BUSINESS IS LOOKING HEALTHY IN MILTON KEYNES

The Bucks Biz network of properties in Milton Keynes is home to a variety of this summer’s business successes. These include the launch and expansion of specialist gyms in Denbigh, while Interchange Business Centre in Newport Pagnell is accommodating a sell-out monthly charity networking event and providing overflow parking for Aston Martin’s famous auction.

Emma Hayes is launching bodybuilding gym, Muscle Power, at Buckingham House from 29 June. Fit Body Boot Camp more than doubled its capacity when it moved into MK:One on 6 May.

Muscle Power will have a champion bodybuilder managing its gym who, together with Emma, intends to dispel myths about the sport in a friendly atmosphere for people of all ages and experience.

“I’m keeping this particular champ’s name under wraps until our grand opening. However, I can tell you that it’s his dream to manage his own gym, and it made perfect business sense to me. Bodybuilding is a fabulous community in which I want to invest and become part of,” commented Emma, who only weighs eight stone herself.

High levels of demand for Fit Body Boot Camp, which provides group weight-loss and workout regimes, meant relocating to a dedicated facility in MK:One. This enabled business partners and fitness instructors Helen Colby and Neil Major to double the number of weekday training sessions they run, and open on Saturdays and Sundays for the first time.

Meanwhile, at the Interchange Business Centre, Vicky Beale, director of Rapid Sales Solutions, hosted a new monthly charity networking event in aid of MK Dons SET.

Benefiting from the support of Bucks Biz, the first event on 10 May sold out well in advance, as did the event in June. Tickets for July are now available. Each meeting includes a professional speaker and is limited to 30 delegates. It is one of the few networking meetings to provide members with ‘open book’ networking, which means that, just by joining, you receive the delegate list for each meeting, even if you are unable to attend.

There is never a dull moment at Bucks Biz as the centre’s director, Dominic Muscat, loaned  part of the car park at Interchange Business Centre to provide overflow parking for the Aston Martin auctions on 18 May. It temporarily morphed the tarmac from a business executive’s parking area to a motor enthusiast’s dream.