# London Coworking Assembly
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## Pages
- [Ten years of coworking journalism. One pint a month.](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/fund-the-work.md) - Citizen-funded journalism for the people building civic infrastructure, one coworking space at a time. The trade-off is straightforward. When you're funded by the people you're writing for, you don't have to find readers for your writing. You can find writing for your readers. For ten years, the Lo…
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## Posts
- [How to buy a community](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/how-to-buy-a-community.md) - How do you make clear the value of your coworking space?
- [From Consumers to Citizens: Lessons in Community Ownership](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/from-consumers-to-citizens-lessons-in-community-ownership.md) - This week two communities shared how they are figuring out how to take back control of their own regeneration before private developers price them out. A pivotal moment for community ownership? Join the movement from Brixton to Frome · Zoom · LumaAs wealth is sucked upwards faster than ever, away f…
- [Start With the Building, Miss the Person — It Happened Again This Week](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/start-with-the-building-miss-the-person-it-happened-again-this-week.md) - I spent this week watching the same argument break out in different places, with different people, in completely different conversations. None of them planned it. * Caleb Parker published a manifesto for high street coworking. * Suzanne Murdock sent her monthly newsletter from The Hub Newry. * Pari…
- [You're not in the property business. Five of us said it this week — nobody planned it.](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/youre-not-in-the-property-business-five-of-us-said-it-this-week-nobody-planned-it.md) - I spent this week reading what people in our community have been writing. Karen Tait had a terrible Tuesday at The Residence in Bishop's Stortford. Stacey Sheppard's space was on BBC Spotlight. Felicia Fai and Philip Tomlinson's report on the value of local growth hubs. James Panepinto wrote about…
- [Loneliness Awareness Week. Four perspectives the main coworking conversation skips past.](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/loneliness-awareness-week-four-perspectives-the-main-coworking-conversation-skips-past.md) - Thor. Sangeeta. Amy. Lisa. Four people I know. All of them walked into rooms that weren't built for them. ✅ Become a Founding Coworking Community Builder Back the work Before I started freelancing, I'd always worked in hospitality. Kitchens, bars, clubs. From five-star hotels in Mayfair to Pizza Hu…
- [Coworking said out loud at Prime Minister's Questions](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/coworking-said-out-loud-at-prime-ministers-questions.md) - In this week's news: * Coworking gets raised at PMQs * Have your MP visit your space * Loneliness Awareness Week * Back the work as a Coworking Community Builder Coworking gets raised at PMQs This week at Prime Minister's Questions, Lauren Edwards MP made the case for coworking. She told the Chambe…
- [Your coworking space is mental health infrastructure](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/your-coworking-space-is-mental-health-infrastructure.md) - In this week's news: * What came up at the Coworking Alliance Summit * Coworking as mental health infrastructure * Loneliness, housing and place * Portugal, Ireland, London - same fight * Fixing the front door (member joining journey) * What's on over in London * 🌈 Pride * Back the work as a Cowor…
- [Two things from the London Coworking Assembly](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/two-things-from-the-london-coworking-assembly.md) - Happy Friday London Coworking Community Builders! The real magic in this industry happens when we join the dots between operators, researchers, and local authorities. We've been rebuilding the London Coworking Assembly from the ground up to do exactly that - the Coworking Values Podcast, the Unreas…
- [Patagonia vests, kombucha, and a punch in the throat.](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/patagonia-vests-kombucha-and-a-punch-in-the-throat.md) - Happy Friday London Coworking Community Builders! What happened at Space4 On Tuesday at Space4, I watched people's shoulders drop. Nobody had to explain what their job title meant. Nobody had to justify why they care so much about a building full of people who aren't even their employees. You sat d…
- [They Come for the Promise. They Stay for the Hospitality. with Dr. JJ Peterson](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/they-come-for-the-promise-they-stay-for-the-hospitality-with-dr-jj-peterson.md) - "They come for the promise. They stay for the hospitality." — Dr. JJ Peterson Episode Summary JJ Peterson has spent eleven years inside the StoryBrand universe. He co-authored Marketing Made Simple with Donald Miller. He helped Will Guidara write the certification for Unreasonable Hospitality. He h…
- [You know you do this work. You just can't prove it in a council meeting.](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/you-know-you-do-this-work-you-just-cant-prove-it-in-a-council-meeting.md) - I recorded a podcast today with Felicia Fai. A lot of you will have met her at Blue Garage during the last Unreasonable Connection. Felicia is an academic at the University of Bath, and the research she recently co-authored adds the economic scaffolding to what we do. Her team studied 161 spaces ac…
- [Your Coworking Space Is a Conversation, Not an Office](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/your-coworking-space-is-a-conversation-not-an-office.md) - LinkedIn Show Notes #51 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️ Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast Hannah Mojica's train was cancelled on the way to a fireside chat she was supposed to be leading — on member retention. Standing on the platform, she…
