th Macmillan Coffee Morning

BE Offices, Headspace and BE.Spoke clients help raise over £1700 for Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. From Belfast to Southampton BE Offices continued its long-standing support last week for the annual Macmillan ...

Sep 26th 2023

BE Offices celebrates social impact on City Giving Day

City Giving Day, now in its 8th year, is an annual opportunity for City businesses to raise much-needed funds for the Lord Mayor’s Appeal and other charities, as well as celebrate all their year long philanthropic activities. Championing ...

Aug 10th 2023

Hat-trick of award nominations for BE Offices’ CSR manager

BE’s Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Julie Tucker, shortlisted for the Lord Mayor’s Dragon Awards 2023 in the Social Impact Leadership category. Hot on the heels of achieving Highly Commended in the Sustainability ...

Jul 24th 2023

BE Offices clients and staff take part in the Great City Race

BE Offices fields its largest ever team for its 16th year of participation in City of London charity run. On Tuesday 18th July, we were delighted to field our largest ever team of runners for the 2023 Standard Chartered Great City Race in what ...

Jul 17th 2023

BE Offices’ CSR manager shortlisted for 2nd Sustainability Leader of the Year award

BE Offices sustainability champion, Julie Tucker, has been shortlisted for the World Sustainability Awards 2023 in the category of Sustainability Leader of the Year. The awards recognise disruptors and change makers with entrepreneurial ...

Jul 03rd 2023

BE Offices’ CSR manager achieves Highly Commended in Sustainability Leader of the Year award

BE Offices ESG champion, Julie Tucker, has been recognised as Highly Commended in the category of Sustainability Leader of the Year at the BusinessGreen UK Green Business Awards 2023. Julie was overwhelmed to receive the accolade at the glittering ...

Mar 27th 2023

BE Offices’ CSR manager shortlisted for Sustainability Leader of the Year award

BE Offices sustainability champion, Julie Tucker, has been shortlisted for the BusinessGreen UK Green Business Awards 2023 in the category of Sustainability Leader of the Year. The awards showcase the very best of the UK’s green economy ...

Jan 23rd 2023

BE Offices partners with Innovations for Learning’s TutorMate programme

Employees volunteer to commit to weekly online reading sessions to support literacy for primary school children. BE Offices is partnering with Innovations for Learning/TutorMate to take part in their virtual reading scheme that enables ...

Dec 06th 2022

5 things businesses can do to support their communities

Amid growing concern around the cost of living crisis, together with issues such as social inequality and the environment, the corporate world needs to accelerate their social impact measures now more than ever before. For many companies, ...

Sep 27th 2022

Celebrating BE Offices’ social impact on City Giving Day

The annual City Giving Day, now in its 7th year, is an opportunity for City businesses not only to raise valuable funds for the Lord Mayor’s Appeal and other charities, but also to celebrate the value those businesses bring to society. ...

Sep 21st 2022

BE Offices commits to pursuing B Corporation Certification

BE Offices today announces it has committed to pursuing B Corporation Certification as a means of affirming one of its core values – We have a commitment to our communities and the environment. Certified B Corporations are companies verified ...

Sep 13th 2022

BE Offices clients join the Great City Race

BE’s largest ever team turns out for our 15th consecutive year of participation in City of London charity run. On Tuesday 6th September, we were delighted to field our largest ever team of runners for the 2022 Standard Chartered Great ...

Aug 17th 2022

BE Offices partners with Treeapp on international reforestation projects

BE Offices supports carbon neutral ambitions through Treeapp’s certified global tree planting projects. BE Offices is delighted to have partnered with Treeapp to support reforestation projects across the globe as a means of offsetting ...

Aug 03rd 2022

BE Offices supports the COSMIC Dragon Boat Regatta

BE Offices once again participates in the COSMIC Dragon Boat Regatta in support of the Children of St Mary’s Intensive Care unit. On Thursday 28th July BE Offices took part for the 4th time in the annual COSMIC Dragon Boat Regatta and were ...

Mar 21st 2022

BE Offices supports Move for Mindfulness Week in aid of The Samaritans

BE Offices have partnered with running app Lupa to support Move for Mindfulness Week in aid of The Samaritans. Lupa, the world’s smartest running app built to run with you and mindfully guide you to your goals, whatever they may be, combines ...

Sep 29th 2021

BE Offices celebrates its 10th Macmillan Coffee Morning

BE Offices, &Offices, Headspace and BE.Spoke clients help raise in excess of £1,300 for Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning 2021 marks a decade of involvement for BE Offices in the annual Macmillan World’s ...

Jul 21st 2021

BE Offices’ largest ever team supports the 2021 Great City Race

60 runners representing clients and staff from BE Offices, Headspace Group, BE.Spoke and &Offices take part in the Standard Chartered Great City Race. In what was BE Offices 14th consecutive year of participating in the Great City Race, ...

Jun 11th 2021

BE Offices partners with The Youth Group

BE Offices is delighted to announce its partnership with The Youth Group, a UK organisation which supports millions of young people across the world into meaningful employment opportunities by helping them gain new skills and by providing ...

