From Jon at leeds hackspace
- Stay on top of all the boring bureaucratic stuff.
- Ensure whatever you go for you can afford (if you have a firm commitment to membership and some savings that will cover you for 12 months then you're you should be ok).
- Don't go for somewhere out of the way - a nice central easily accessible space will pay dividends in new members.
- If you can get somewhere small with current membership and there's room to expand if membership explodes then that will be a major plus - moving SUCKS.
From Paul at leeds hackspace
- Make sure anyone you need to communicate with had your new address.
- Remember to cancel the phone/electricty/milk, etc. Otherwise six months later you discover thet you're saddled with a large unpaid bill for a service you haven't been using, and didn't know about because the bills were sent to someone who no longer comes to the hackspace.
- Many of our problems may have been exacerbated because we didn't just move spaces, we pretty much rebuilt the whole organisation.
From Russ at London hackspace
- London managed to get a 300% bump in membership revenue in 4 months which covered significant rent increase
- What you need to try and fathom how many more potential members there might be, and if there are, why they haven't already joined.
- Try and work out how to spread the word further than the current community. Have a big moving-in party.
To contact
- nottingham
- brighton