- [Why AI Can't Feel the Room: Practical Operations with Carlos Almansa](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-ai-cant-feel-the-room-practical-operations-with-carlos-almansa.md) - "The AI cannot feel the space. It can't feel the dynamics or the vibe. But it can free up time for you to talk to your members, to have a coffee with them, to understand and to read people." — Carlos Almansa Ballesteros Episode Summary Most conversations about AI in coworking are either evangelical…
- [Why The People Who Build Communities Never Show Up For Themselves](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-the-people-who-build-communities-never-show-up-for-themselves.md) - May 19th Unreasonable Connection Live! You spend your whole week lowering the barrier for everyone else. Nobody does it for you. When I ran @Workhubs by Euston Station with Phil, there were days I was so exhausted it felt like the liquid had drained out of my eyes. When you run an independent space…
- [The Golden Thread: Why Unreasonable Hospitality Needs a Story First with Sonya & Julie](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-golden-thread-why-unreasonable-hospitality-needs-a-story-first-with-sonya-julie.md) - Why your coworking space needs a Story before it can practise hospitality "Marketing makes these promises and service delivers that. So for us, StoryBrand and unreasonable hospitality, really work together hand in glove. And StoryBrand is really about thinking about how you communicate that you car…
- [Start Cooking. The Recipe Will Follow.](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/start-cooking-the-recipe-will-follow.md) - We're moving everything up a gear. At the last Unreasonable Connection Live in Lewisham, you told us the groups were too random and the curation could be tighter. You were right. 75% of you left with more momentum than you arrived with. The room worked. The curation didn't. The people in the room,…
- [The neighbourhood is a site of freedom (why community won't save us)](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-neighbourhood-is-a-site-of-freedomwhen-i-was-a-kid-i-loved-christmas-time-we-would-visit-my-grandparents-in-bristol-and-end-up-wandering-around-the-massive-department-stores-surroun.md) - When I was a kid, I loved Christmas time. We would visit my grandparents in Bristol and end up wandering around the massive department stores, surrounded by the hum of cheesy festive music. Walk into the old abandoned Debenhams in Bristol today and listen to the noise. It is the harsh, percussive c…
- [You're Never Broke If You Got Ideas: How Koder Brings Music to the Neighbourhood](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/youre-never-broke-if-you-got-ideas-how-koder-brings-music-to-the-neighbourhood.md) - "Ideas are currency, you know. And you're never broke if you got ideas... Everything we are looking at around us came from an idea. So for me, they are, it is a currency within itself." — Koder Koder runs Undeniable Studios, a music production conglomerate built from youth clubs, pirate radio, and…
- [The Last Room Standing: Why Rural Coworking is the Real Frontline of European Revitalisation](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-last-room-standing-why-rural-coworking-is-the-real-frontline-of-european-revitalisation.md) - LinkedIn Show Notes #48 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. European Coworking Day is weeks away. ACTionism screenings are filling up across London, Europe, and as far as El Nido in Palawan. Here in Vigo, we're running our first-ever European Coworking Day event: LiveGalicia, a pop-up cowork…
- [How to Host an ACTionism Screening for European Coworking Day (May 6th)](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/how-to-host-an-actionism-screening-for-european-coworking-day-may-6th.md) - You know you should do more community stuff. Everyone knows. The problem is the gap between knowing and doing. Between the idea of getting members together and actually creating a moment when something happens. The people who came to Blue Garage in February for Unreasonable Connection told us two t…
- [Service is black and white. Hospitality is colour.](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/service-is-black-and-white-hospitality-is-colour.md) - You know that moment when the room shifts? The noise lifts. The energy changes. Everyone is moving, talking, laughing, working—all at once. It's not luck. It's architecture. It's what happens when people feel welcome. When they're given agency. When the space is designed not just to serve them but…
- [You Don't Need Global. You Need Neighbourhood.](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/you-dont-need-global-you-need-neighbourhood.md) - Actions you can take for European Coworking Day, or any day! Five ways to build civic infrastructure in your neighbourhood—from a conversation to a continent-wide movement. Your neighbours don't know you exist. They walk past your building every day. They buy coffee three doors down. They complain…
- [When a Shopping Centre Becomes a Hope Hub with Parisa Wright](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/when-a-shopping-centre-becomes-a.md) - Why your space should partner with community sustainability projects
- [Being Together Is the Point](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/being-together-is-the-point.md) - Stop building programmes. Start building the community before you need it. You're building another programme. Workshop series. Speaker event. Networking night. Something structured to bring people together. And you're exhausted before it even starts. You know how this goes: * Weeks of planning * Ma…
- [The Hero's Journey Is Broken: How to Tell Stories That Drive Collective Action with Matt Golding](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-heros-journey-is-broken-how-to.md) - On why traditional storytelling fails community change, the four universal needs that unify action, and the framework for telling stories that make people believe change is possible
- [The Tactical Playbook from Coworking Operators Weekend with Lauren Walker](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-tactical-playbook-from-coworking.md) - On the tactical frameworks from Coworking Operators Weekend, the circus metaphor that explains marketing, and why operators need each other.
