Digital Media Centre
About Barnsley
A growing number of digital and media based companies are choosing Barnsley as their preferred business location; it's not hard to see why. Barnsley has been named Europe's third most cost effective business location in a global study that compared business costs*.
The market town is unrecognisable thanks to an ambitious £380 million redevelopment project to regenerate the local economy. Projects include The Civic, Gateway Plaza, the Queens Hotel, the redevelopment of Barnsley Markets, the Transport Interchange and Westgate Plaza, the new civic offices.
Benefits:
- Barnsley offers some of the highest grant funding available in the UK.
- The town is strategically located. It is little more than a mile from Junction 37 of the M1 motorway. Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester all within easy reach and London is just 90 minutes away. This level of accessibility means Barnsley based businesses can service clients from across the UK.
- Some of the biggest and most successful creative, digital and media agencies in the UK are based in the region enabling Barnsley businesses to draw on a rich pool of talent and benefit from an ever increasing reputation as an area of creative excellence.
- Barnsley has a proactive and highly experienced Business Support Team within Barnsley Development Agency who can provide free assistance to businesses locating to the Digital Media Centre with all aspects of their relocation.
- The Digital Media Centre is located in the town centre close to an excellent mix of shops, restaurants, cafe theatres, museums, art galleries, hotels, sports and leisure facilities and within a ten minute drive you can be in the heart of some of the UK's most beautiful countryside.
www.barnsleydevelopmentagency.co.uk
* KPMG's 2008 Competitive Alternatives study www.competitivealternatives.com/download/default.asp
