Day Management Services

DAY MANAGEMENT SERVICES is owned and managed by Val and Giles Day. Giles graduated from Manchester University in 1970, with an honours degree in chemical engineering. He spent seven years in Chingola, Zambia with his wife, Val, working for the Anglo American Corporation. Val worked as a Secretary for K.B. Davies & Co., a subsidiary of the United Af... rica Company. Their daughter, Vanessa, was born in Chingola in 1975. On returning to the UK in 1977, Giles worked for a short time with Unilever in Warrington, Cheshire, before accepting an offer from an international mining consultancy firm at Ashford, Kent. Val worked for ten years as Assistant to the Club Secretary of Ashford Golf Club. Day Management Services was founded in January, 1989. Val and Giles have been married for 32 years. Their daughter is now 28 and followed in her father's footsteps to Manchester University where she gained a First in English. She is Marketing Director for an international I.T. publisher in London. Students had for many years experienced problems finding somewhere of a satisfactory standard to live in Canterbury, and since 1991, Day Management Services has specialised in meeting this demand. We have developed a reputation with both students and the accommodation offices of the University and colleges for providing a very fair and reliable service. As a result we usually achieve full occupancy between July and June the following year and our houses are often signed up to tenants by the end of March for the next academic year. Based at 23 Roper Close, we are the biggest agency in Canterbury dealing with students and therefore students come to us before going elsewhere. Advertisements in "Resident Abroad" and the "Daily Telegraph" in the mid Nineties generated a great deal of interest and we now have investors in 13 countries as well as the UK. Some of these investors have bought further properties. Due to a continuing demand for student properties by investors, we decided to expand our operations into another university centre and ...Read More