We’re hosting a Jelly!

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

chiltern-jelly-logo On Wednesday 4th August Funkbunk is opening it’s doors. After being approached by organisers Elizabeth Druce and Hayley Chalmers and with the prospect of home cooked cakes how could we have possibly refused hosting the first Chiltern Jelly. Now, for those familiar with the concept of a Jelly you can skip the next bit.

If by now you are wondering, what is a Jelly? A Jelly, in this case is not something you have in a trifle, but a casual event where freelancers, home-workers and people running small business can break away from their usual work space, meet new people and perhaps regain some sanity working in a social environment. Plenty of work, chat and collaboration without the ‘N’ word (networking). Oh, and did we mention they are FREE?

For the day up to 8 individuals can come down to Funkbunk and get involved. The Jelly begins at 9.30 and finishing up at 5.00. Chiltern Jelly has all the information you need on the Chiltern Jelly Blog and their Eventbrite page. Make sure you follow @chilternjelly and @shortcouture on twitter to keep up-to-date.

We’re looking forward to it we hope you are too.

Is working from home giving you h.o.m.e.*?

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

* Home Office Mental Exhaustion – recognise the symptoms and act now. Download this essential information before it’s too late!

“The experience of a loss of professional image and credibility is common-place. Frequent episodes of dressing gown days may occur and friends, family and neighbours consistently ask favours as your business is ‘just a hobby’.”

Click here to download the PDF.

Check out ‘FunkBunk the Movie’

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

FunkBunk – shelter for stray creatives from FunkBunk on Vimeo.

Do you want a video like this? Speak to Provide Design

New pricing structure at FunkBunk

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Now FunkBunk comes in four different flavours to suit your office needs. We realise that hotdesking doesn’t suit everyone, and renting a permanent office might not float some people’s boats either.

With FunkBunk becoming a more active coworking WorkHub every day, serving Milton Keynes, Leighton Buzzard and Aylesbury we are learning more about small businesses needs and wanted to offer more flexibility and better pricing to you guys.

So we created FunkMonk, FunkTrunk, FunkChunk & FunkBunker to cater for the ‘homeworker who just needs to get out of the house occasionally’ through to the ‘small business that needs a permanent base to develop their enterprise from’.

Check out all the details here!

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We will also be adding online payment and booking to our system soon. Watch this space for more info.

Gary’s News Flash – Episode 2

Monday, March 8th, 2010

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More news from around the globe (that you probably wont ready anywhere else) from the ‘Bunks resident news hound – Mr Gary…

About 5,200 naked people embraced each other on the steps of Sydney’s iconic Opera House on Monday
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_ODD_AUSTRALIA_NUDE_ART?SITE=KPUA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Yellowstone Park Attempts To Increase Ranger Population With New Mating Program

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/yellowstone_park_attempts?utm_source=onion_rss_daily

Amazing X-ray: Boy survives rod ripping through 10 vital organs

http://metro.mobi/;channelId=home/getArticle.jsp?in_article_id=815041

Strike wave sends oil price soaring

http://www.moneyweek.com/investments/stock-markets/strike-wave-sends-oil-price-soaring-47567.aspx

Gaddafi calls for jihad against Switzerland over minaret ban

http://mobile.france24.com/en/20100226-libya-gaddafi-calls-jihad-against-switzerland-over-minaret-ban-revenge-hannibal

Boozy chimp sent to rehab

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61P3SM20100226

Lady GaGa Has Told Her Female Fans To Be Celibate. Is It Any of Her Business?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-pemberton/lady-gaga-has-told-her-fe_b_481916.html

Second anthrax case confirmed in London

http://www.hpa.org.uk/webw/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb_C/1267025735873?p=1158945065095

Massive Antarctic iceberg threatens ocean circulation

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18595-massive-antarctic-iceberg-threatens-ocean-circulation.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

‘Record high’ for bad bank debts

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jzmDfUGiBqBzME-y13gQ8yzQ0hqw

Bishops slam pay-to-confess hotline

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/02/2833885.htm

Chile quake may have tipped Earth’s axis

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/03/02/chile.quake/index.html?eref=edition

Re-trial for ‘speeding’ reverend

http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/Retrial-for-39speeding39-reverend.6104437.jp

9-Pound Infant Barrels Way Down Birth Canal

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/9_pound_infant_barrels_way?utm_source=onion_rss_daily

Dutch anti-Islam MP in poll gains

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/03/20103492847982214.html

Now it’s the MK ‘road tax’

http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/Now-it39s-the-MK-39road.6104629.jp

Protests could be coming to Aylesbury soon

http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/Protests-could-be-coming-to.6123689.jp

Child’s play at NY airport sparks investigation

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/04/2835971.htm

Mexico detects first mutation of swine flu

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/04/2836326.htm

Gary’s News Flash – Episode 1

Friday, February 26th, 2010

18002_1MurrowCBS.jpgGary is a resident at FunkBunk and regularly keeps us all entertained with news of local and international origin. The kind of stories that never get shown on TV and only make the smallest of columns in the local rags.

