About Us
Experienced, Expertise & Complimentary Skillsets
Born from humble beginnings, Business Centres Direct started as a collaboration between colleagues who saw the unique benefits of their collective skillsets and experience, and also saw a huge injustice in the sheer vastness of prime premises sitting unused. Business Centres Direct was built to do one thing: turn underused commercial centres into prosperous, collaborative places.
With over two decades of combined experience in the commercial property sector, the management team at Business Centres Direct offer a unique set of skills, perfectly aligned to revitalise vacant commercial premises into thriving, revenue-generating space. What unique set of skills are these, we hear you ask? A winning combination of marketing mavericks, sales strategists, HR heroes and fitout fanatics create a team who can transform underperforming buildings into dynamic, functional workspaces. We don’t just fill a space and move on; we’re there for it all from broker management, to tenancy renewals and even choosing the right IT infrastructure to complement your space.
Dean Kirk
Director
Currently managing over £15m worth of commercial and industrial property across the UK. Spent the last 10 years in commercial space sector supported by 15 years sales & marketing management in the digital and business information sector.
Simon Gathergood
Director
Currently managing over £20m worth of commercial, retail and residential property across the UK. Spent the last 15 years in the commercial space sector providing design & layouts as part of his project management and maintenance duties.
Why Now Is The Perfect Time
The long and short of it is simple; we see the potential in you, and we see the potential in your unused space, but we know first hand how difficult it can be to manage brokers, sales, client pitches and all the rest of it. That’s why we’ve created Business Centres Direct: two distinct services, with two expert teams under one roof. One to manage your space, the other to transform it, so you don’t have to juggle five different contractors just to get one job done.
We’ve seen a decline in commercial space use for the last 5 years but the UK commercial property market was valued at £1.3 trillion in Q1 2025. Vacancy rates have spiked to over 8%, which is the highest since 2015, meaning now is the time to strike. With more quality buildings sitting idle, there’s never been a better time to step in and unlock their potential. That’s where we come in: to jump-start performance, enhance returns, and keep spaces busy.
So far, we’ve achieved this in Failsworth, Huddersfield, Radford, Lenton, Nottingham, Cardiff, Stockton, Sunderland, Derby and Plymouth, and we’re just getting warmed up.
Customer Says
We had 1,700 square foot of space that was vacant for 4-6 months with not a big budget for conversion. Business Centres Direct offered a budget that would allow us to create 7 offices at 1,300 square foot billable, a meeting room, a new kitchen and a new comms line to provide private and secure comms. Excellent job, early ETA and on budget. Business Centres Direct also let the offices and now manage the serviced office operation. - Great experience.
We met with Dean & Simon as we had only a couple of tenants. They came in developed a plan to market the centre, to make it serviced office as opposed to meeting room focussed. Within 5 months, we were fully occupied, new flooring upgrades were made, a large office re-customisation had took place and we had installed a new leased line to provide better internet and comms.
Our 3,500 square foot open-plan office in Sunderland was gathering dust. BCD provided us with a project plan that showed we could use the space to develop 15 smaller serviced offices. This was a game changer, they developed site, upgraded the toilets and kitchens and we are now ready to roll out the sales and marketing plans to fill our new serviced offices.