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Studio Space at GTC's House of Cooperation:
If like us you think life tastes better when you hit that sweet spot between art, community and enterprise - a space in our studios might be just what you need.  Good Things Collective was build by people from the area, that love it, believe in it and are prepared to stand up and make good things happen.  We work hard to create space for people to connect, share food and ideas, creating the conditions for new and exiting collaborations.  Spaces, as and when they become available, are aimed at for artists, creative practitioners and social enterprises alike (or any blend thereof).  

Practitioners that undertake socially rooted or beneficial work, particularly those that value working with people as opposed to for people - inline with GTC's objectives will be prioritised.  
Studio's and studio spaces are taken on a monthly rolling licence, contracts will be issues accordingly with fee's paid on the first day of the month.  Keys will be issued with an initial key Fee of £25.
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Growing the House: Over coming months we're looking to extend our occupation in the premises to include the rear section of the building creating a more holistic creative community hub.  This includes developing a community space that will in good weather extend into the garden with scope for developing a creative community cafe, gallery and gift shop alongside the studios.  It's very much our vision that this will be able to host a range of activities and events run by both GTC and members of GTC.  

The hub will also offer a workshop room, project space / workshop, and shoe free training room (upstairs).  These spaces will create additional opportunities for us and also help to ensure an improved connection between community and studio holders.  These spaces are available to hire with a 50% reduction for members of the collective. 

Storage: As you'd expect, a lot of people require storage and unfortunately, as we're committed to making the spaces we have as useful as we can storage is limited and the fairest way to do this it to charge a small fee for temporary storage.  We are working together to identify potential solutions longer term for this as a number of members make work that can quickly become hard to store in their space and still have room to work.  Its worth factoring your storage needs into the space you tell us you require.

Parking: We have 5 parking spaces available, as things get busier, we are likely to implement a booking system for parking spaces, we also offer secure bicycle parking (capacity for 10 bikes).

Equipment: GTC manage a bank of gazebo's, tables and benches, portable PA and other items that can be hired out, again with 50% off for members that may help get your work out and about.  

House Sessions: We host a monthly house session on the 2nd Wednesday of the month for artists entrepreneurs that have their own practice.  This helps us to spend some time learning and reflecting together, but also ensure a high level of peer support across the house and wider collective.  

Booking Platform: We've invested a chunk of time in setting up a booking platform for activities taking place on our website with an app version available for regulars to the house.  If you're looking to run workshops, clubs or other activities as part of your practice, we hope this might help reduce some of the extra time sucks that can go into arranging.  

Collective Marketing: We put together a quarterly programme, monthly newsletters and regular social media posts including calendars detailing the work of the collective both at the house and elsewhere.  This is not expected to replace the need to market your own activities and events but it might help get a bit more reach.

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Studios are situated over 3 floors of the house.  Unfortunately all our studios involve accessing via stairs, even the ground floor.  We are aware this is not ideal as we are keen to make creative workspace as accessible as possible but the house is very much consistent with a more Victorian logic.  Our workshops and events however do benefit from level access and accessible facilities.  

Studios and spaces vary in size and cost, but are all charged the same per square meter cost to include a share of utilities and overheads.  There are no hidden extra costs.

We recommend assessing how frequently you think you will be able to make use of your space as often with artist studios people over estimate how much time they have to spend there.  The house does offer a range of co-working spaces and opportunities with booking available in blocks of 4 hours on either a PAYG basis with options to subscribe or buy blocks of sessions at a 10-15% discount.  If you don't need space full time, this could be a more flexible and cost efficient option to consider.  Do check our website for more details or give us a holler if you think this might work better for you. 
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Are you aware that studio space is exclusively made available for members of the collective and that if successful you will be expected to join, attend an induction (if you haven't already) and participate in collective activities.  For studio holders, this includes a commitment to participating in our quarterly open house events.  

To Join GTC please apply using this link  Good Things Collective Membership application.

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