OUR VISION
A better place to do business.
G-Life's ambition is to create a national network of premium, environmentally responsible business villages designed around small businesses and the people behind them.
Places where having a small business doesn't mean settling for a poorer working environment.
Where businesses can have their own private space while benefiting from green surroundings, shared facilities, useful services and a community of other independent businesses.
And where the working day fits more naturally alongside the rest of life.
Not an office park. Not a coworking space. A business village.
From a workspace to a village.
G-Life is designed to remain human in scale even as it grows.
Every business begins with its own private, dedicated workspace.
Small groups of workspaces form Clusters, arranged around shared green space and given their own identity through sensory planting.
Groups of Clusters form Branches — neighbourhoods within the wider village, each identified by its own feature tree.
Multiple Branches then come together to create a G-Life Business Village, sharing facilities, infrastructure, services and green spaces.
WORKSPACE → CLUSTER → BRANCH → VILLAGE
So rather than simply working from Unit 27 on an industrial estate, your business might one day have an address such as:
Rosemary Cluster, Apple Branch.
The larger G-Life becomes, the more important it is that it still feels like somewhere people belong.
Premium shouldn't mean exclusive.
We believe very small businesses should be able to work somewhere brilliant too.
G-Life villages will offer different sizes and types of private workspace, allowing businesses to choose the space appropriate to their needs and budget.
We reduce the size of the workspace to make it affordable — not the quality of the environment around it.
Our ambition is for some of our smallest private workspaces to be available at around the price someone might otherwise pay for a desk in a coworking space.
Everyone still belongs to the same village.
But choosing a smaller workspace shouldn't mean receiving a second-class environment.
The same green surroundings. The same community. The same shared facilities. The same attention to the quality of the environment around them.
Designed around your whole working day.
Running a small business doesn't happen separately from the rest of life.
Children need care. Dogs need walking. People need to eat. Meetings happen. Deliveries arrive. And small-business owners often spend valuable parts of their day travelling between all of them.
Our long-term vision is to create an ecosystem of complementary businesses and services within G-Life that can make the working day easier.
That doesn't mean G-Life operating everything itself.
Where appropriate, we'll create opportunities for independent businesses to tender for space within our villages, providing services that benefit both the businesses based there and the wider community.
Independent businesses supporting independent businesses.
Bring your dog to work. Genuinely.
Being dog-friendly should mean more than simply putting a water bowl outside reception.
We want G-Life villages to be designed so that, where appropriate, people can genuinely bring their dog to work.
Green spaces and walking areas can become part of everyday village life, while larger villages could create commercial opportunities for independent dog walkers, groomers and other pet-related businesses.
A secure exercise field could provide bookable space for dogs and their owners — including members of the wider community.
There is also growing evidence that appropriately managed dogs in the workplace can contribute positively to wellbeing, including reduced stress and increased social interaction.
Imagine working from your own private space while an independent dog walker collects your dog for its afternoon walk — or having the dog groomed while you're working rather than losing part of your weekend.
Bring your dog to work — and let the village help you look after them.
A village that can support families too.
As G-Life grows, we want to explore opportunities for independent childcare providers to become part of appropriate villages.
This wouldn't simply mean putting a conventional nursery beside an office development.
Our ambition would be to find providers who can make appropriate use of the natural environment around G-Life — allowing planting, wildlife, growing, trees and the changing seasons to provide additional opportunities for outdoor learning and play.
The childcare provider would remain an independent specialist business responsible for its own professional, regulatory and safeguarding requirements.
But its location could transform the working day for some small-business owners.
Imagine arriving at G-Life with your child and your dog.
Your child goes to childcare within the village.
Your dog comes to your workspace with you.
Later, the village dog walker collects them.
You walk to your own private workspace and start your working day.
Your business and your life don't always have to exist in completely separate places.
Spaces to create.
Not every small business needs a desk and an office.
Some need somewhere to make, photograph, film, record or create.
As villages develop, G-Life could introduce specialist and bookable facilities that would be expensive for individual microbusinesses to provide for themselves.
These could include maker and creator spaces, product photography facilities, photography studios, green-screen/content spaces and podcast or recording studios.
A home-based creator could have somewhere suitable to make their products.
A village business could photograph those products professionally.
Another business could create its promotional content.
And specialist facilities could be shared rather than every business having to buy equipment it only occasionally needs.
Own the business. Share the expensive infrastructure.
Businesses supporting businesses.
The café, dog groomer, childcare provider or photographer shouldn't simply be regarded as amenities provided for G-Life tenants.
They are businesses too.
A mature G-Life village could create opportunities for carefully selected independent operators whose presence makes the whole community stronger.
An independent café could provide somewhere to eat, meet and connect.
A dog walker gains a community of potential customers.
A groomer can serve dogs already spending their day in the village.
A childcare provider gains proximity to working parents.
Creative businesses can provide services to other businesses around them.
And G-Life businesses themselves can buy from, collaborate with and recommend one another.
Where appropriate, opportunities could be offered through a transparent selection or tender process, considering not simply what an operator can pay for space but what they can contribute to the village around them.
When one business adds value to another, the whole village becomes stronger.
Nature isn't decoration.
Nature shouldn't be something added around the edges once everything else has been designed.
At G-Life, we want it to become part of the infrastructure.
Trees can identify neighbourhoods. Living walls can define spaces. Sensory planting can give Clusters their identity. Green areas can provide places to meet, walk, work outside or simply step away from the desk.
We also want our villages to support biodiversity — including creating opportunities for managed beekeeping on suitable sites. One day, the honey produced by those bees might even be something visitors can buy from the village café.
Alongside nature, we'll explore renewable energy, solar-covered parking, battery storage, EV charging, responsible use of resources and circular materials as we work towards our long-term ambition of creating genuinely carbon-negative and environmentally positive villages.
Not green claims. Measurable progress.
Prove it. Measure it. Improve it.
Part of the community.
G-Life shouldn't be a gated business park that only has a purpose for the people renting space there.
Parts of our villages should be places the wider community can visit and enjoy.
Come for a coffee. Walk through the green spaces. Book the dog field. Use the childcare service. Visit one of our businesses. Buy something made in the village — perhaps even a jar of G-Life honey.
Public access creates customers and opportunities for the independent businesses based at G-Life while allowing the village to contribute something to the community around it.
Private working areas remain private, with the village designed to move naturally from public spaces → shared spaces → private business spaces.
And throughout the village, we'll continue one of the principles that begins with our pilot:
Make better use of what we already have.
Reuse. Repurpose. Recycle. Then consider new.
From one village to many.
Our first West Yorkshire pilot starts small: one Branch, four Clusters and up to 18 businesses.
Its job is to prove what works.
If it does, our ambition is to take what we learn and create something much bigger:
A national network of G-Life Business Villages.
Each recognisably G-Life, but shaped by its own location, landscape and community.
Different trees. Different planting. Different businesses. Different facilities.
The same principles.
Private workspace. Premium surroundings. Accessible pricing. Independent businesses supporting each other. Nature integrated from the beginning.
A better place to do business.
WORK • CONNECT • GROW
We're starting in West Yorkshire.
Our first G-Life pilot will test the idea in the real world — creating up to 18 affordable private workspaces in a greener, more welcoming business environment.
