Polly Orton is a co-director at SPACE YORK CIC - a community run co-working space based above Brew York on Walmgate, Community outreach office for YorSpace - York’s community land trust, and a freelance community organiser.
In this episode we mostly focus on SPACE, discussing the challenges of creating and operating a workspace that has community and affordability at its core.
We talk about the sacrifices that operating in this way requires the team to make, when they run the workspace around their own full time work, without taking payment for the time they’re putting in.
And of course we discuss the assets, challenges and benefits, of being a social enterprise operating in the city of York.
