IndyCube has partnered with Solna to offer Indycube Community members a free trial plus free access to their Smarter price plan. Create invoices in a flash, automate your cash flow, and reduce your exposure to risk.
2019 started off with a bang for us as we launched Indycube Bridgwater in association with Bridgwater Art Centre.
The Indycube board is looking for new board members/directors and we’d love for you to get involved.
Whether you're new to freelancing, or an old-hat, try these 5 top tips to make your working life easier.
Between 2004-09 I was the Communities First Co-ordinator with 3 CF Partnerships that arced to the north of Blackwood: Cefn Fforest, the Argoed ward (The Rock, Argoed, Markham, Hollybush, Man-moel) and Trinant & Pentwyn.
With Christmas fast approaching, here's a run down of our opening hours over Christmas and the new year.
Hello! I’m Louis, Indycube newbie working out of the Swansea coworking space. Great to meet you.
Indycube is bringing coworking to Bridgwater in partnership with the historic Bridgwater Arts Centre. The space will be launched officially on 7th January at 12:30pm.
We're offering Indycube members opportunity to have their portraits drawn by the incredibly talented Martin Jones at Martipants.
Gaming continues to the push the boundaries. VR headsets are becoming more affordable and console quality games are coming to mobile. It’s a far cry from the 1980s when home gaming went mainstream, a generation grew up playing on consoles like the Atari 2600 and Colecovision, or home computers like the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.
We're always on the look out for new IC spaces, supporting indie workers to work closer to home. Here's a run down of some upcoming locations.
We're starting a Caffi Cymraeg every Friday in Cardiff - all welcome! Dewch i ein Caffi Cymraeg yng Nghaerdydd.
At Indycube, we operate a four day working week, which means each member of the team gets a day to do whatever they like - relax, volunteer, be there for the school pick up, or work on other creative projects.
Stress affects everyone in some way. Workload, finances, diet, lack of sleep, social life, relationships, and plenty more aspects of everyday life can contribute to those overwhelming feelings. It becomes impossible to concentrate, to separate tasks and focus on one thing at a time. All of a sudden our colleagues, clients, and customers irritate us and we just want to be left alone.
This year's Eisteddfod was held in Cardiff Bay, only a stone's throw from IC Cardiff Bay in Mount Stuart Square. We took the opportunity to host various events over the course of the week.
Indycube Member Alex hosts his photo studio from IC Trade Street, and has kindly extended discount on photo sessions to other IC Members.
When coworking launched in America 13 years ago, it was a slow burner - founder Brad Neuberg reported that no one showed up for the first 2 months - but he persevered, and coworking as we know it today was born.
Hi, I'm Scott, 31 years old and a full time Indycube member working out of the Bridgend Innovation Centre. I’m mad about all things business!
What is a 'connector?' Russell Todd explores Merthyr Tydfil & explains why we want to be in towns like Merthyr, as well as bigger cities.
Hello I’m Jamie. I’m an Indycube member working out of Cardiff Trade Street and until twelve months ago I’d never really thought about being self-employed. But then the university where I worked went through a large redundancy programme and it was clear that if I stayed, I may have found myself in a role that I wouldn’t have been happy with. So I took the plunge and left.
Content, particularly online content like blog posts, videos, social media posts (including social cards and infographics) and even podcasts are all important ways to share your message, be it personal, branded or both.
DMC is a Manchester-based company specialising in Business Phone Systems. We've partnered with DMC to bring you 30% OFF their services, including standard business phone numbers, local, international and geographic numbers, the ability to make and recieve calls wherever you are in the world, and answer calls via your laptop.
The Bank Job is a daring new project running out of IC Walthamstow, designed to wipe out dangerous and predatory local debt.
In December 2017 and January 2018, Galaxias Tech spent time in Indycube Swansea, along with a cohort of students from University of Wales Trinity Saint David. They used the space to develop tech-based projects, eat pizza & share ideas with our IC users. IC user Eifion of Torchy whipped up a video for us....
Meet Rob, a PhD candidate exploring the quandaries of creating character through digital media. Rob lives at the foot of the Brecon Beacons in Wales, & utilises both the gorgeous surrounding landscape and Indycube Coworking in the formation of his project.
What are the differences between working as a sole trader and setting up a limited company? Mart Abramov of TaxScouts shares his thoughts on this to help you choose the most suitable business structure for your venture.