- [You're Not Running a 'Real' Coworking Space—The Lie Independent Operators Tell Themselves](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/youre-not-running-a-real-coworking-space-the-lie-independent-operators-tell-themselves.md) - 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 where real work happens, not the kind you…
- [Why Glasgow's First Coworking Space Stayed All-Subscription with Teresa Jackson](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-glasgows-first-coworking-space.md) - On accidental landlords, absorbing risk so members don't have to, and the monthly model that never changed
- [How to Turn Developers into Neighborhood Partners with Hannah Philp](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/how-to-turn-developers-into-neighborhood.md) - How to Turn Developers into Neighbourhood Partners with Hannah Philp
- [Ireland's Coworking Revolution and Who Actually Benefits with Graham Clarke](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/irelands-coworking-revolution-and.md) - Why one booking system became civic infrastructure
- [What Hospitality Actually Costs with Ian Minor](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/what-hospitality-actually-costs-with.md) - SOPs, staffing ratios, and the touch points small operators can afford
- [Regeneration Is a Verb. Not a Building.](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/regeneration-is-a-verb-not-a-building.md) - LinkedIn Show Notes #44 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen.
- [When a Community Finds Its Coworking Space with Lee Dalgleish](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/when-a-community-finds-its-coworking.md) - Youth zones, food halls, and the patron model that rebuilt Wigan
- [Audience, Community, or Village? The Framework for Real Connection with Rose Radtke](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/audience-community-or-village-the.md) - Why one word can't do everything—and what 2026 operators need to know about multi-use spaces
- [How Childcare Plus Coworking Becomes Social Infrastructure with Georgia Norton](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/how-childcare-plus-coworking-becomes.md) - Research findings, fixable barriers, and why this matters for every space operator
- [How the 10-Minute City Creates Freedom with Szilvia Filep](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/how-the-10-minute-city-creates-freedom.md) - When coworking operators design their lives around what matters, not what’s expected
- [Why Small Businesses Are the Real Heroes with Tom Ball](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-small-businesses-are-the-real.md) - How to build a viable coworking space without selling your soul to corporates
- [Why Your Superpower Is Being Hyper-Local with Rosee Shrestha](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-your-superpower-is-being-hyper.md) - On being seen, organic community, and what inclusion actually means
- [The Cure for Coworking Space Imposter Syndrome with Jerome Chang & Jackie Latragna](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-cure-for-coworking-space-imposter.md) - 51% of the industry gets ignored at the big conferences. Jerome and Jackie built something for the people actually in the trenches.
- [The Ground Is Moving Under Coworking with Hector Kolonas](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-ground-is-moving-under-coworking.md) - Three shifts changing how spaces get found, paid, and chosen
- [How Contingent Works Educated Their Local Council on Coworking – From Invisible to Indispensable with Ewan Buck](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/how-contingent-works-educated-their.md) - Four years of patient work. One member who wrote to the MP without being asked. Once the penny drops, they're super helpful.
- [How Coffee Shops Accidentally Created Coworking with David Walker](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/how-coffee-shops-accidentally-created.md) - The café-to-coworking blueprint your local barista is sitting on
- ["This Is a Very Lean Business, Incredibly Lean" with Karen Tait](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/this-is-a-very-lean-business-incredibly.md) - The hidden costs of running an independent coworking space — and what the business rates crisis could mean for yours
- [The £1 That Goes Around Four Times: Why Local Coworking Is Civic Infrastructure](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-1-that-goes-around-four-times.md) - LinkedIn Show Notes from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen.
- [The Business Rates Crisis: What Every Workspace Operator Needs to Do Now with Jane Sartin](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-business-rates-crisis-what-every.md) - Why £400,000 backdated bills are already landing on operators' desks — and how to fight back
- [Why the UK Government Is About to Crush Your Coworking Space — And What to Do About It with Roland Stanley](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-the-uk-government-is-about-to.md) - The chef-turned-coworking-founder fighting an "extinction-level event" — and what every independent operator needs to do this week.
