Office

The outside of our offices

Wikimedia UK's office is in London:

Postal address

Wikimedia UK

Ground Floor, Europoint

5-11 Lavington Street

London

England

SE1 0NZ

Coordinates & Maps

51.524483, -0.084477

on Open Street Map

on Google Maps

Telephone

0203 0372 0760

International +44 203 0372 0760

Directions

(Bank branch) File:BR arrows.png (Northern City Line)	Old Street	0.2 miles (~5 minutes' walk)
(Bank branch) File:BR arrows.png (Northern City Line)	Moorgate	0.5 mile (~11 minutes' walk)

A map of the area around Development House (marked with a red X). Click for details.

The closest tube station is Old Street, which is on the Northern Line, two stops from King's Cross/St Pancras.

At Old Street tube station, follow signs to Subway 2 (green) turn left if you need a ramp, and then continue South (on City Road, heading away from the roundabout) for less than a minute on foot to get to Leonard Street and then east on Leonard Street (first left after Sainsbury's shop) for just over 100 meters. Development House is on the corner with Paul Street.

If you are arriving at Heathrow airport, then take the Piccadilly underground service to King's Cross, where you should change to Northern Line heading south to Old Street or you can take the Heathrow Link (more expensive than the underground but faster) or the Heathrow Express (even more expensive and even faster) to Paddington and then the Hammersmith and City line or the Circle line from Paddington to Moorgate.

From Stanstead Airport trains come to Liverpool Street station which is about 15 minutes walk from the office or you can take the 135 bus to Ravey St and walk from there.

From Gatwick Airport the trains run to Victoria and to London Bridge/St Pancras. Get a train to London Bridge and the Northern Line from there to Old St station.

In addition, there is a Barclays Cycle Hire station (known locally as "Boris Bikes") just outside the building ("Leonard Circus, Shoreditch"). The service requires a credit/debit card payment of £2 for 24 hours' access (for casual users), after which you borrow a bike for up to 30 minutes at no extra cost. The office is within viable walking or cycling distance (<5 miles) of all main line railway termini and the majority of central London. For motorists, limited car parking is available in the vicinity of the office; it should be noted that not only is Leonard Street within the congestion charge zone, but also that many businesses in the vicinity have no parking facilities for either staff or visitors. Public transport may be a better option than driving.

Opening hours

Development House is open to the public from 09:00-17:00 Monday-Friday. At other times by arrangement. We have a small staff so please check before visiting to avoid disappointment but we welcome visitors.

For events

Development House has several meeting rooms with WiFi that Wikimedia UK has access to, although they require booking.

For visitors

We have several laptops available in the office for visitors to use, including a Macbook, a Chromebook and a few laptops with Windows 7 and Ubuntu. We also have monitors (VGA/DVI/HDMI), keyboards and mice (USB) for visitors to plug their own laptop into. Free WiFi is also available.

Nearby accommodation

Coming soon

Catering arrangements

Wikimedia UK has its own supplies of coffee, tea bags and sugar. Sandwiches, pizza etc can be supplied by external caterers for events held at the office.

Nearby eating

Cafés and fast food outlets

Near the the office there are several sandwich bar-type places including:

• Pret a Manger (at the end of the road)
• Subway
• Eat
• pod
• Several local delicatessens with a few minutes' walk, including the Castle Sandwich Bar, the staff's café of choice!

There are a couple of supermarkets including a Sainsbury's and a Tesco Metro.