Security guarding
SIA-licensed manned guarding, mobile patrols, key holding and alarm response.
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Security, Facilities & Fire Safety in Manchester
Manned guarding, facilities management and fire-safety services across Greater Manchester, covering Manchester, Salford and the wider city-region.
Services in Manchester
Three disciplines, one local partner.
Facilities management
Hard and soft FM, cleaning, maintenance and grounds for commercial sites.
Learn more →Fire safety & waking watch
Fire warden cover, waking watch and compliance support for residential and commercial buildings.
Learn more →Covering Manchester
Ashridge Group provides SIA-licensed manned guarding, facilities management and waking watch across Greater Manchester, covering Manchester, Salford and the wider city-region. We cover corporate offices, MediaCityUK, logistics estates, student accommodation and high-rise residential with SIA-licensed, BS 7858-vetted officers and relief cover so there are never gaps.
Greater Manchester is the UK’s largest economy outside London. Its financial heart is Spinningfields, a £1.5 billion central business district home to major banks and professional-services firms, alongside the NOMA neighbourhood (around 4 million sq ft of mixed-use space) and the media and digital cluster at MediaCityUK and Salford Quays, home to the BBC and ITV. Multi-tenanted offices and broadcast sites here need integrated manned guarding, front-of-house reception and facilities management.
Logistics is the city-region’s other engine. Trafford Park, the largest industrial estate in Europe at around 4.6 square miles, has over 1,400 companies and about 35,000 workers (Amazon, DHL, Unilever, Procter & Gamble). It sits alongside Logistics North on the M61 and the World Freight Terminal and Airport City by Manchester Airport. With the M60 ring road plus the M56 and M62, these warehouses and factories drive constant demand for 24/7 gatehouse and yard security, access control and out-of-hours patrols.
Major regeneration keeps construction-site security in demand, including Mayfield (a 20-acre district with up to 1,500 homes and a new 6.5-acre city park), NOMA and Victoria North. Greater Manchester has a particularly high concentration of high-rise residential with serious fire-safety defects. Surveys identified hundreds of affected buildings, and a Greater Manchester high-rise survey recorded 57 buildings using interim measures such as waking watch. Where a building’s safety case requires it we provide compliant, NFCC- and Building Safety Act-aligned waking watch and fire patrols, helping transition to common-alarm systems under the Waking Watch Replacement Fund.
Sectors we can secure across Manchester
- City-centre corporate offices (Spinningfields, NOMA)
- Media & digital (MediaCityUK, Salford Quays)
- Logistics & warehousing (Trafford Park, Airport City)
- Universities & student accommodation
- High-rise & PRS residential, waking watch
- Construction & city-centre regeneration (Mayfield)
Areas we cover: Manchester city centre, Salford, Trafford Park, MediaCityUK, the Airport City corridor and the wider Greater Manchester city-region.
FAQs: Manchester
We can mobilise at short notice, often the same day, via our 24/7 control room on 0800 085 5022, with out-of-hours guarding and gatehouse control for city-centre and Salford Quays construction sites.
Yes. Trafford Park and M60-corridor logistics is core work: 24/7 gatehouse and yard security, access control and out-of-hours patrols for warehouses, factories and distribution units.
Yes. Integrated manned guarding, CCTV monitoring, access control, keyholding and mobile patrols across Trafford Park, Logistics North and the airport-adjacent logistics parks.
Yes. We deliver manned guarding, front-of-house concierge and access control for multi-tenant offices in Spinningfields, NOMA and across the city centre.
Yes. Mobile patrols, keyholding and out-of-hours alarm response for single sites or multi-site portfolios across Greater Manchester, from one control room.
Yes. Greater Manchester has a high concentration of fire-safety-defect high-rises; we provide compliant, NFCC- and Building Safety Act-aligned waking watch and fire patrols where a building’s safety case requires it, and help transition to common alarms under the Waking Watch Replacement Fund.
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