Hello Raw Spacers,
Our final newsletter of the year and a round up of our last few social events and updates to our space. Over the next few weeks we’ll be decorating the office and getting ready for our Christmas party on the 12th December!
Here are our newsletter highlights:
✨ Social dates for your calendar – games, our Christmas Fayre and join us for mince pies
✨ This month’s member spotlight is Emma Broadhurst
As always, if you have feedback or suggestions for our newsletter or space, drop us an email or chat with Emma.
Best wishes,
Emma, your Community Manager ☺️
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Space News 🗞
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Pumpkin Carving 🎃
We had a lot of fun listening to spooooky music and carving out pumpkins to take home. Here are a few snaps of our designs!
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Drinks Social 🥳
We had our last one of the year (before our Christmas party on the 12th!) and 12 of us gathered at The Grace for drinks, chats and lots of laughing. It was wonderful to see new members join us, and get to know the rest of our community. We’ll be arranging our next social in the New Year but for now enjoy some snaps from the evening.
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Here are a few snaps from our last social at The Grace ☺️
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Games Social 🎮
Our next Games Night is on Tuesday 26th November from 5pm at Chance & Counters down the road. We’ve got a table booked, if you want to join us let Emma know ASAP so we can reserve you a spot! The QR code to join our Whatsapp group is in the kitchen 🎲
Our last games night was a roaring success with 8 of us bluffing our way through the Sheriff of Nottingham trying to smuggle cheese, bread, apples and contraband into the town. Here’s an action picture of our setup!
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Space Updates 🚀
We’ve had a new sink and tap installed, that gives us more sink space as well as consistent hot water. It now has a temperature gauge to show how hot the water is and you can adjust accordingly to how hot you like it.
We’ve popped some new seats on the toilets for extra comfort and cushion.
We’ve taken down a wall in the newly renamed Elm room and will be decorating the back wall ready to add some extra hot desks in there.
We’ve fixed a hole in the meeting room wall that’s ready to be painted.
Let us know if you have any suggestions for how to keep our space looking and feeling it’s best!
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Lunch on us if you leave us a Google review 🥙
How do you fancy a free lunch? We’re looking members to leave us a Google review so we can continue to grow our wonderful community 🥰 The more reviews we have, the easier it is for people to find us. If you leave us a review, we’ll buy you lunch (up to £10) as part of our Wednesday lunch club! Use key words such as meeting room, hot desking, office space and coworking 👩🏾💻
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Housekeeping Items 📄
A gentle reminder to please be mindful when taking phone calls in the main space or in our phone booths. Noise can easily travel around our open room layout and our phone booths are not 100% soundproofed. Please talk into your headset versus the whole room ☺️ The same request goes for playing content on your phone, please use headphones to watch or listen to anything. If you’re struggling with someone’s noise levels, we invite you to kindly and politely talk to them and share your preference ☎️
A gentle reminder to keep an eye on your hours if you’re on our Bronze and Silver memberships. We trust you to stay within your hours and let us know if you need to adjust your membership level to match your current hot desking needs ☺️
If you wish to pause or cancel your membership, please note that we require 30 days notice. As a small, independent business it supports us to manage our membership numbers and keep growing our community🌱
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New Members 🤩
Welcome to our new members who joined us in November:
Ria Ward, Liza Brook, Faye Page, Aaron James, Martin Talbot, Jude Kriwald and Ashley Wynn.
New members, don’t forget to send us your picture & bio info so we can pop you on our member’s board in the kitchen 📸
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Member Spotlight 🔦
This month we’re spotlighting Emma Broadhurst who’s been a member with us for 12 months.
What do you do for work?
Head of Finance and Operations for The Human Edge, a Social Enterprise delivering mentoring and coaching programmes to empower entrepreneurs and leaders with skills, confidence, and connections for impactful growth.
What do you love to do outside of work?
Going to Italy, reading, yoga, long walks, chasing my toddler, pottering around Gloucester road & cooking.
What do you love most about the Raw Space Community?
I absolutely love the people at Raw Space! Everyone is so friendly, and I’ve made some fantastic friends here. Emma, the Community Manager, is amazing and truly brings the space to life. Since my colleagues are spread across the globe, I often miss the sense of connection that comes from in-person collaboration. Raw Space fills that gap perfectly and makes my workdays so much more fulfilling.
What can Raw Spacers come to you for?
For a friendly chat, recommendations on local spots like cafes, shops, and yoga classes, or to practice Italian! On the work side, I’m happy to offer advice on mentoring and coaching, international development, entrepreneurship, business operations, finance, or HR. And if you’re ever in need of pizza for an event, I know a guy who does fantastic pizza catering and even sells pizza dough!
Who would you like to connect with?
Everyone! I love meeting new people and since joining Raw Space have discovered so many jobs and sectors that I didn’t even know existed! I’m really interested at the moment in organisational development and AI for business processes, so if you have any experience in these I would love to chat.
How can people get in touch?
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Would you like to be featured next month?
If so we’d love to hear from you!
This is a great opportunity to introduce yourself to our community, let us know what you do, who you are and the best way to connect with you.
Please fill out this form and Emma will be in touch.
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Raw Space Events 🎪
If you’re looking to connect with your fellow Raw Spacers, come join us at one of our many events. They are a great way to get to know each other, take a break from work and have fun!
We have some running weekly and monthly, so plenty of choice depending on your schedule. No need to sign up, just show up on the day or join our WhatsApp groups to stay in the loop ✨
Wednesdays: Lunch together – family style @ 1pm
Thursdays: Poker Night @ 7pm
Monthly Thursday Drinks: We decide on the day – our next date will be in 2025 so keep your eyes peeled!
Monthly Games Night: 26th November @ 5pm at Chance & Counters
Christmas Fayre: 4th December from 4pm- 6pm
Mince Pies: 12th December @ 4.30pm in our office
Christmas Party: 12th December @ 6.30pm at The Lanes (you need a ticket to attend)
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External Events / Future Events 🌟
Want to share your event with our community or perhaps there is there an event you’d like to see or organise?
Send us an email to [email protected] with all the details and you can be featured in our next newsletter.
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Meeting Room 🪑
Did you know that even if you’re not a member of our space you can rent out our office meeting room?
Whether you need it for a couple of hours or the whole day, we’ve got you covered. And the best thing is you can book it all online via our website.
Click here to find out more or email us at [email protected].
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Virtual Office 📤
Need to register your business but don’t have an office address to use?
Check out our Bristol virtual office service where you can register your business and have your post delivered to our office space.
Check out our Level 1 and Level 2 mailing subscriptions here to find out more.
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