Avenue HQ, the pioneering flexible workspace provider, has marked its fifth anniversary at St. Paul’s Square, a major milestone celebrating half a decade of innovation and growth within the city’s booming business district. The anniversary was commemorated with a whole week of events, bringing together Avenue HQ’s community of current members, alumni, and supporters from the local ecosystem.
Since opening their doors in 2018, Avenue HQ has played a pivotal role in transforming the way businesses and professionals work, providing entrepreneurs, startups, and established enterprises with a flexible workspace solution, award-winning facilities including Barclays Eagle Labs, and a vibrant community to connect and collaborate with.
Highlights of the celebrations included a professional headshot workshop, exclusively for Avenue HQ members, a day of free hot-desking and Pitch & Pizza, Avenue HQ’s highly-anticipated pitching competition for the chance to win a year of free coworking, worth over £1500.
The event provided a platform for emerging entrepreneurs and businesses to pitch their ideas to a panel of esteemed judges including former Pitch & Pizza winner and international business development specialist, Bob Spence, Avenue HQ’s Workspace Director, Sarah Kelly, and Barclays Eagle Labs’ Ecosystem Manager, Sher Galer.
Gaby Mendes, founder of hit digital media channel Talk Twenties and 2022’s Pitch & Pizza winner, said: “Since [winning], we have grown into our own office space and now our own studio based in Avenue HQ Mann Island. We love it here! The people are amazing and it is such a lovely community to work in and to come to every single day.”
Participants were given 90 seconds to pitch themselves, their ideas and how they would use their membership at Avenue HQ. The judges were so astounded by the unique pitches delivered, from personal anecdotes to poems, that they decided to crown two winners; Alex Keyter, Founder of Generative Minds UK and Caitlin Lewing, Co-director of Girls on the Go. Everyone else who participated also received a month of free coworking.
“While celebrating our past achievements, we’re focused on the future.” said Workspace Director, Sarah Kelly. “We’re so proud of what the Avenue HQ community has achieved over the past five years. Flexible working has transformed people’s lives both professionally and personally, and we at Avenue HQ are delighted to have had a hand in that.”
Avenue HQ remains invested in providing their members with an award-winning experience and service. Continuously innovating ways to connect with local professional communities, such as Hot-desk Live, a one-of-a kind showcase designed to highlight Avenue HQ’s versatile coworking space and embrace Liverpool’s musical heritage.
The anniversary also marked the announcement of exciting new developments at their Leeds site, Avenue HQ East Parade, which are coming soon.
