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Score for St Peter’s Gate tenant
Richard Stonehouse, of Rich media Ltd has published a free national football magazine called Open Goal, thanks to Nstar’s new Creative Industries Fund support. Richard’s company was the first in the NE to be awarded this fund and means Open Goal should soon be at a football stadium near you.

At last, it’s a girl – or two!
St Peter’s Gate opened its doors as a business incubator for the University of Sunderland over three years ago and since then has not had a single female director running any of the 37 businesses that have set up in the building.
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One stop shop for lifestyle management
Two new companies at St Peter’s Gate could solve all your lifestyle dilemmas at a stroke. Sam Ellsworth and Chris Mileham have set up Breakthrough Hypnotherapy to help people lose weight...
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A fast mover
Dr Philip Tann opened the first company to move into St Peter’s Gate in June 2004 with Tann Autopoietics. He has recently been hitting the national headlines after his speeding conviction was quashed in court. Although clocked at 42mph by the police, Philip’s GPS-based system which records his location and speed was able to prove he was driving at only 29mph at the time. Not one to bear a grudge, Phil is now offering to check thousands of police speeding convictions for accuracy using his company’s image recognition software that can quickly show a car’s speed using the photos taken by the police cameras.

Graduate sets up 3-D animation company
The latest company to sign-up for a unit at St Peter’s Gate is Artificial Reality Creations (ARC). Set up by Graham Cammock, an ex-graduate of Teesside University, the company creates 3-D animated models for industry to help visualisation and sales presentations. As well as Graham, ARC employs one other graduate..
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Golfing website proves a hit
St Peter’s Gate is also home to golfing-worldwide.com ­ a website listing golf courses around the world. The company was set up by Brian Lawson in 2000 as a part-time interest, but quickly became a much bigger concern and in 2004 Brian transferred the business to ‘Limited Company’ status and moved into St Peter’s Gate.
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CREATIVE BUSINESSES THRIVING ON WEARSIDE
As the home for creative businesses on Wearside celebrates its second successful birthday - Sunderland’s growing reputation as a hotbed of creative talent and thriving cultural companies seems sealed.
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Sunderland Business Centre celebrates first year success
Enterprise and innovation is thriving in Sunderland with the help of St Peter’s Gate, a state-of-art business centre based at Sunderland Science Park, that is now celebrating its first year of operation.
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