- [Childcare and Coworking: Why the Neighbourhood Model Outlasts the Glossy One with Georgia Norton](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/childcare-and-coworking-why-the-neighbourhood.md) - The mums who stopped waiting for permission to integrate work and care
- [Democracy Won't Be Born in Westminster. It's Being Built in Back Streets and Coworking Spaces.](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/democracy-wont-be-born-in-westminster-its-being-built-in-back-streets-and-coworking-spaces.md) - 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 building the infrastructure themselves…
- [Why Connectors Create the Future (And Consumers Don't) with Peter Block](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-connectors-create-the-future.md) - Why the shape of your room determines who has power
- [Is Your Coworking Space Solving Real Problems or Selling Lifestyle Products?](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/is-your-coworking-space-solving-real.md) - Employment support. Economic resilience. Anti-displacement work. This is what coworking looks like when it chooses infrastructure over amenities.
- [Is Your Coworking Space Solving Real Problems or Selling Lifestyle Products?](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/is-your-coworking-space-solving-real-problems.md) - Are you offering amenities or answers? Explore why successful coworking spaces focus on solving business challenges over selling fleeting lifestyle trends.
- [Why "Doing the Work" Beats Predicting the Future with Dean Connell](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-doing-the-work-beats-predicting.md) - The coworking evolution nobody's talking about—from shared desks to shared purpose
- [From Haircuts to Health Checks — How to Make Your Space Matter to the Neighbourhood with Williamz Omope](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/from-haircuts-to-health-checks-how.md) - Why NHS workers who normally see one person all day were 'literally overwhelmed'
- [A 17-Year-Old in a McKenzie Hoodie Just Destroyed the Entire Coworking Industry With One Question.](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/a-17-year-old-in-a-mckenzie-hoodie.md) - LinkedIn Show Notes #37 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen.
- [When Productivity Advice Meets Real Constraints with Suzanne Murdock](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/when-productivity-advice-meets-real.md) - What happens when productivity advice meets ADHD, childcare, and community management?
- [Trans Rights Are Human Rights: Creating Safe Coworking Spaces with Tash Koster-Thomas](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/trans-rights-are-human-rights-creating.md) - When the state strips away dignity, coworking spaces become sanctuaries
- [Why Your Real Competition Isn't Another Coworking Space with Lucy McInally](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-your-real-competition-isnt-another.md) - What happens when the biggest barrier to community isn't pricing or amenities—it's the effort of leaving the house?
- [At 30,000 Feet the Rules Work. At Ground Level They Don't.](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/at-30000-feet-the-rules-work-at-ground-level-they-dont.md) - 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 checklists are rigged depending on who y…
- [Community as Immunity: Beyond Economic Extraction with Xavier Damman](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/community-as-immunity-beyond-economic.md) - How a tech entrepreneur traded the American dream for the radical experiment of rebuilding community economics in the heart of Europe.
- [They Built Infrastructure for the Energy Money Can't Capture](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/they-built-infrastructure-for-the-energy-money-cant-capture.md) - 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 movements that run on relationships,…
- [The Storyteller in the War Zone on Coworking, Community, and Survival with Helga Moreno ](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-storyteller-in-the-war-zone-on.md) - What happens when the person selling efficiency software lives where electricity is a luxury and bomb shelters are standard amenities?
- [Do Restaurant Skills Work in Coworking? with Stephen Phillips](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/do-restaurant-skills-work-in-coworking.md) - What happens when London restaurant experience meets Philippine island infrastructure, power cuts, and the real cost of building community.
- [Why Connection Over Convenience Wins: Faith-Forward Coworking with Shamena Nurse-Kingsley](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-connection-over-convenience-wins.md) - Why being specific beats being neutral in a city of 160,000 people
- [They Host Church, Stop Brain Drain, and Won't Put Their Film on Netflix—And They're Winning](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/they-host-church-stop-brain-drain-and-wont-put-their-film-on-netflix-and-theyre-winning.md) - 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 building for depth. And the people wh…
- [How ACTionism Screenings Help Members Go From Solo Mission to "I've Got a Crew" with Ellie Meredith](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/how-actionism-screenings-help-members.md) - The 25-minute documentary, circle method, and facilitation tools that turn your coworking
- [Why Coworking Spaces Are the Antidote to Brain Drain with Dimitris Manoukas](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-coworking-spaces-are-the-antidote.md) - Breaking the cycle: How peripheral Europe is using collaborative spaces to stop youth exodus and rebuild local economies
- [A 17-Year-Old in a McKenzie Hoodie Just Destroyed the Entire Coworking Industry With One Question.](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/a-17-year-old-in-a-mckenzie-hoodie-just-destroyed-the-entire-coworking-industry-with-one-question.md) - 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 of a workshop: "What the fuck is coworking? W…
- [It's Not the Brand Partnerships. So What Actually Keeps Your Members Coming Back?](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/its-not-the-brand-partnerships-so-what-actually-keeps-your-members-coming-back.md) - 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, not consumers. At yesterday's Unreasonable…
- [How to Talk to Councils So They Actually Fund Your Projects with Jeannine van der Linden](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/how-to-talk-to-councils-so-they-actually.md) - You walk in with a good presentation about profit and sustainability. They nod politely, say someone will email you, and then... nothing. Here's the language gap that's been blocking you.
