WORKHUBS is a consulting subsidiary of the Live Work Network. We help clients to establish tailor-made business ‘hubs’ for micro-businesses, especially home-based and live/work businesses.
WORKHUBS is a consulting subsidiary of the Live Work Network. We help clients to establish tailor-made business ‘hubs’ for micro-businesses, especially home-based and live/work businesses.
We offer developers, local authorities, regional development agencies and regeneration partnerships expert advice to help them set up:
· shared facilities in attractive communal areas
· projects that bring together and support previously isolated/fragmented micro businesses, especially those based at home
WHAT WE OFFER
We offer consultancy services to enable local authorities, business support agencies, RDAs and live/work developers to create effective home based business hubs - and human networking projects to run them
These 'workhubs' can either be based in existing appropriate facilities or in new developments such as live/work schemes
We can advise on:
· where a hub should be located
· who should run it
· group constitutions
· access to funding
· the best kind of website and email news systems
· appropriate staffing or voluntary support
· outputs systems to track impact and prove worth
· ways to gather members and make home based businesses visible
· shared buying power
· effective ways to consult without 'survey fatigue'
· systems to maximise members' profitability and collaborative working

OUR WORK
We have advised on hub specifications for projects including
· Live/Work Eco Park (Falmouth)
· Burford Wharf (Stratford, East London)
· Napton Brickworks (Warwickshire)
· St Erth Workstation (St Ives)
· Perran Foundry (Truro)
· Swan Court (Petersfield, Hants)
· Headland Creative Business Quarter (Penzance)
CAN WE HELP YOU?
Think Workhubs can help you to establish and support either:
· a live/work development hub facility or
· a network of home based businesses with some shared facilities?
Then email Workhubs director Tim Dwelly or call him on 01736 331872