We asked Gary if he could give us a quick digest of his stories of the week – so here goes the first installment of ‘Gary’s News Flash’!

Nursery children opposite brothel in Bletchley
http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/39Nursery-children-opposite-brothel39.6104399.jp

UFO spotted above Tesco in Aylesbury
http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/UFOs-spotted-above-Tescos-in.6083632.jp

Rough diamond sells for $40m
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/26/2831873.htm

Church sues filmmakers for destroying Rio’s Christ
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/26/2831212.htm

Giant iceberg breaks off from Antarctic glacier
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61P15H20100226?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29

Explosive vomit and skin eruptions: arsenic’s heyday
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/02/explosive-vomit-and-skin-eruptions-arsenics-heyday.php?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Did Saddam Hussein model himself on Darth Vader?
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/02/did-saddam-model-himself-on-darth-vader.php?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Star fattens planet and then devours it
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527494.500-star-fattens-planet-and-then-devours-it.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Vindaloo Against Violence Day declared at Qld Parliament
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/24/2829133.htm?site=news

Speeding hearse sets world record
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/21/2825847.htm?site=news

Pastor screens gay porn in church
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/18/2822948.htm?site=news

Pensioner guilty of Boy Scouts hammer threats
http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/Pensioner-guilty-of-Boy-Scouts.6089043.jp

Is working from home for you?

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

If you have ever worked from home, you will have loved some elements of it and quite disliked others. I have to admit I always liked being able to start when I wanted, and working in PJs was quite novel, but it really didn’t do my business any good. It sure as hell is risky ironing and answering the phone at the same time!

It turns out that loads of people in the blog world feel the same way too. It was quite enlightening to read some of their articles and comments. It made us feel that creating a workhub and a coworking space in the form of FunkBunk was really was the right thing to do.

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5 Bad Work at Home Habits: Are You Guilty?
http://freelancefolder.com/5-bad-work-at-home-habits-are-you-guilty/

5 downsides of working at home
http://creativebriefing.com/5-downsides-of-working-at-home/

Working from home the good, the bad and the lessons learnt
http://www.lumenica.com/2010/01/workingfromhome/

5 Bad Work-at-Home Habits to Avoid
http://www.typeamom.net/5-bad-work-at-home-habits-to-avoid.html

‘Working from home is billed as a kind of one-way ticket to personal nirvana’
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/jonathan-brown-working-from-home…

Live/Work Network & Work Hubs

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

There has been some interesting correspondence flying around recently and it turns out that the CLG (Communities and Local Government agency) have initiated research into workhubs as part of an enterprising low carbon national community. This research is with a view to setting up a national network for workhubs like FunkBunk.

We personally think this is great news as work hubs, coworking environments, shared workspaces (or whatever you would like to call them) like ours are the way forward for small business enterprise development in the uk. To find out that we are supporting a low carbon society as well makes us very happy.

The research is being carried out by the Live/Work Network and we shall be watching with interest and getting involved where we can. Improving our service along the way.

For all those FunkBunkers out there, there is a survey you can complete (before the 31st Jan) which will help with their research.

You can find it here.

And more information on the Live / Work Network here.

A unique type of fashion

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Many of the peeps here at FunkBunk choose to get a bit of their weekly nutrition from graze.com – a deliver-to-your-door nutritional nibbles service. The food they send out comes in a letterbox friendly recycled cardboard box.

Now being the environmentally conscious types here we have been saving up the boxes until a unique use for them comes along. The ‘Graze Box Tower’ currently sits at just over 8 feet tall.

Although not a use for all the boxes, FunkBunk are proud to present: Graze Box Glasses!


If you fancy getting your own Graze box of nutritional tasty nibbles and then making your own Graze Box glasses visit www.graze.com and enter promo code F9HHBZ8R

New People at FunkBunk

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

The weather may be turning outside but tucked up nice and warm here in the FunkBunk, I wanted to take the opportunity over a nice hot cuppa to tell you about some of the new people we now have here as residents.

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Richard Leggett
Richard is leading Flash developer, author and Adobe Community Expert – he also makes pretty good coffee too! Richard uses FunkBunk as the base for his operations.
http://www.richardleggett.co.uk


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Rachel Toy from Spirit Creative.
A previous hot desker at FunkBunk, Rachel has now taken up full time residence with her successful graphic design business.
http://www.spiritcreative.co.uk


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Rob Quinn from Purity Productions

Rob joins us at the end of November, bringing his established events management, design and production company to its new home at FunkBunk.
http://www.purityproductions.co.uk

There is definitely a buzz in the air here and with new hotdeskers www.netdojo.co.uk and www.datacatalyst.co.uk just starting to visit the ‘Bunk there is a strong sensation of good times in business for all. FunkBunk owners Provide Design and long term residents SIGA Vision are also going strong and growing their respective businesses.

There is still stacks of space here so if you would like to join us here at FunkBunk check our hot desks or cool spaces pages on this site or give us a call on 0845 003 9559!

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