- [Why AI Makes Local Manufacturing Essential with Michael Korn](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-ai-makes-local-manufacturing.md) - What happens when university graduates lose access to lathes, mills, and 3D printers—and why one inventor in Lewisham is betting the future looks more like the past than the present?
- [The Antidote to Invisible Work: Social Capital & Ecosystem Winning with Tilley Harris](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-antidote-to-invisible-work-social.md) - What happens when the currencies that actually matter in coworking spaces—trust, connection, creative exchange—remain completely invisible to the people controlling resources?
- [Social Capital Isn't a Byproduct. It's THE Product.](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/social-capital-isnt-a-byproduct-its-the-product.md) - 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 coworking spaces alive when ever…
- [Building Community Power in Collapsing Systems with Sara Anjargolian](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/building-community-power-in-collapsing.md) - Beyond brands and B Corps—what running a coworking space through war, revolution, and authoritarian collapse teaches about real power
- [Why Every coworking Space Is Already Political with Jon Alexander](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-every-coworking-space-is-already.md) - What happens when coworking spaces stop renting desks and start building democracy?
- [The Future of Coworking is a Career, Not a Gig](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-future-of-coworking-is-a-career-not-a-gig.md) - 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 group of Coworking Space leaders, and a woman…
- [Why Early-Career Coworking Professionals Need Their Own Movement with Caroline Van den Eynde](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-early-career-coworking-professionals.md) - Caroline Van den Eynde on building careers, finding peers, and getting coworking recognised on LinkedIn
- [No Eligibility Criteria: The Only Rule You Need to Build Real Community with Williamz Omope](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/no-eligibility-criteria-the-only.md) - What happens when you ignore the rulebook and just decide to help everyone who shows up?
- [Three Women Cracked the Retention Code (While Everyone Else Chases New Members)](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/three-women-cracked-the-retention-code-while-everyone-else-chases-new-members.md) - 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 £15 Became £35 Jules Robertson remembers when you could get a day pass in London for £15. N…
- [The 95% Return Rate: Why Being Yourself Is Your Best Business Strategy with Ali Kakande](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-95-return-rate-why-being-yourself.md) - How a woman who connects with strangers on buses built sustainable community infrastructure through genuine relationship
- [Why Every Coworking Story Matters with Fanny Marcoux](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-every-coworking-story-matters.md) - What happens when you collect 36 stories from coworking operators across three continents — and discover the real heart of the movement?
- [Art as Weapons of Mass Creation with Samia Tossio](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/art-as-weapons-of-mass-creation-with.md) - What happens when a coworking space becomes the only place in London brave enough to hold space for the hardest conversations?
- [How Three Community Builders Are Keeping People Home](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/how-three-community-builders-are-keeping-people-home.md) - 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 our show notes, you'll find links to projects,…
- [Fighting Economic Brain Drain: Community Infrastructure with Mariangie Rosas](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/fighting-economic-brain-drain-community.md) - How one coworking space in Puerto Rico became essential infrastructure—and why local governments should pay attention
- [The UK Business Support Failure Coworking Spaces Are Already Solving with Stacey Sheppard](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-uk-business-support-failure-coworking.md) - What happens when AI destroys your 20-year career and local councils blow money on programmes that already exist down the road?
- [The Messy Spaces Where Magic Happens with David Walker](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-messy-spaces-where-magic-happens.md) - What happens when coworking's original ethos meets glass walls and sit-stand desks? A conversation about why the best collaboration happens in hurricane-hit spaces.
- [Your Community Manager Can't Do 8 Jobs Forever with DeShawn Brown](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/your-community-manager-cant-do-8.md) - When your community manager is tour guide, cleaner, sales, and dishwasher all at once — what happens when they finally burn out?
- [The Real Cost of Quality: What London's Workspace Flight Tells Us with Jules Robertson](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-real-cost-of-quality-what-londons.md) - From a Squarespace hack in 2020 to spotting market shifts before anyone else — how Tally Workspace reads the room when everyone else is reading the hype.
