We are delighted to announce that Link ICT has moved to new offices on Royal Scot Road in Pride Park, Derby. We are also about to celebrate our 20th anniversary having been founded in 2004 by current Company Director Mark Fryers.
Until recently, the company and our team of 17 people were based at St Peters House on Mansfield Road in Derby. The move is a result of significant growth in the needs of the education sector and local businesses wanting to improve their ICT services and security.
The new two storey offices comprise of 1950 square feet of space. The offices have been fitted out to provide dedicated working areas for network managers, technicians and office staff as well as meeting rooms, kitchen facilities and bathroom facilities for team members who run or cycle to work. In addition, brand-new electric vehicle charging stations have been installed for both staff and company-owned vehicles to further support continued efforts to encourage more environmentally friendly living and lessen pollution.
Commenting on the move, Company Director Mark Fryers said, “Over the last year we have won several new contracts as well as projects related to the Government Connect the Classroom initiative. We also pride ourselves on our ability to build relationships with schools and businesses as their outsourced ICT partner which also helps them plan their long-term IT strategies. Whilst most technicians will be working out on site, we recognised the need to ensure our office base reflected the culture of our organisation and has the capacity for the additional team members we need to support this growth.”
He added, “Pride Park is an excellent location as we will be surrounded by other likeminded business owners which should also help us to expand the services we provide to the SME sector.”
Link ICT has a particular specialism working within school and educational organisations and a number of local businesses. Our business model is based on providing outsourced IT technicians who work on-site on set days and times because being on-site helps to ensure users understand IT and the cost and efficiency benefits of using IT are fully realised.
Also based at the new offices will be School Transition Limited, a division of Link ICT founded five years ago which offers a range of unique GDPR-compliant data transition portals for the education sector. School Transition is an innovative software that enables education customers such as nurseries, primary and secondary schools to seamlessly and securely transfer data for children transitioning between each stage.
School Transition began with a pilot project in Derby City and following the launch of other portals, it has been successfully rolled out to other schools and education authorities in Lincoln, Nottingham, Plymouth, and surrounding counties. Over 1,000 school and early education settings are now using the portals.