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“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’.”
FunkBunk – shelter for stray creatives from FunkBunk on Vimeo.
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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.
Josh just showed me this awesome video about Photoshop CS5′s Puppet Warp feature. I cannot tell you how many times this would have been useful in the past. We are really getting quite excited about Photoshop CS5 here at FunkBunk and i’m sure the first FunkBunker to buy it will be everyone’s friend! I certainly am saving my pennies!
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…
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.
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
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!
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!
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