- [20 Years of Building Communities of Care with Ashley Proctor](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/20-years-of-building-communities.md) - When art students lost their studio space, they invented an industry — now they're coming for the land itself
- [Building Coworking for the People Actually Living in Hackney with Kofi Oppong](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/building-coworking-for-the-people.md) - When 15-year-old twins refuse to leave the AI lab and Caribbean grandmothers learn to code their way past red tape
- [When Certainty Dies, Everything Changes Finding the Others Through Citizen Action with Gavin Fernie-Jones](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/when-certainty-dies-everything-changes.md) - From selling ski gear to millionaires to building a movement that refuses membership fees
- [What happens when you stop counting community and start building it?](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/what-happens-when-you-stop-counting-community-and-start-building-it.md) - Link in the Show Notes #20 - (The £2.5 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 neurodiversity expert from Berlin taught us about…
- [How Space4 Coworking in Finsbury Park Creates £2.5 Million In Social Value with Natasha Natarajan](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/how-space4-coworking-in-finsbury.md) - Why a worker-owned cooperative with 70 members matters more than another thousand-desk workspace
- [The Antidote to Competing on Price: Unreasonable Hospitality with Julie & Sonya](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-antidote-to-competing-on-price.md) - Why the left-handed cutlery switch beats Beyoncé every time
- [Beyond Rainbow Stickers: Building Genuinely Inclusive Coworking Spaces with Aidan Sunassee](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/beyond-rainbow-stickers-building.md) - Why the most "welcoming" spaces often exclude the people who need them most
- [The Antidote to Trying Too Hard: Building Real Community from Scratch With Tony Bacigalupo](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-antidote-to-trying-too-hard-building.md) - Why the founder of Manhattan's first coworking space became a bike ride leader in Connecticut—and what that teaches us about belonging
- [How Coworking Became a Launchpad for Tech Careers from Finsbury Park to Gaza with Dan Sofer](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/how-coworking-became-a-launchpad.md) - How a North London coworking space became home to a peer-led coding school changing how tech careers begin.
- [Building the Next Generation of Coworking Careers with Sam Shea](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/building-the-next-generation-of-coworking.md) - Why the world's largest professional network still doesn't recognise coworking as an industry
- [Forget CVs—Ask About Spare Time: A New Way to Welcome Refugees with Mikael Johansson](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/forget-cvsask-about-spare-time-a.md) - Why the right question can unlock a life—and how Malmö built a refugee model around that truth.
- [When Yoga Becomes Work: The Dark Side of Coworking Wellness with Dr. Adèle Gruen](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/when-yoga-becomes-work-the-dark-side.md) - Why the battle for café tables reveals everything about the future of work, community, and coworking citizenship
- [Why Your Coworking Space Matters More Than You Think with Helena Norberg-Hodge](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-your-coworking-space-matters.md) - What happens when a 50-year localisation pioneer sits down with coworking operators and says: "We're all victims of a blind system—but we can step out together"?
- [Fighting to Belong: Building Places Where Everyone Can with Vibushan Thirukumar](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/fighting-to-belong-building-places.md) - What if the place you built was the one you needed growing up?
- [Coworking Without the Gimmicks: Why People Really Stay with Tom Ball](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/coworking-without-the-gimmicks-why.md) - What if your workspace felt more like your favourite local pub than a startup showroom?
- [Virtual Office VS. Coworking Membership: Friend or Foe? (How to Make Them Play nice)](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/virtual-office-vs-coworking-membership-friend-or-foe.md) - 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 gateway drug to a full-blown desk?…
- [Choosing the Right Software for Your Coworking Space - Not Someone Else’s Setup with Fiona Ross](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/choosing-the-right-software-for-your.md) - Spreadsheets got you this far. Fiona Ross shows you what to do when they’re no longer enough.
- [Radical Hospitality & Real Community: Inside Prism Spaces with Olivia Jones & Tyshon Boone](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/radical-hospitality-and-real-community.md) - How do you build radical hospitality in a city that charges for coffee and silence? Olivia and Tyshon found the answer—in lavender, live music, and saying yes more often than no.
- [The Freelance Pricing Crisis: How Undervaluing Your Work Costs More Than You Think with Elina Jutelyte](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-freelance-pricing-crisis-how.md) - "Is your income model built for freedom—or burnout?"
- [Beyond the Postbox: Building a Virtual Office Service That's Actually Valuable (and Compliant)](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/virtual-office-service-valuable-compliant.md) - 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 park, easy-money gig it’s often cr…
- [The Pay Gap: AI Isn't Just Tech. It's Our Best Damn Chance.](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-pay-gap-ai-isnt-just-tech-its-our-best-damn-chance.md) - 🎙️ 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 real. But there’s this one thing, thi…
- [Why Paid Ads Can’t Save a Coworking Space with No Email List](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-paid-ads-cant-save-a-coworking.md) - You don’t need a marketing budget—you need a repeatable rhythm. Here’s what really works (and what quietly kills momentum) for owner-managed spaces trying to grow.
