by Bernie Mitchell | Mar 6, 2026 | Events & Meetups
 February 24th. Blue Garage, Lewisham. The room’s full. Coworking operators, local authority people, housing associations, and artists. 60 people in an industrial makerspace with concrete floors and fabrication equipment in the background. The kind of space...
by Bernie Mitchell | Dec 3, 2025 | Link in the Show Notes
LinkedIn Show Notes #39 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast. Three people. Two continents. One pattern: They stopped waiting for the state to fix what’s broken and started...
by Bernie Mitchell | Nov 27, 2025 | Coworking, Link in the Show Notes
LinkedIn Show Notes #38 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️ Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast. Employment support. Economic resilience. Anti-displacement work. This is what coworking looks like when it...
by Bernie Mitchell | Nov 13, 2025 | Coworking, Link in the Show Notes
LinkedIn Show Notes #36 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️ Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast At 30,000 feet, physics works. Checklists save lives. You follow the rules, you survive.At ground level, the...
by Bernie Mitchell | Nov 6, 2025 | Coworking, Link in the Show Notes
LinkedIn Show Notes #35 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️ Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast. Three community builders. Three continents. One pattern: They stopped selling memberships and started building...
by Bernie Mitchell | Oct 30, 2025 | Link in the Show Notes
LinkedIn Show Notes #34 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️ Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast. Three different community builders. Two continents. One pattern: They stopped optimising for scale and started...
by Bernie Mitchell | Oct 19, 2025 | Link in the Show Notes
LinkedIn Show Notes #37 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️ Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast. In 2019, a 17-year-old in a McKenzie hoodie at Mainyard Studios in Hackney shouted at me from the back...
by Bernie Mitchell | Oct 16, 2025 | Link in the Show Notes
LinkedIn Show Notes #33 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️ Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast. Refugees. Social capital. Citizens. Three answers to the same question—people stay when they’re citizens,...
by Bernie Mitchell | Oct 1, 2025 | Link in the Show Notes
LinkedIn Show Notes #31 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️ Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast. What three crisis stories from Armenia, Gaza, and London reveal about the invisible currency that keeps independent...
by Bernie Mitchell | Sep 25, 2025 | Coworking, Link in the Show Notes
LinkedIn Show Notes #30 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. While you were running your space, we’ve been talking to the future—three FLOC leaders, one message: it’s time to choose careers over gigs. I was once sitting at a table for lunch with a...
by Bernie Mitchell | Sep 18, 2025 | Link in the Show Notes
LinkedIn Show Notes #29 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. While you were running your space, we’ve been mining the podcast archive—three different conversations, one revelation about retention. When ÂŁ15 Became ÂŁ35 Jules Robertson remembers when you...
by Bernie Mitchell | Sep 4, 2025 | Link in the Show Notes
LinkedIn Show Notes #28 Hey folks, it’s Bernie here. I took the summer off from this Coworking Values Podcast companion to rethink how to do this. There is always more nourishment in a podcast episode than the twenty or so minutes you listen to; in all...
by Bernie Mitchell | Aug 8, 2025 | Link in the Show Notes
Link in the Show Notes #20 – (The ÂŁ2.5 Million Question) 🎙️Link in the Show Notes: Turning our Coworking Values Podcast conversations into practical wisdom for coworking operators. This week: What Space4 and Founders & Coders in Finsbury Park and a...
by Emily Breder | Jun 26, 2025 | Coworking, Virtual Office
Right, here’s the big one. The question that gives London coworking operators sleepless nights: Does offering those cheap virtual offices actually pinch your valuable physical memberships? Or, could it be a clever way to draw businesses into your world, a sort of...
by Emily Breder | Jun 12, 2025 | Coworking, Virtual Office
Right, so you’ve sidestepped the £30k illusion. Navigated (most of) the regulatory minefield. And faced the cold, hard truth about what this virtual office malarkey really costs. You get it now. Offering Virtual Office (VO) services in London isn’t the walk in the...
by Bernie Mitchell | Jun 12, 2025 | Link in the Show Notes
🎙️ Link in the Shownotes #18 – Ai Is Already Here, Shaping Our Work. Ever feel like you’re shouting into the void? We talk about community, about loneliness, about making spaces affordable. We dissect purpose-driven work versus just clocking in. All vital. All...
by Emily Breder | May 26, 2025 | Coworking, Virtual Office
That’s fifty quid a month virtual office client. Looks like easy money, doesn’t it? A nice little top-up to your coworking space’s income. Multiply that by, say, 50 clients, and you’re suddenly dreaming of a cool ÂŁ30,000 dropping into your bank account each...
by Bernie Mitchell | May 15, 2025 | Link in the Show Notes
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and European Coworking Day. So I’ve been writing nonstop about where mental health and coworking meet, with stories from Coworking Values Podcast guests and my direct experience of mental health and coworking. Below are...
by Emily Breder | May 13, 2025 | Coworking, Virtual Office
So, you reckon offering virtual offices is just a case of assigning an address and popping some mail in the post? Dream on. For London coworking operators, especially the independents, it’s more like trying to cross a minefield wearing a blindfold. Under that shiny...
by Emily Breder | Apr 29, 2025 | Coworking, Virtual Office
Virtual offices. They dangle the promise of easy income. Especially for London’s independent coworking spaces feeling the squeeze. You do the maths: Fifty clients, each chipping in a neat £50 a month. Bingo. That’s £30,000 a year. Seemingly for nothing more than...
by Bernie Mitchell | Apr 24, 2025 | Coworking, Link in the Show Notes, Podcasts
Yesterday I was on the edge of my seat to podcast with Paula A. Madrid.  We’d spoken on the phone before. Missed each other at the Workspace Design Show London in February. So when we finally hit record, I was all in. Paula is a Colombian-born New...
by Emily Breder | Apr 14, 2025 | Coworking, Future of Work, Virtual Office
The Hidden Cost of Virtual Office: What London Coworking Spaces Don’t See Coming The Fantasy vs. Reality Virtual offices sound like free money. A few clicks. A registered address. A steady drip of income while you sleep. Except that’s not how it plays out....
by Bernie Mitchell | Mar 23, 2025 | Coworking, Events & Meetups
📣 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...
by Bernie Mitchell | Jan 8, 2025 | Coworking
Now that we are 2025, the coworking movement stands at an exciting crossroads. Coworking spaces in London, the UK, and beyond have become more than shared offices—they are hubs of connection, creativity, and community. Drawing from conversations on the world-famous...