Sep 23rd 2020

Red socks, a saxophone and singing with Supertramp

How I found myself singing with the Lord Mayor of London and the saxophonist from Supertramp. 22nd September 2020, City Giving Day, dawned bright and full of promise, but for me it wasn’t the early start it would have been in previous years, ...

Jul 27th 2020

New government funds to support your business through coronavirus

We look at some of the financial initiatives designed to boost a recovering economy. Loans, grants and overdrafts. There are a range of options available for small and medium-sized businesses looking to safeguard their businesses and maximise ...

May 14th 2020

BE Office’s personal trainer advocates diet before exercise to lose weight

If your waistline has expanded during lock down you might be wondering about how to lose a few pounds before returning to normal life. BE’s PT gives us his top tips. What is the first thing that comes to mind when you decide to lose weight? ...

Oct 20th 2019

Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 13 – 93 eggs safely delivered!

Our last working day….. Last night we were on patrol from 7pm to 10pm however because the rain and lightning was getting closer and closer, this meant we had to wait for an hour and a half until we did one walk of the beach and that was it. No ...

Oct 19th 2019

Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 12 – 86 turtle eggs moved to safety!

We were on the 2-5am patrol last night/this morning and we got very lucky with the weather and with turtles! Firstly, we came across an already buried nest which wasn’t in too good an area so therefore had to be excavated. I (Tom) pulled out 86 eggs ...

Oct 18th 2019

Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Days 10/11 – 81 baby turtles released into the sea

After a much needed rest day on day 10 of their trip, our intrepid volunteers were back to work yesterday…. Yesterday (Wednesday) I (Meg) spent the majority of my day off at the clinic in Nicoya having X Rays and tests, and so the doctor could ...

Oct 16th 2019

Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 9 – a broken rib and a baby armadillo!

Last night the yellow warning for flooding was no joke, the rain we had was ridiculous. Most of the track to the beach and to the main house was flooded, at one point it was so deep that it was up to our knees! I (Meg) had hatchery duties at 8pm and 9pm, ...

Oct 15th 2019

Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 8 – and still it rains!

We didn’t have a patrol last night so we got a full nights sleep which was much needed! I (Tom) was then awake for 5:30am to start my duties on the rain gauge and turtle hatchery. We had a lot of rain, it was the second highest it’s ever been this season! ...

Oct 14th 2019

Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 7 – Mangrove swamps and howler monkeys

Patrol last night was strange in that only one leader was available for the patrol, so that meant we had to walk the full length of the beach rather than just one half. By the time we got to the southern end of the beach, the heavens decided to open ...

Oct 13th 2019

Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 6 – Babies 2, 3 and 4!

We did the 2am to 5am patrol, and we were so lucky to have a very clear night and the moon was shining bright. Sadly we didn’t see any turtles but did find a poached nest that had been predated by a dog or raccoon. We stayed up to catch the sunrise but ...

Oct 12th 2019

Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 5 – Our first baby!

Today (Friday), we finished our patrol at 1am, sadly we didn’t see any turtles however the weather was good and we didn’t get too wet. I (Tom), had hatchery duty at 6am but no babies appeared, however to my delight there was a lonesome baby turtle ...

Oct 11th 2019

Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 4 – Turtle eggs galore!

Surreal, magical and indescribable! Last night (Wednesday) was our first patrol, we had the midnight until 3am shift, and when we got there our leader, Harriet, informed us that there was turtle on North Beach that the previous patrol had found. ...

Oct 10th 2019

Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Day 3 – Deluges, footballs and fencing

Our first night (Tuesday) at the project involved a patrol of the beach from 8pm until 11pm, however there was a huge thunderstorm and the heavens completely opened. Neither of us have ever seen a thunderstorm like it and it lasted for hours! ...

Oct 09th 2019

Costa Rica 2019 volunteer trip – Days 1/2 – Getting there!

Ever year BE Offices send two very lucky members of our team on a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience to help in less fortunate areas of the world. This year the destination is a turtle conservation project in Costa Rica Over the past few years ...

Oct 01st 2019

Fundraising tastes good at BE Offices for an 8th consecutive year

BE Offices, &Offices & Headspace clients help raise £2,340 on Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning For the eight consecutive year, clients and staff at BE Offices, & Offices and Headspace Group’s ...

Jun 14th 2018

Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 10 – Reduce, reuse, recycle

In previous blog posts I have talked about the different projects that ReefCI are working on, but during our time here it has become evident that there is a great deal to be said about the running of the island itself. ReefCI want to lead by example ...

Jun 13th 2018

Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 9 – She sells sea shells on the sea shore

*Tip: coffee can worsen sea sickness, so if it’s particularly choppy or if you suffer with it badly avoid it altogether just before getting on the boat. Tuesday was conch dive day, our job for one of the dives would be to find out the number ...

Jun 13th 2018

Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 8 – back to Tom Owen’s Caye

Another week in the office…. well on a desert island in the middle of the Caribbean! Monday morning Victoria and I had breakfast at a local cafe and went to the Hokey Pokey Water Taxi rank to meet the returning volunteers and new recruits. ...

