Are you Mates with The Skiff yet?

Here’s a cheap, easy way to use The Skiff a bit more.

Over the last five months we’ve welcomed more than 200 of you through our pink doors to cowork, participate in community events and collaborate on various projects. One of the things you’ve asked us most is how much we charge people to use the space. We’ve always been clear on what it costs if you want to become a part-time member with your own key (£150+VAT per month) or a full-time member with your own desk and key (£250+VAT per month). However lots of you don’t want to make that kind of commitment but do want a nice little place to work in the middle of town where you can comfortably:

• Collaborate on projects
• Get some work done
• Use a reliable internet connection
• Charge a laptop
• Spend time with like-minded people
• Help yourself to tea and coffee
• Organise events

 
We want to see more of you enjoying The Skiff and at the same time make sure that what we’re doing brings in enough money to keep the space going. Since we opened in November we’ve been very happy for people like you to stop by up to once a week for some free coworking. We’ve been hesitant to change this but what we now ask is this:

If you feel you’ve got some significant value out of spending time at The Skiff, or if you’ve spent more than around three days trying the Skiff for free, please consider either of the following:

• Contributing £15 including VAT per day of use using this button:
  
  
  

• Becoming a Mate of the Skiff for £20 including VAT per month using this button:
  
  
  

As a Mate of The Skiff you’ll get the following:

• About 10 hours use of The Skiff over each month. Applies to: Coworking, meeting, project and events spaces subject to availability
• Additional days at £5 including VAT per day using this button:
  
  
  

  (that adds up to around £55 per month for 2 days a week usage)

• As much tea, coffee, WiFi & power as you can drink while you are here
• Recognition as a long term member of our community – you and your projects will be featured on our wall of Mates both online and in the space

Bookings

If you’d like to book one of our spaces for exclusive use, maybe for a meeting, workshop or event the following charges will apply:

• Commercial use – basement £25 + VAT per hour, meeting room £10 + VAT per hour
• Events with an admission fee – The lower of £25 + VAT per hour or 50% of takings.
• Mates use – basement £10 per hour, meeting room £5 per hour
• Free Community Events – FREE
• Crew use – FREE

Please email bookings@theskiff.org to make a reservation.

We still consider the development of The Skiff to be at an experimental stage. We’ll be accepting signups at these rates until the end of May and then we’ll review them to make sure they are having a positive effect on space. If you have any specific needs that don’t seem to fit with what what we’re offering, please let us know and we’ll see if we can work something out.

Updated 28th April: We’ve had feedback from a few of you saying that some of the above was a little confusing. We were saying that we were happy for people to drop in for free while also asking people to pay for 10 hours use a month. This wasn’t very clear so we’ve decided to instead say that we’d like people to consider paying for use of The Skiff once they’ve spent three days trying it out. You being here is more important to us than you paying for it but if none of us pays for it none of us will be here.

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