Workhubs - establishing a live/work business facility

We offer developers, local authorities, regional development agencies and regeneration partnerships expert advice to help them set up:
· shared facilities in attractive communal areas
· projects that bring together and support previously isolated/fragmented micro businesses, especially those based at home

Visit www.workhubs.co.uk for more information

WHAT WE OFFER
We offer consultancy services to enable local authorities, business support agencies, RDAs and live/work developers to create effective home based business hubs - and human networking projects to run them

These 'workhubs' can either be based in existing appropriate facilities or in new developments such as live/work schemes

We can advise o­n:
· where a hub should be located
· who should run it
· group constitutions
· access to funding
· the best kind of website and email news systems
· appropriate staffing or voluntary support
· outputs systems to track impact and prove worth
· ways to gather members and make home based businesses visible
· shared buying power
· effective ways to consult without 'survey fatigue'
· systems to maximise members' profitability and collaborative working 




OUR WORK
We have advised o­n hub specifications for projects including
· Live/Work Eco Park (Falmouth)
· Burford Wharf (Stratford, East London)
· Napton Brickworks (Warwickshire)
· St Erth Workstation (St Ives)
· Perran Foundry (Truro)
· Swan Court (Petersfield, Hants)
· Headland Creative Business Quarter (Penzance)