City Of London Corporation’s Culture Mile Partners With BE Offices

• London-based BE Offices is providing free office space for a cultural initiative, Culture Mile. 
• The partnership will allow Culture Mile to use the space as a hub for creative collaboration throughout the summer. 
• It forms part of a joint initiative that aims to create a new destination for creativity, innovation, and learning in the north-west corner of the Square Mile. 

BE Offices are to provide free-of-charge office space to the City of London’s cultural district Culture Mile this summer, as part of the Lord Mayor’s Culture and Commerce Taskforce, Create in the City initiative. 

Chaired by the Lord Mayor of the City of London and led by the City of London Corporation and Culture Mile, the Culture and Commerce Taskforce, Create in the City is part of a series of pilot projects recommended in the Fuelling Creative Renewal report, published earlier this year. 

It aims to repurpose commercial space as creative workspace hubs, providing flexible spaces fit for a post-pandemic world. 

The partnership will allow Culture Mile to use the space as a hub for creative collaboration throughout the summer.  

Located on Beech Street, BE Offices Barbican is right at the heart of Culture Mile, the City’s cultural district, which runs from Farringdon to Moorgate. Led by the City of London Corporation, along with its partners Barbican, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London Symphony Orchestra and Museum of London, the five partners are together are creating a new destination for creativity, innovation, and learning in the north-west corner of the Square Mile. 

This is the second testbed project to be announced by the Culture and Commerce Taskforce this month, with NDT Broadgate – a major new Artist Development Complex opening in the City of London in July — offering rehearsal rooms, design studios, and offices for artists to use throughout the year. 

This partnership between Culture Mile and BE Offices is exactly the sort of initiative that we need to start to bring people back to the City and help the area once again to be a dynamic, vibrant place to be. 

Sitting alongside a diverse mix of SMEs, start-ups and growing businesses from across different sectors, this partnership will explore how physical spaces can provide an opportunity to truly share knowledge and skills across the commercial, creative and civic sectors, growing a deeper relationship across sectors that will really boost London’s economic growth, particularly supporting the area’s post-Covid recovery.

 

Lord Mayor of the City of London, William Russell

Being situated right in the middle of the Culture Mile, our Beech Street building could not be more perfectly located for the Culture Mile project team, and we are delighted to be able to offer them a temporary home. This partnership will test the range of mutual benefits that a collaborative model can offer both creative and commercial organisations and we are only too happy to support an initiative which seeks to secure the City’s creative future and accelerate recovery.

Derren Jennings, Sales Director at BE Offices