The Common Desk community
About sixty people use Common Desk in a normal week: designers, developers, writers, a boat-builder, two accountants and a man who repairs vintage typewriters. Most of them started as hot-desk members and stayed because of the people.
Every Friday morning at 09:00 the kitchen fills up for the community breakfast. Someone brings pastries, someone else makes the coffee, and for twenty minutes nobody talks about work. New members are introduced by name and given a tour of the lockers by whoever is closest.
The kitchen is shared, and the rules are simple. Wash your cup, label your food, and leave the last of the milk for the next person. The espresso machine is serviced every month and descaled every week by a rota that the members wrote themselves.
If you would like to help shape the space, take the member survey or propose an event of your own. We run two events a month and most of them started as a member's idea.
Take the member survey or Propose an event.