- [REWIND: How to Build a Coworking Community That Lasts: From Transforma to Kalima with Vanessa Sans](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/rewind-how-to-build-a-coworking-community.md) - What does it take to build a coworking space that actually serves its community—instead of just selling a desk?
- [Real Community, Not Just Coworking Talk: The Magic of Belonging with Lucy McInally](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/real-community-not-just-coworking.md) - Some Coworking spaces say they build community. Lucy actually lived it.
- [The Future Is Already Here: Flexible Work, Third Places & Collective Change with Denise Brouder](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-future-is-already-here-flexible.md) - What if flexibility isn’t just a perk—but a pathway to equality, wellbeing, and real economic participation?
- [Design Isn’t Enough: Building Truly Inclusive Coworking with Alex Young](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/design-isnt-enough-building-truly.md) - “Assumptions are often wrong. If you don’t ask people what they need, you’re not helping—you’re guessing.”
- [Permission to Keep Going: Managing Existential Overhead with Emily and Bernie](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/permission-to-keep-going-managing.md) - When the world’s on fire—and your brain is full—how do you keep building something that matters?
- [Is Your London Coworking Space Bleeding Cash on Virtual Offices?](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/london-coworking-space-bleeding-cash-on-virtual-offices.md) - 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 £30,000 dropping into your bank account each year. And for what? Just handling a bit o…
- [What Emotional Safety Really Looks Like in a Coworking Space](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/what-emotional-safety-really-looks-like-in-a-coworking-space.md) - 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 four reads from this week: * Coworkin…
- [How to Be Seen: Loneliness, Culture & Safe Spaces with Sangeeta Pillai](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/how-to-be-seen-loneliness-culture.md) - What does it really mean to feel welcome? And why do so many of us feel invisible—even in a crowd?
- [Virtual Offices: The Regulatory Nightmare London Operators Blissfully Ignore](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/virtual-offices-the-regulatory-nightmare.md) - 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 surface of easy cash lies a tangl…
- [Confidence Isn’t Loud: Communication, Comedy & Coworking with Jon Torrens](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/confidence-isnt-loud-communication.md) - What if the real power move is admitting you don’t have it all together?
- [Building a Society, Not Just a Workspace: Community Innovation with Kyle Steele](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/building-a-society-not-just-a-workspace.md) - What if your coworking space was the heartbeat of your community?
- [Freelancers Deserve Better: Fighting Policy Apathy with Elina Jutelyte](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/freelancers-deserve-better-fighting.md) - Why do governments treat freelancers like cash machines instead of job creators?
- [Stay Calm Under Fire: Mastering High-Stakes Client Conversations with Chris Marr](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/stay-calm-under-fire-mastering-high.md) - What if one client call could leave you staring at the ceiling at 3 AM—or become the pivotal moment you finally stepped into your professional power?
- [Virtual Office Income: The £30k Illusion That Costs More Than Cash](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/illusion-of-virtual-office.md) - 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 letting folks use your address and h…
- [From Disaster Zones to Healing Workspaces: What Safe Design Really Feels Like with Paula Madrid](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/from-disaster-zones-to-healing-workspaces.md) - From trauma recovery to workspace design—how one psychologist is reimagining what “feeling safe at work” actually means.
- [Human-Centered Coworking Design: What Safe Design Really Feels Like](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/human-centered-coworking-design.md) - 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 Yorker who built an extraordinary career—first as a…
- [How to Finally Get Sh*t Done (Even When Your Brain Won't Cooperate) with Emily & Bernie](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/how-to-finally-get-sht-done-even.md) - Emily and Bernie break down time, effort, and the secret systems that make work actually possible again.
- [Coworking Spaces: The Social Glue of Modern Neighbourhoods with Teresa Bockmuehl](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/coworking-spaces-the-social-glue.md) - Coworking wasn’t meant to replace community centres—but that's exactly what's happening. Bernie and Teresa talk local life, connection, and rebuilding trust.
- [Why People Still Show Up: Building Events That Matter With Mark Masters](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/why-people-still-show-up-building.md) - Forget what you know about events. Mark Masters explains how to create gatherings people don’t just attend—but build their life around.
