WHAT WORKHUBS OFFERS
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.
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
- facilities likely to be most popular
- 'virtual office' phone and message services
- 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
- low/zero carbon approaches
- choice of experienced hub architects
- choice of experience hub managers
- ways to link with colleges and other key partners
- ways to use land value to reduce set up costs