There've been a few changes over at IC HQ lately, and we're really pleased to have three new team members on board! We'll let them introduce themselves :)
We're pleased to see that the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee has included ALL of our recommendations in its report to the government, released today. When Mark spoke in parliament back in January, he took the collective voice of our members with him, and asked for three things:
A small team from Oxfam used Indycube St Mary Street while they were moving from one office to another, and found coworking really useful as in-between.
When you are running a small business you cannot possibly do everything yourself. It might be how you start off, or perhaps you outsource some functions initially, but if you want to grow then you will need to think about employing other people within your business.
One of Indycube's partners, Robert Owen Community Banking Fund (ROCBF), has scooped top UK honours from an international foundation.
At Indycube, we’ve all either been self-employed in the past, or still work independently atop our roles at IC. At one point or another, we’ve all encountered the same problems as you, our users and members, which is what inspired us to launch our Member Benefits Package in the first place.
Our biggest bugbear? Late Payments.
‘HCSB’ @ IC | Walthamstow selling printed ‘bank notes’ to raise money to buy local debt.
First there were the banks. Sending credit cards through the post, offering easy loans. They overstretched, teetered. Then came the billion-dollar bailouts, recession, austerity, poverty and payday loans. Then, slowly, came the movement: a piecemeal, sporadic effort to buy back the debt of ordinary people. Now in north-east London, an enterprise that is part art installation, part stunt and part charitable endeavour, has brought all the threads together: a bank that prints its own money, sells it for real tender and uses the proceeds to buy back the debt.
As of April 1st, membership to Indycube Community will include a FREE desk day per month at any of our coworking spaces.
In October last year we announced we were giving away FREE membership to our benefits package until the end of March 2018. Hundreds signed up and we’re really grateful to all those who’ve joined and become our “founding members”.
IndyCube has partnered with InMyBag to offer Indycube Community members 15% off gadget insurance. You can insure your portable devices with 15% off the quoted cost at inmybag.co.
Our Wales-based sites will remain closed over March 1st and 2nd 2018. Thank you for your patience - curl up, enjoy the snow and keep warm!
In its most basic form, (pardon the pun) Universal Basic Income is a regular, unconditional payment for every citizen across the country. Understandably, there’s still argument about the figures - but the general consensus is that it should be enough to live off, i.e. a living wage.
Love it or loathe it, networking is an intrinsic part of running your own business. Getting to know new people and potential clients is imperative if you want to push forward and secure future customers. But it doesn't all have to be suits and business cards.
"Going Paperless" is the ethos of digitising anything that is unnecessarily applied to paper, such as invoices, documents, letters and cheques.
Indycube Community have been asked to give evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee tomorrow morning (Wednesday 17th January) regarding Universal Credit (UC). Mark Hooper will be speaking as Founder of a cooperative representing freelancers and the self-employed, and has gathered evidence from Indycube Community members and individuals who have found themselves affected by the recent rollout of Universal Credit in the UK.
Jo Hinchcliffe has come on board as a Connector for IC. His role will involve liaisng with members, traveling from coworking space to coworking space, and drinking alot of coffee. Jo wrote a great post about Universal Basic Income following his first week with us, which we thought we'd post here, because sharing is caring:
An opportunity to come and meet tax and accountancy professionals to discuss any questions you may have in a free drop-in clinic. Whether you are unsure how to form your business or if Corporation Tax needs to be paid, need to file a personal tax return for Income Tax, want to discuss financing a new project, gain an understanding of a shareholder's agreement, have to work out which VAT scheme to use or find out how to run your own Payroll you can come and ask the questions you need to our friendly team.
In 2014, Sarah gave birth to a baby girl. She quickly learned the true cost of motherhood, and since the birth of her second child in 2016, feels she has been priced out of a fulfilling career due to the overwhelming cost of childcare.
As 2017 draws to a close and we begin to unwind, we’re also looking forward to a brand new year and all it has to bring. Even as they set up their Christmas trees, freelancers and indie workers everywhere are busy preparing for the future of work, with certain needs and concerns prioritised above the rest. We asked our members what was most important to them - this is what we learned.
We opened our Walthamstow Indycube as of December 15th, and are offering the use of the space for free until the 22nd for small businesses and freelancers to try out in the run up to Christmas. It's located in the Old Cooperative Bank on Hoe St in Walthamstow, and you can just turn up to use the space.
