Latest News – 21 December 2022

2022 round-up from founding director paul horne

Well, that was a busy and exciting 20th year for Blue Jelly!

The first post covid year saw the ‘Return to the Workplace’ gather real momentum, with businesses and employees seeing the significant value in collaborating, mentoring, developing, and socialising as a team. Central to this positive view is how design and technology in a workplace continues to evolve. In most organisations, the sea of desks, static meeting rooms, and breakout areas geared up for the lunch breaks have been replaced with a variety of appropriate work settings, social areas, and meeting zones to support focus, collaboration, and video conferencing. This is providing an exciting and refreshing change from working at home.

At Blue Jelly we continue to value our client base and have been working with them to support their changing business and staff needs. Despite their diverse industries, we all share a passion for creative and appropriate workplaces to support both hybrid and office-based teams.  It was great to deliver new regional workplaces for leading legal practice; Irwin Mitchell and professional services provider; Haines Watts in numerous locations throughout the South coast, Midlands, and South West.

Refurbishment in Occupation (RIO) was also a key part of our business in ’22, companies chose to stay put and agreed key areas of refurbishment and modernization with their landlords.

Being our 20th year, it was fantastic to once again work with our longest-standing client Investec, to deliver a significant refurbishment in occupation to their Reading workplace at Campus. This was the 3rd project in 18 years for Investec in their Reading office.

2022 also showed a significant increase in new ‘End user’, Project management, and Landlord clients. We have created some fabulous workplaces for Cincom in Maidenhead, Croxsons in South London, and Cisco on the South coast to name a few.

Reflecting the changes and expansion in our market, Blue Jelly implemented the biggest changes since we launched in 2002 as we welcomed Jon Odey, Calvin Williams, and Mark Bradburn ‘Bradders’ as Directors to join Kevin, Scott, and I.

We have also welcomed several others to the team who share our passion for workplace evolution. Joining our dedicated existing team we will still deliver that ‘Blue Jelly Thing’ in terms of service, process, quality, and personality.

With this expanded team, Blue Jelly look forward to an exciting 2023. Delivering fabulous projects for our clients both existing and new.

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Last week our team collected mince pies, Christmas puddings, selection boxes, crackers, boxes of chocolate and stuffing & gravy for @windsorfoodshare to give out this Christmas. Well done team Blue Jelly!

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This is our recently completed project to build a 6,000 Sqft flagship office for a Marlow based, global audio and sound experience company.

The brief was to create a modern, flexible workplace for their team whilst providing unique, top-of-the-line customer experience spaces for product demonstrations. Our team created bespoke joinery solutions to enable interchangeable product placement to suit differing customer needs.

Introducing @energyaspects at @cargo.london, Canary Wharf. Ben Lark, Senior Designer has created a space that flows with curved ceiling lighting, biophilic design, clean lines, premium furniture and subtle, brand-led wall art. Working alongside the team at @coreprojectservices on this project was delightful, as always.

#WorkplaceTransformation #CanaryWharf #DesignAndBuild #EnergyAspects #OfficeRelocation

Congratulations to the Blue Jelly team for cycling 700km in 24 hours to raise vital funds for @oceanconservationtrust. The aim was to cycle the distance Eton to Epernay, 544km. We completed this distance by 6am and decided to push onward and see how far we could go. This year we aim to raise £20,000 for Ocean Conservation Trust.

At the centre of @Croxsons new workplace sits the iconic bar area, hugged by a corrugated bar wall in duck egg blue. The bespoke wooden shelving and back bar create a double layered frame for Croxsons products which peak through the semi-transparent, distressed mirrored glass. This recently completed project oozes quality from the designs right through to the furniture.

A glorious sunny day @ascotracecourse for Royal Ascot ☀️🍾🥂

Thank you to our brilliant supplier, Proform Interiors, for inviting our team along for a brilliant day out.

An inspirational design that creates a luxury, members club look and encourages collaboration. Alliots’ new office is set within a beautiful building in the heart of Covent Garden. High-quality fabrics, curved lines and beautiful lighting pieces frame the distinctive, open plan spaces.

Celebrating 15 Years of Becky Sykes! Congratulations and a big thank you to our People and Operations Manager, Becky for 15 years of service at Blue Jelly. Becky supports our team across all departments making sure the whole business works like a well oiled machine.

Our two year partnership with @oceanconservationtrust will help protect and revitalise the natural habitats of our Oceans. We’ll be raising funds for the Blue Meadows initiative which is actively restoring and protecting the oxygen producing seagrass fields in our Oceans. #ThinkOcean #ESG #OceanConservationTrust