Devon Work Hubs

Employment Hubs: supporting local communities across Devon

Devon County Council is set to expand its network of Youth and Adult Employment Hubs across the county to support people into employment and training.

Working in partnership with four district councils (East Devon, Exeter City, Mid Devon and North Devon), the County Council already has a number of Hubs in operation at Barnstaple Library, Cullompton Library, Exeter Library, and at the...

Devon: The perfect holiday destination - even if you’re working

While Devon has long been a popular destination for tourists during the summer holidays, it’s now also becoming a hotspot for visitors on a “workcation”.

Devon’s Work Hubs are reporting that they are being used more regularly by visitors looking for a place to work in order to extend their stay in the county.

While Devon can boast two National Parks, five National Landscapes...

Devon Work Hubs to mark National Women's Enterprise Week and National Freelancers Day

Coworking spaces in the Devon Work Hubs network will be marking National Women’s Enterprise Week and National Freelancers Day next week.

Two of them, The Tribe and Newton Abbot Library’s Work:Space , will be joining forces to celebrate both events.

National Women’s Enterprise Week , which runs from Monday 17 to Friday 21 June, is designed to support and encourage women to...

Coworking opens up colourful career opportunities for blogger

Award-winning travel blogger and digital content professional Claire Hall says that coworking has helped her branch out her business interests over the last couple of years.

She has been blogging for more than a decade through her Tin Box Traveller website which is one of the top-ranked family travel blogs in the UK.

Claire started her freelance career a couple of years...

Newton Abbot Work:Space works for Joanne

Award winning Devon businesswoman Joanne Manville firmly believes that Work Hubs can play an important role in building a successful business.

Joanne can run her virtual assistance business from anywhere in the world to provide back-office, personal assistant support to small business owners.

While the majority of her time is spent working from home, she says the Newton...

Samantha's business success story after joining The Tribe

For local author and illustrator Samantha Williams, The Tribe Work Hub in Totnes has been a real-life fairy tale.

When she first went to the coworking space for female entrepreneurs, her intention was simply to finish the series of five books she had been working on. She has ended up achieving that and so much more.

Samantha started writing and illustrating several years ago...

Devon Work Hubs - home to growing business communities

The way many people work has changed forever since the coronavirus pandemic.

More people are working from home or adopting a hybrid option shared between work and home – and Work Hubs across Devon are playing a key role in helping provide flexibility for people looking for workspace.

The Devon Work Hub network launched in 2012, initially with two work hubs. It has since...

Devon Work Hubs offering free one-day trial to celebrate National Coworking Day

To mark National Coworking Day next month (June), 14 of Devon’s Work Hubs will be offering a free one-day trial to new clients.

The work hubs participating in the event are offering people the opportunity to work from their local hub, with the majority of them providing free work spaces on Monday 6 June and Tavistock Enterprise Hub on Thursday 9 June.

As spaces are limited,...