Flexible Workspace Provider Profile – Meanwhile Space

Meanwhile Space Flexible Workspace

Read our guide to find out what type of flexible workspace is offered by Meanwhile Space

What types of flexible workspace products do Meanwhile Space provide?

Meanwhile Space creates a range of workspace options including office space in London available on a flexible short-term basis.

It has done this in partnership with London borough councils including Southwark council and Lambeth council creating Tripod in Brixton.

The Tripod workspace is located at Lambeth Town Hall in Brixton – 3 minutes from Brixton stations.

It offers fixed desk space rental, large studio office space and open studio pods.

Tripod is described as a hub for creative, tech and social businesses with features including business-grade fibre-optic broadband, bike storage with shower facilities, a free bookable shared meeting room, kitchen facilities, break-out rooms, and a full events calendar.

The studio office spaces are ideal for teams, start-ups or SMEs requiring 2 to 8 desks and the fixed desks are ideal for anyone who is looking for a quiet and flexible space to work.

Meanwhile Space also offers flexible office space in Southwark at LJ Works at Gastineau Yard.

The company also revitalises spaces in other parts of London and across the UK and is constantly looking for new and exciting projects.

Meanwhile Space Locations 

Meanwhile Space Brixton – Tripod, 1 Brixton Hill, London SW2 1RW

Meanwhile Space Pimlico – Ebury Edge, Edgson House, 43 Ebury Bridge Road, London SW1W 8DX

Meanwhile Space Old Street – Dingley Space, 27 Dingley Place, London EC1V 8BR

Meanwhile Space Wood Green – Blue House Yard, 5 River Park Road, London N22 7TB

Meanwhile Space Walthamstow – 5 Argall Avenue, Walthamstow, East London, E10 7QD

We have the pleasure of providing access to Meanwhile Space flexible offices for rent in London.

Who are Meanwhile Space?

Founded in 2009, Meanwhile Space is a company that transforms and revitalises commercial real estate in London that has become temporarily vacant or redundant.

It is described as a social enterprise that unlocks disused spaces and creates affordable neighbourhood workspace.

It looks to activate vacant commercial properties with uses that benefit the community – it creates an interim or temporary space, whilst something else is waiting to happen.

Meanwhile Space unlocks underused space in London and other parts of the UK for the benefit of community cohesion, placemaking and enterprise.

It creates affordable and easy access business space on flexible contract terms for startup enterprises to support entrepreneurship and community cohesion.

It creates interim spaces for a variety of uses as well as fixed desk incubators and open-plan offices available for rent.

Meanwhile Space Social Media

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Facts about Meanwhile Space 

• Meanwhile Space was founded in 2009 and is a community interest company (CIC).
• The company is a pioneering social enterprise at the forefront of ‘meanwhile’ or interim uses for commercial property, creating vibrant communities by breathing life into temporarily redundant spaces.
• As well as creating low-cost flexible workspaces, it creates makerspaces, workshops, retail units, cafes and office spaces for rent.
• It works in partnership with commercial real estate consultants, councils, legal firms, housing trusts, business centre operators, flexible workspace providers, and place-makers, to name just a few.
• After its first 8 years of projects, it had supported over 600 people into space and created over 200 jobs.
• The award-winning company has been featured extensively in the media, including the BBC, Guardian, Evening Standard, Time Out and the Sunday Times.

Why choose Meanwhile Space flexible offices for rent in London?

Meanwhile Space specialises in creating vibrant communities around the spaces that it transforms so as well as creating affordable office space for rent in London, it also offers a range of low-cost flexible creative workspaces, makerspaces, workshops, cafes and pop-up retail units.

Part of the company’s mission is to create and safeguard jobs in the area where it is working and, by 2017, it had already created over 200 jobs in London.

It is a trusted company and has delivered projects in partnership with 16 London borough councils. It has also helped public and private landlords save more than £1m in business rates savings across 60 buildings totalling 215,000 sqft of space.

Other partners include legal firms, flexible workspace operators, sustainability consultants, urban planners and London office space providers.

Projects of Meanwhile Space are often celebrated for their championing of both affordability and sustainability and will frequently feature in well-respected architecture publications such as the RIBA Journal.

The company is frequently achieving recognition from other bodies, too – it has been listed in the NatWest SE100 Index as a Top 100 Social Enterprise, it received a Meanwhile Use Commendation from the New London Architecture Awards, it was a finalist in the European Prize for Urban Public Space, and was a finalist at the Estates Gazette Collaborators Award, amongst many others.