Brighton coworking blooms in winter
November 27, 2008 – Graeme Sutherland – Print
When The Werks opened last spring, Brighton got it’s first proper coworking venue: A place you could go and work with others for minimal cost in a supportive and like minded community, on a formal or informal basis. The Werks is a superb blend of community, professional workspace, learning, collaboration tool and party. I’m there a few days a week at the moment and love it.
However, Brighton being Brighton, and as the days close in, we’ve now got two other proper coworking options to try out.
The Skiff is a small, bright space in the heart of Brighton’s North Lanes. Good food, drink and coffee are close by, and your hosts, the crew from Inuda, are open, sharing and all around good value. Pink chairs, nautical-themed room names and Bills just around the corner add to the fun. And they said I can bring in the puppy too :-)
And to get down by the seaside, opening any day now is upstairs @ gemini’s, the much talked about geek bar made real. This is a licensed space, with wifi, food, and open late, and will become the key venue for local social media and geek events. What an alternative. At the seaside, coworking.
Ah, Brighton, we luves ya.
And that brings up two things that we’ve been chatting about:
- How do we find each other when we are all coworking all over town? We need microdopplr for that.
- and.. Can we have a Brighton-wide coworking card, that supports all of the coworking spaces to support diversity of spaces and having different places for different moods?
If you haven’t tried coworking, come down and try it. You’ll be amazed by how much work gets done and how useful and fun it is to have like minds around.


Hi there, lovely puppy by the way :-)
Just a note to say Hi! from another coworking space on the Brighton/Hove border, 200 metres from the sea is our lovely shared studio, Chapel Studios, in Chapel Mews at the bottom of Waterloo Street.
We’ve been here for 2 years now, starting as Desk Space Hove (www.deskspacehove.com), before moving with a loyal community into coworking at the beginning of the year. We’ve now moved into our next iteration, forming a co-working company, Digital United, the Web Cooperative (launching early in the new year with a party at the studio, http://www.digitalunited.co.uk), which is a digital consultancy owned and operated by its freelance members, so we’re welcoming any and all skilled freelancers to drop by the studio and find out more…
All the Best,
Ralf and the Chapel Studios / Digital United crew