Once home to Halifax’s pioneering fashion designer and textile entrepreneur Elsie Whiteley, the new Elsie Whiteley Innovation Centre marks not only Halifax’s thriving creative past as a leading industrial textile hub but embraces the regions future as a base where digital and new media companies can develop their businesses.
The Elsie Whiteley Innovation Centre provides over 14,000 square feet of contemporary and quality serviced office space designed to meet the needs of forward thinking and fast moving creative and digital businesses operating in global markets and innovative niches.

Designed to ensure an inspirational working environment available at competitive rates and first rate IT infrastructure, an art and innovation gallery, a trendy café, state of the art conference facilities and creatively designed indoor and outdoor space, the Elsie Whiteley Innovation Centre has been tailored to satisfy the specific needs of every stage of companies’ lives, since part of the accommodation is dedicated to pre-start and incubation support through subsidized rent, on site daily business support and networking opportunities.

The Elsie Whiteley Innovation Centre is also home to the European Centre for AIDC (Automatic Identification and Data Capture) Technologies. Managed by AIDC UK the AIDC Centre has a multi purpose theatre with accommodation for 70 delegates plus a state of the art demonstration area capable of showing practical uses of the technologies.

This is of course a major coup for the Centre, attracting many innovative small businesses all eager to be part of what will, in no time, turn into the starting point of an exciting innovation cluster.