Jun 12th 2018

Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Weekend – Mayan ruins and torrential rain!

After a week on the reef our travellers returned to the mainland for the weekend and some recreational time off…… We went to some Mayan ruins on Saturday which were incredible, it was so interesting to learn about their history and the ...

Jun 09th 2018

Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 5 – batten down the hatches!

*Tip: When it rains, it pours on the island and you had better make sure you leave nothing on the washing line when it does as it may well not be there in the morning! Thursday started as the previous two days had done, a pre-dive snack at 6.30 followed ...

Jun 08th 2018

Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 4 – Midweek madness – crash bang whallop!

*Tip: when diving or snorkelling, don’t touch anything and keep your limbs away from the coral. Many species of coral are venomous in order to protect them from predators. Pretty to look at, not to touch. Bad things come in threes so they ...

Jun 07th 2018

Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 3 – Tuesday…food bell and lionfish!

Tip: the bell is the most important sound on the island, it means gather in the living area. Everyone loves hearing it at 8am, 1pm and 7pm, because that means food is ready! The day starts early on Tom Owens Caye, there is coffee, fruit and snacks ...

Jun 07th 2018

Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 2 – There’s no hot water tap in island life!

Tip: try to be the first to shower in the evening, not because the water will run out if you’re the last, but because the top of the rainwater tank will have been heated by the sun and that’s the water that leaves the tank first. After ...

Jun 05th 2018

Belize 2018 volunteer trip – Day 1 – planes, trains and automobiles… oh and golf buggies too!

2 tube rides, 3 flights, 4 shuttle bus journeys, a golf buggy ride and a boat trip later and we’ve finally made it to the island! No, not Love Island, Tom Owens Caye! After three days of sitting on multiple modes of transport, Victoria and ...

Apr 24th 2018

BE Offices and &Meetings staff complete London Marathon and raise over £10.5k for charity

Rays of Sunshine, Leukaemia Care UK and Brain Research Trust benefit from BE Offices and &Meetings runners’ fundraising efforts We are very proud of our three members of staff who completed the Virgin London Marathon on Sunday ...

Oct 09th 2017

BE’s 2017 Macmillan Coffee Morning fundraising smashes previous totals

Fundraising tastes better at BE Offices with £3,000 raised for cancer charity For the sixth consecutive year, clients and staff at BE Offices’ portfolio of business centres across the City, Central and Greater London and across the South ...

Mar 23rd 2017

Students and the environment benefit from BE Charity Days

Two BE Offices employees were in action on volunteering missions this week, one at a secondary school careers fair, the other at the Greenwich Meantime Plant Nursery. Taking advantage of BE Offices’ “Charity Days” scheme, our PR ...

Mar 20th 2017

Frances uses BE Charity Day to volunteer as part of Fairtrade Fortnight

Since 2011 BE Offices has offered a “Charity Days” scheme for all its personnel with every staff member given three days per year paid leave to work for a charity of their choice. Fairtrade Fortnight has recently finished, a celebration ...

Dec 09th 2016

BE Offices’ MD happy to #BeMoreSanta in aid of Rays of Sunshine

Serviced offices company boss David Saul dons Christmas jumper and Santa hat and serves teas and coffees for the day to staff in support of children’s charity Rays of Sunshine It takes a certain kind of leader to swap roles with ...

Nov 03rd 2016

BE Offices Wembley welcomes Nicole Scherzinger

X-Factor judge surprises Rays of Sunshine Wish Choir at rehearsal for fundraising concert Ex-Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger was warmly welcomed to BE Offices’ Wembley business centre recently when she surprised the Rays of Sunshine ...

Oct 27th 2016

BE Offices hosts charity book signing event at Minories business centre

Meet the author and book signing event raises money for Rays of Sunshine Children’s Charity Self-published on Amazon David P Perlmutter’s debut novel WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME shot to the #1 bestseller spot on in the UK, Australia, Spain, ...

Oct 04th 2016

Fundraising tastes better at BE Offices

2016 – BE’s Macmillan Coffee Morning raises £2,500 For the fifth consecutive year, staff and clients at BE Offices’ network of business centres across the City, Central and Greater London and across the South East took time ...

Sep 18th 2016

BE Offices’ very own volunteer Ambassador for Meningitis Research Foundation is supporting Meningitis Awareness Week to help save lives

BE’s PR & Marketing Officer, Julie Tucker, warns people to know the symptoms of meningitis and act fast Julie is sharing her first-hand experience of meningitis during national Meningitis Awareness Week (19-25 September 2016) ...

Jul 14th 2016

BE Offices team participates in Great City Race for 9th consecutive year

£10,000+ raised for BE Offices nominated charity Rays of Sunshine over the years 24 employees from BE Offices and its associated companies will tonight take part in the 12th annual Standard Chartered Great City Race, BE’s 9th year of ...

Jul 07th 2016

The needy, students and children benefit from BE Charity Days

In 2011 BE Offices launched its “Charity Days” scheme for all team members with every staff member given 3 days per year paid leave to work for a charity of their choice. Three of our employees have been in charity action this month as follows: ...

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