Thursday, June 17th, 2010
This month sees the 1st annual WorkHubs conference at the BT Business Centre in London (29/06/2010) and FunkBunk will be attending to drink some coffee, eat some sandwiches and generally hob knob about the place talking to anyone who will listen.
As well as the consumption of sandwiches, founder of FunkBunk, Sam Cranwell will be sitting on a panel talking about supporting rural homeworkers.
Apparently there are tonnes of you guys working from home in the Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire villages such as Stewkley, Wing, Cublington, Soulbury, Wingrave, Eaton Bray, Edlesborough and Pitstone to name a few.
Sam will be taking part in a discussion with Roger Turner (Head of Rural Economies, Commission for Rural Communities), Ian Baker (head of economy, DEFRA) & Nick Kirkham (Founder of Old Glove Factory, Holt, Wiltshire – a fine coworking space). They will be trying to uncover what benefits places like FunkBunk have for homeworkers in rural communities and the challenges we face in setting up and running our establishments.
If we get some piccies or videos from the event we will post them here!
Find out more at: www.workhubs.co.uk
Tags: co-working, collaborative, coworking, creative hot desk, creative workspace, desk rental, desk space, freelance designer, Funkbunk, homeworkers, Hot desk, leighton buzzard, milton keynes, mobile working, office Bedfordshire, office Buckinghamshire, Sam Cranwell, shared work space, work hub, workhub
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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.
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Saturday, May 15th, 2010
Tags: aylesbury, clearhead media, co-working, collaborative, coworking, creative hot desk, creative workspace, desk rental, desk space, Funkbunk, Hot desk, meeting room, milton keynes, mobile working, office Bedfordshire, office Buckinghamshire, office Milton Keynes, originals, Provide design, Sam Cranwell, serviced office Bedfordshire, serviced office London, serviced office Milton Keynes, shared work space, simon chambers, virtual office
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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!
We will also be adding online payment and booking to our system soon. Watch this space for more info.
Tags: aylesbury, co-working, collaborative, coworking, creative hot desk, creative workspace, desk rental, desk space, Funkbunk, Hot desk, hot desk London, leighton buzzard, meeting room, milton keynes, mobile working, office Bedfordshire, office Buckinghamshire, office Milton Keynes, office space, office space London, serviced office Bedfordshire, serviced office Milton Keynes, shared work space, virtual office, work hub, workhub
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Friday, April 9th, 2010
The wonderful creative magazine Weave (http://www.weave.de) have published us in a great article about coworking and workhubs in the latest issue. Now if only we spoke German…… but a friend of ours does and assures us it is a very nice article. We will try and post a transcript.
It also uses a photograph that we haven’t used enough and I really quite like:
“A place to work, a place to focus, a place to inspire, a place to achieve, a place to interact, your place, FunkBunk.”
Tags: co-working, collaborative, coworking, creative workspace, desk rental, desk space, Funkbunk, leighton buzzard, milton keynes, mobile working, office Bedfordshire, office Buckinghamshire, office Milton Keynes, shared work space, virtual office, work hub, workhub
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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.
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…
Tags: aylesbury, co-working, collaborative, coworking, creative hot desk, creative workspace, desk rental, desk space, freelance copywriter, freelance designer, freelance web designer, Funkbunk, Hot desk, leighton buzzard, meeting room, milton keynes, mobile working, office Bedfordshire, office Buckinghamshire, office Milton Keynes, office space, Provide design, shared work space, virtual office, work hub, workhub, working from home
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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.
Tags: art, aylesbury, co-working, collaborative, coworking, creative hot desk, creative workspace, desk rental, desk space, Funkbunk, Hot desk, leighton buzzard, low carbon, meeting room, milton keynes, office space, shared work space, virtual office, work hub, workhub
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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.
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
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
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!
Tags: aylesbury, co-working, collaborative, coworking, creative workspace, design agency Milton Keynes, desk rental, desk space, freelance designer, Funkbunk, Hot desk, leighton buzzard, milton keynes, office Bedfordshire, office Buckinghamshire, office Milton Keynes, Provide design, purity productions, richard leggett, serviced office Bedfordshire, serviced office Milton Keynes, shared work space, spirit creative, virtual office
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
The last bottle has been taken to the bottle bank, the last can recycled and today we dine on leftover crisps and chocolate buttons. As I sit here looking through photos of last night I get a warm feeling that as far as 1st birthday parties go, last night was excellent.
Around 60 people attended the event, enjoying the fantastic art on display, the easy relaxed atmosphere, cool music, a few drinks and an exclusive showing of a short film in our studio.
The art exhibition in the gallery is now open to the public for the rest of September, Mon – Fri, 9am – 6pm so come and see it all for yourself if didn’t make it to the party.
Our thanks goes out to all who contributed, collaborated and congregated!
Tags: art, aylesbury, co-working, collaborative, coworking, creative agency, creative hot desk, creative workspace, desk rental, desk space, Funkbunk, gallery, gallery hire, gallery space, Hot desk, leighton buzzard, meeting room, milton keynes, mobile working, office Bedfordshire, office Buckinghamshire, office Milton Keynes, originals, Provide design, shared work space, virtual office
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
WEDNESDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER – 6.30PM – 10PM
It’s hard to believe that FunkBunk has been running for a year already! To celebrate, we have organised a very special, very cool event filled with art, film, music and great company.
This isn’t just any ordinary party either. Have a look at what’s going on:
Exclusive exhibition of work from artists Carl Bou Mansour, Phil Toy, Chris Sims, Lynda Cornwell, Pete Carling and more!
The first UK screening of ‘Continuum’. A short film by Wing/Seattle based director Jason Purcell
If you wish to exhibit your art click here.
We are super excited about all of this, and it will be a great opportunity for a spot of informal networking, some inspiration and definitely some fun.
Some refreshments will be provided but you are welcome to bring your own.
Places are limited, guests are welcome (please tell us how many). Email us at party@funkbunk.com to guarantee your party place.
Come celebrate with us!
Tags: art, aylesbury, co-working, collaborative, coworking, creative workspace, desk rental, desk space, Funkbunk, gallery, gallery hire, gallery space, hot desk London, leighton buzzard, meeting room, milton keynes, originals, party, virtual office
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