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By Grace Olorunshola “The rule of good conversation is two ears, one mouth.” That was the ground rule set at the start of a roundtable at GCUC UK 2026. The Open Room was hosted by executive coach Claire Carpenter of Claire Carpenter Coaching, who is also the founder of The Melting Pot, Scotland’s centre for […]

Ten years ago I joined a brand new coworking space in Brighton as part of the opening team. I didn’t really know what coworking was. I just knew the people there were different. They wanted to share. They wanted to help each other win. On 8 October, 250 of us filled the Pavilion at TOGETHER, […]

Cheré Falconer co-founded Quarterback in 2020 on a blunt premise: real estate is fixed, and it’s time it was broken. As Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, she has spent the years since building an approach to design and delivery that puts people, honesty and long-term thinking ahead of the quick sell. Ahead of her fireside […]

FreshGround has been supplying offices with coffee since 1982, and this October they’ll be pouring it at GCUC UK London, with two machines on site for the whole day. Ahead of the event, we asked Marketing Manager Anthony Hare what’s actually changed in office coffee, whether “good culture starts with great coffee” holds up, and […]

“Networking has traditionally been measured by how many introductions or conversations happened. I am much more interested in whether we helped people have better conversations with the right people and whether the value of the room can continue after everyone has physically left it.” CameThru is building a live network map for events, on screens […]

GCUC UK London returns on 8 & 9 October 2026 at TOGETHER, 88 Wood Street, in the heart of the City of London. For operators, investors, landlords and solution providers across the flexible workspace ecosystem, GCUC UK is the key operational gathering of the autumn. This guide covers the two-day schedule, the confirmed mainstage line-up, […]

The most valuable takeaways at any industry gathering aren’t always from the main stage. They happen in smaller rooms, where attendees bring their real operational challenges and tangible data, rather than just their polished marketing decks. At GCUC UK Manchester, we broke away from traditional presentations into three parallel workshops in Lower Campfield. Built specifically […]

There was no better way to close the day at GCUC UK Manchester than a conversation about the city we were sitting in. Shazia Mustafa of Inclusive Placemaking Co sat for a fireside with Michael Ingall, the developer behind Spinningfields, St John’s and the Campfield campus that hosted GCUC UK, for the closing fireside of […]

The UK coworking industry still talks about itself as if it begins at Old Street and ends in Shoreditch. The Q2 2026 data from CoworkingCafe suggests it should probably stop doing that. London dominates? That is not the story. Greater London accounts for 1,275 of the UK’s 4,415 spaces. Roughly a quarter of the total, […]