Monday, August 16th, 2010
The wonders of Twitter have been distracting us of late (not hard, I know) and we have been neglecting our blog somewhat. So as it has been a month since I last mentioned what has been going on here, we thought we’d post a quick rundown of recent events.
Most of all we must say there has been a general feeling of industriousness here at FunkBunk over the last few months. There has been coworking and collaboration a-plenty as Bunkers Provide Design, Hallway Studios and Purity Productions have been working together to produce an online events management system and new website, due to launch in August. It has been great to see everyone coming together organically to produce some really great, effective work.
FunkBunk were also proud to be part of the WorkHubs conference on the 29th June. The conference, held at BT’s Business Centre and attended by over 120 people confirmed a national and public interest in the WorkHub & Coworking concept. FunkBunk is just one of many fantastic WorkHubs all over the UK and an outcome of the conference was that a supporting network will be created to support work spaces like ours - the next generation of workspaces to fit the low carbon economy. You can find out more about the conference here: http://www.liveworknet.com/live-work-article580.html
On the 4th August we hosted our first ever Jelly. The peeps from Chiltern Jelly came together for a spot of monthly co-working and the event went down so well they have rebooked for next month with a view to making the Jelly a monthly feature here at FunkBunk. A Jelly, in case you were wondering is a free all day event were people from all different industries (mainly home workers) come together to simply work in a different environment. We supply the tea, coffee, desks and broadband and Chiltern Jelly even supplied home baked cakes! It’s a great way to change your working space for a day and meet some new people. We look forward to hosting many more!
You can find out more about Chiltern Jelly here and book yourself on the next one on the 1st Sept here.
On a silly note, a Buzz Lightyear costume somehow made it into the ‘Bunk and it was shoe horned into a video competition for Olympus called ‘Read My Lips’….. You can see the slightly surreal effort online here.
FunkBunk are also now proud to be part of the newly formed Milton Keynes Design Forum. This group promises to be shining light for design in the Milton Keynes area. We shall definitely be posting on this more in the future but for now, if you are a professional connected with the design industry you should signing up to their website.
Our new pricing plan at FunkBunk is proving popular and we are loving meeting all the new FunkMonks when they come in for their couple of day’s a month. There are still plenty of spaces available for both part time and full time desk rental packages. So whether you are looking for a permanent base or just hot desk to use as your second office on the odd occasion please get in touch. (Download the pricing plans here)
TTFN!
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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
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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
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
FunkBunk is about to celebrate it’s 1st Birthday!
We are doing so by throwing an exclusive invitation only party at FunkBunk on Wednesday the 16th of September 2009. Over 100 guests have been invited (there are still invitations available - if you would like to come please email party@funkbunk.com) and it promises to be a great night.
One of the major elements of the party is an exhibition of original work by talented artists in the FunkBunk Gallery. Several artists have been confirmed for the event but we are now offering the last few elements of wall space out to you.
We are looking for vibrant, modern, original work of a high standard - any media is being considered.
All artists submitting work will be invited to the party and the selected artists will be asked to supply the work to be installed on Monday the 14th Septemberin time for the party on the 16th. Selected work can be displayed free of charge up until the end of September - the FunkBunk gallery will be open to the public for this period of time.
Artists can choose to make their work available for sale if they wish, but more importantly this is an excellent opportunity to expose your work to your peers and an extended creative community.
Please submit images of your work for consideration to: iwanttobe@funkbunk.com
From the end of September onwards the FunkBunk gallery will be open to all artists to hire out. For all information about the gallery hire options please read here: FunkBunk Gallery Hire
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