Ready Steady Blog

In a recent study by the Government’s property watchdog, CABE, it was revealed we are living in ‘rabbit hutch Britain’, with new homes offering the smallest rooms in Europe. Our latest survey has found Brits are yearning for extra space in their homes, with a third dreaming of an extra bedroom. A home office and games room ranked highly in the survey as dream additions to the home, along with a playroom and home gym.

Our Manchester Worsley store is supporting Farnworth Salvation Army by donating much needed space at its storage facilities after The Salvation Army hall on King Street was sold and demolished. The charity had been left with no storage and its equipment was rapidly stored in houses, schoolrooms, church buildings and garden sheds – leaving it unsecured and at risk of damage.

We are pleased to announce a new partnership with Chapel Allerton Lawn Tennis & Squash Club. We have joined forces with the tennis and squash club to provide kit sponsorship for the junior performance teams.

Our Manchester Worsley store is supporting Support our Soldiers by donating much needed space at its storage facilities. The charity will use the storage to house shoe boxes filled with goodies and tubs of toiletries, which have been donated by the public and are awaiting package and despatch.

We are pleased to announce a new donation partnership with Doncaster Deaf Trust. We joined forces with the charity to provide much needed free 24 hour a day storage facilities and will be donating £50 whenever a new customer signs up to the Doncaster ready steady store and mentions Doncaster Deaf Trust.

Nearly a third of holidaymakers were lured by the prospect of a ‘staycation’ this summer, choosing to take their holidays closer to home in the UK or staying put at home.

A third of local businesses claim to have changed their product and service offering over the past six months according to our latest study.

When and where did self-storage arrive in the UK?
As with many new ideas that originate in the USA, self-storage was exported to the UK around 10 years later and so it was with self-storage. During the early 1980’s, a few low grade facilities started to appear in and around London in poor quality buildings, mainly [...]

The early self-storage entrepreneurs in the USA during the 1970’s came from a broad spectrum of life. One, for instance, was a young teacher who had nowhere to store his stuff during one summer vacation so the following summer he decided to open a store for people like himself and charge them a rent. Thus, [...]