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Welcome to Rentadesk

 

Rentadesk nurtures coworking communities in the most beautiful and convenient central London locations.

If you're a freelancer or budding entrepreneur currently working from home, or thinking of leaving your 9 to 5 and starting a new business, Rentadesk is your opportunity to experience an exiting and energetic environment with like minded adventurers!

Our coworking spaces are in the vibrant centre of London, always within minutes of a tube station for easy access. 

What's included?

  • Community love :)
  •  Use of your own dedicated permanent desk and storage pedestal
  • Your own unique coded access to the building 24/7/365
  • 24Mbps wireless broadband, plus separate backup line
  • Free coffee, tea, milk and snacks
  • Fair use printing, photocopying & scanning
  • Fully modernised kitchens
  • Natural Lighting throughout
  • Beautiful rear gardens so you can meet/greet and work outside on sunny days!
  • Mailing Address
  • Clean, well-maintained offices and communal areas
  • Free library of the latest business books and magazines
  • Free membership to Rentadesk's weekly social & networking events including snacks and drinks

Ready to start? Join Rentadesk, or book a viewing.

How Rentadesk came about...

Having incorporated a small business back in 2002 and working from home for the first 2 years, I started looking for a few desk spaces in London Soho so that I could be near my customers and have extra space for a part-time assistant.

I wrote up a leaflet asking 'desk space wanted' and posted it in several buildings in the area to see if anyone would like to rent out one or two desks. Several people replied, they all wanted in the region of £500 per month per desk; this would have been a corner desk on a floor sharing with one other company, so basically sharing with 'employees', not business owners.

I also looked at a few serviced offices which offered a minimum office size of 2 desks with prices around £1,400 per month for 12 month contracts, way out of my budget, and not the most appropriate use of my resources I thought, each pound spent on desk space being a pound I couldn't spend on paying for an assistant, who was crucial to grow my business.

One of the respondents to my leafleting campaign was a tenant who had much more than a few desks available. He wanted to sublet his entire office as his fashion label was expanding to a larger office around the corner and didn't need the space any more. The office was on a standard commercial lease with 20 months left to go, so he had quite a liability to the landlord that he preferred not to pay if at all possible.

I negotiated a reasonable rent, and decided to move in to this 265sq ft office at Market Place next to Carluccios restaurant. With my desk and my part time assistant, there was still room for a few other desks, so I decided to rent them out individually. Everyone who came and viewed the desk said they thought it was a great idea and soon we had all the spare desks rented (we had a web designer, a genomics expert, a security specialist and a fashion stylist).

Mixing with these inspiring individuals and having such a warm working community was a incredibly positive side-effect of having such an eclectic mix of people in one place. The metaphorical light bulb went on, and so that's how Rentadesk was born. Once the lease came to an end at Market Place, we all moved together to a beautiful grade II listed building at Marshall Street, Soho, incorporated Rentadesk, and started Rentadesk proper.

We're now looking to grow Rentadesk organically, one building at a time, and to focus on growing a strong working and social community that provides genuine inspiration and practical benefit to all members.