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When we were thinking about where to bring GCUC UK Manchester this year, the question wasn’t just about square footage or AV specs. It was about the right room. Set inside two restored Victorian market halls in Manchester’s St. John’s neighbourhood, Department Campfield is a 135,000 sq ft tech and creative campus operated by Department, […]

CoworkingCafe’s latest UK & Ireland Quarterly Coworking Report is out, and the headline numbers tell a story anyone working in regional flex space already knew: Manchester is leading the pack outside the M25. The UK now has 4,270 coworking spaces. Greater London accounts for 1,209 of them, close to 30 percent of the total. That […]

James Panepinto is a coworking operator and FLOC UK lead. Sharp, straight-talking, and deeply invested in where this industry is going, he has spent years on the operational floor, and is one of the loudest voices pushing coworking to take its own talent seriously. This June, he’s bringing that energy to GCUC UK Manchester as […]

“Talk about the divorce and the marriage at the same time.” RUPERT DEAN, FOUNDER & CEO, X+WHY   Rupert Dean’s line was the most quoted of the morning, and probably the whole point of the event. On Thursday, GCUC UK partnered with Brave Ideas to host How to De-Risk Flex Space, a breakfast event at […]

The case for regional coworking in the UK does not need making anymore. Manchester alone has 1.4 million square feet of flexible workspace and is still growing, and operators who have been London-focused are starting to look north and west with genuine intent. What is less settled is what regional expansion actually requires. The assumption, […]

As the industry has matured, some of the language around coworking events has become more serious. That makes sense up to a point. The market is tougher than it was a few years ago, expectations are higher, and there is much less patience now for anything that feels inflated or slightly detached from reality. What […]

As GCUC UK has grown, the focus hasn’t been how big we can get, but on what kind of room we’re building. In most industries, growth is still measured in reach. Attendance numbers, mailing lists, social visibility. Those metrics are easy to point to and easy to compare. But they don’t necessarily tell you what […]

Use Discount Code: GCUC-BRAVE RSVP HERE   Flex has matured. It is no longer a niche experiment sitting in a corner of the market waiting to prove itself. But that does not mean the risk has disappeared. For landlords, asset managers and investors, the structural questions around flex partnerships remain genuinely difficult ones. What happens […]

To mark this year’s International Women’s Day – Sunday 8th March – we spoke to 5 women from across the coworking and flex sector who we believe are doing really interesting work. We were lucky enough to chat with: Luce Evers – Design Lead, Foundry Sarah Hayford – Founder & CEO, The Land Collective CIC […]