- [The Hidden Cost of Virtual Offices](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/hidden-cost-of-virtual-offices.md) - 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. What most coworking spaces don't see—until…
- [The Real Reason People Don’t Show Up How to Run Events in Your Coworking Space That Work](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-real-reason-people-dont-show.md) - Tired of throwing events no one comes to? Emily and Bernie share a simple, ad-free system for getting the right people in the room—and keeping your community connected.
- [A Safe Place to Land: Coworking Through Life’s Uncertainty with Shamena Nurse-Kingsley](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/a-safe-place-to-land-coworking-through.md) - When life gets messy, coworking can become the quiet space where community, hope, and kindness help us find our way.
- [Revenue vs Burnout: Smart Growth for Coworking Spaces with Hector Kolonas](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/revenue-vs-burnout-smart-growth-for.md) - How to stop burning time and money on “easy” revenue streams in your coworking space.
- [Mind the Wealth Gap: Why Entrepreneurship Isn’t Optional with Kofi Oppong](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/mind-the-wealth-gap-why-entrepreneurship.md) - The Big Lie: Anyone Can Be an Entrepreneur - Tech, Timing, and the Next Wave of Inequality
- [Email Over Algorithms: Visibility, Safety & Voice with Sebastian Dziuk](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/email-over-algorithms-visibility.md) - Email is safety, clarity, and connection—especially when the internet turns hostile.
- [How European Coworking Day Builds Real-World Community with Claudius Krucker](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/how-european-coworking-day-builds.md) - The Power of Showing Up—Even with Just a Cup of Tea
- [🧭 100 Spaces, One Day: A Call to Action for London’s Coworking Community](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/manifesto-2025.md) - 📣 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 communiti…
- [How to Make Your Coworking Space Feel Like a Mezcal Bar with Stephen Phillips](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/how-to-make-your-coworking-space.md) - How to Make Your Coworking Space Feel Like a Mezcal Bar with Stephen Phillips0:00/2001× Episode Summary What makes someone ditch their successful hospitality career in London for island life and coworking in the Philippines? Stephen Phillips built a thriving career running casual dining brands acro…
- [Making Space for Neurodivergence: Accessibility Beyond the Checklist with Sam Sundius](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/making-space-for-neurodivergence.md) - Why true accessibility isn’t a checklist, how coworking spaces can actually support neurodivergent people, and why designing for difference makes work better for everyone.
- [The Solution for Women Entrepreneurs Local Governments Ignore with Stacey Sheppard](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-solution-for-women-entrepreneurs.md) - Coworking spaces are the solution—so why are they still overlooked?
- [How to Activate Your Senses at the Workspace Design Show: A Coworking Guide with Humaira Pilkington](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/how-to-activate-your-senses-at-the.md) - Everything Coworking Operators Need to Know About the Workspace Design Show London 2025
- [People Trust People - How Coworking Spaces Can Become Local Trust Hubs with Phil Szomszor](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/people-trust-people-how-coworking.md) - Trust is at an all-time low, but people still believe in those they see every day. Here’s how coworking spaces can build real connections and attract more members.
- [The 5 Biggest Mistakes Coworking Community Builders Make (And How to Fix Them) with Emily & Bernie](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/the-5-biggest-mistakes-coworking.md) - How coworking spaces lose community, focus on the wrong things, and struggle to grow—and what you can do differently.
- [Coworking Spaces Fail Neurodivergent Members—Here’s What You Can Do About It with Anna B Sexton](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/coworking-spaces-fail-neurodivergent.md) - Simple changes coworking spaces can make to better support neurodivergent professionals, creatives, and freelancers.
- [Digital Kindness & Social Media’s Future with Lauren Hug](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/digital-kindness-and-social-medias.md) - Social media changed everything—but has it lost its way? Lauren and Bernie break down how we can reclaim it for community, connection, and real conversations.
- [Less Tech, More Connection: Why Coworking Needs People, Not Just Screens With Manuel Conti](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/less-tech-more-connection-why-coworking.md) - Are we automating coworking to death? Manuel and Bernie unpack tech overload—and what actually makes a great space.
- [No One Builds Alone: Why the Coworking Alliance Summit Matters With Sam Poler](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/no-one-builds-alone-why-the-coworking.md) - Coworking isn’t just about spaces—it’s about people. The Summit is where alliances, communities, and independent operators come together to share, learn, and actually get things done.
- [Women Are Still Justifying Their Right to Exist at Work](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/women-are-still-justifying-their.md) - Why women need spaces of their own, the reality of the motherhood tax, and how Breaker Collective is building community first.
- [Coworking & Childcare: Making Workspaces Work for Parents with Ann-Marie Kinlock](https://londoncoworkingassembly.com/coworking-and-childcare-making-workspaces.md) - How Kindhaus is rethinking coworking to support parents, balance work and childcare, and create a more inclusive future.

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