🧭 100 Spaces, One Day: A Call to Action for London’s Coworking Community

📣 Why 100 Spaces on One Day Can Change Everything

This isn’t about writing a manifesto.

This is the manifesto. A call for coworking spaces across London to show what’s possible—together.

On 14 May 2025, we’re asking 100 coworking spaces in London to open their doors—to connect with their communities, welcome new faces, and show the city what coworking really looks like.

This isn’t just a statement. It’s a starting point.

Hundreds of European coworking spaces will join on 14 May 2025 for the 3rd European Coworking Day.

This is our London manifesto—a call to 100 spaces across the city to join in and show the world what coworking looks like when it’s local, connected, and community-powered.

Whether you’re a space operator, a supplier, or someone in local government, this is your invitation to be part of something bigger.

🧠 What You’ll Get Out of This:

✅ Real people walking in the door—from your neighbourhood, borough, and future member base.

✅ Clear, simple event ideas that don’t drain your team or budget.

✅ Support from peers—planning is easier when not doing it alone.

✅ Visibility across London & Europe—as part of the 100 spaces leading the way.

✅ A fresh reason to connect with your members and local community.

✅ Momentum for future events—because this will show people what your space can do.

🛠 Here’s Exactly How to Take Part (Step-by-Step)

Want to take part?
Here’s how to do it—clearly, simply, and without overthinking it.

1. Register your space
Let people know you’re taking part by listing your space on the official European Coworking Day website → Here
This puts you on the map (literally) so others can find you.

2. Join the event planning workshops
These live, hands-on sessions help you develop the right event idea for your space.
You’ll get feedback, clarity, and community support. → Here

3. Plan your event
It can be as simple as a coffee morning or an open house.
We’ll help you figure out what works for your community.

4. Open your doors on 14 May
Host your event, take a few photos, and invite people to experience coworking in London.

5. Share what happened
Post photos, reflections, or stories from your event—so others can learn from you, and we can show the bigger picture of coworking across the city.

This Isn’t Just a Campaign. It’s a Call.

To connect. To show up.
To remind London—and Europe—what coworking is really for.

Not just desks. Not just Wi-Fi.
Real human infrastructure.

On 14 May 2025, coworking spaces across London will open their doors—some for a coffee chat, some for a workshop, some to say, “Come in, meet us.”

It’s European Coworking Day.
And this year, we’re aiming for 100 independently owned coworking spaces in London to participate.

Why Now?

Because we’re living in a time of disconnection.

🧱 People are divided.

📉 Trust in politics and media is at an all-time low.

🧍‍♂️🧍‍♀️ Loneliness is rising—even in cities full of people.

Coworking spaces quietly do the work that brings people together.

They create spaces of belonging—through daily work, shared coffee, honest conversations, and open-door events.

They’re one of the last places where people can build real communities without needing permission, credentials, or a big budget.

This is one small way to knit things back together in a society that is pulling apart.

What’s Happening

The Swiss Coworking Association organises European Coworking Day with the European Coworking Assembly.

On 14 May, coworking spaces across Europe will run simple, local events to help people discover what coworking is about.

The London Coworking Assembly is leading the push in the UK—with one clear goal:

🎯 100 coworking spaces participating across London.

Why?

Because when 100 spaces act together, people start to pay attention.

What’s In It for Your Space?

✅ New faces walking through the door—who never knew you were here.

✅ New members, collaborators, and local buzz—without a big budget.

✅ A moment of visibility that builds long-term recognition.

This isn’t about running a huge event.

You can host:

☕ A coffee meetup

🖼 A local artist open house

🎤 A panel or Q&A

🧭 A “meet the members” session

📸 A photo wall of your space’s story

Big or small—every event matters.

This Is Bigger Than One Day

Yes—it’s just one day on the calendar.

But it’s part of a much bigger movement.

Across Europe, coworking spaces are showing up for their communities—together.

When 100 spaces participate in London, it shows what’s possible when local connection becomes a collective act.

This is how we rebuild trust.

This is how coworking becomes part of the everyday rhythm of city life.

And this is how London leads by example—not through noise but action.

Need Help? Join in this.

To help you plan your event, we’re running a free online workshop series.

These aren’t webinars.

They’re live, hands-on sessions where space owners, community managers, and operators coach each other, refine real event ideas, and share what works.

Come to one. Come to all.

Either way, you’ll leave with energy, ideas, and a solid plan.

🛠 RSVP for the event planning sessions → Here

📍 Register your space for European Coworking Day → Here

For Vendors, Partners & Local Government

You hear it all the time:

“Small and micro businesses are the backbone of the UK economy.”

But they’re consistently ignored—passed over in favour of tax cuts and incentives for multinational corporations.

Meanwhile, coworking spaces quietly support the people building things:

Freelancers.
Founders.
Community organisers.
Creatives.
People working jobs, running side projects—or doing both at once.

It’s not entrepreneur vs. employee anymore.

It’s a modern, flexible, complicated economy—coworking reflects that.

Coworking spaces are part of London’s infrastructure.

They support work, business, culture, and well-being daily.

And they are constantly left out of economic development plans.

We hear the talk about “supporting small business.”

This is your chance actually to do it.

💷 Research shows that when £1 is spent with a local business, it circulates around the local economy up to four times.
When that £1 is spent with a multinational, it disappears.

The London Coworking Assembly believes in the power of shared workspaces to strengthen our local economy by:

✅ Supporting Londoners in building sustainable, independent careers and businesses

✅ Giving those with jobs the chance to work closer to home

✅ Helping parents avoid soul-crushing commutes

✅ Making neighbourhood economies more resilient

Final Word

We’re not asking for a lot.

There are around 1,400 coworking spaces in London.

We’re only asking for 100 spaces to open their doors on one day—in whatever way works for them.

But that small act—done together—can reshape how the city sees coworking.

Not as a niche industry.

But as part of London’s social and economic fabric.

Because you already know:

For decades, wealth and decision-making have been hoarded at the top—by corporations, by landlords, by institutions that are too big to hear anyone below them.

Coworking spaces are one of the few places left where people can still take control, build something local, and live lives that are not dictated by billion-pound decisions in a boardroom.

When those coworking spaces connect—when they actually work together—they stop being individual outposts and start becoming a local force.

Not just economically—but culturally, socially, politically.
This isn’t about European Coworking Day.
It’s about what London looks like if we build from the street up—not the top down.
It’s about freelancers not having to feel alone.
It’s about someone with an idea finding the space to try it.
It’s about parents working closer to home instead of commuting three hours daily.
It’s about neighbourhoods where money stays local, jobs aren’t all remote for companies 5,000 miles away, and communities can see and support each other.

It’s about making something visible. Together.

Because if we don’t show up for each other, no one else will.

This movement is produced by Third Place Works and the London Coworking Assembly—built for everyone.

Let’s make coworking great again 😉

p.s.

🛠 RSVP for the event planning sessions → Here

📍 Register your space for European Coworking Day → Here