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Take a lunchtime stroll to the fresh air of Highbury Fields. Tennis courts for the energetic, tree-lined walks for peace and quiet. Well connected too: King's Cross in ten minutes, Shoreditch in five minutes more by overground. Keep things interesting. Become a member of our office space in Highbury & Islington.
Amenities
Coffee Lounge
From humble cups of coffee to vibrant lunchtime salads, our lounge space has it all.
Co-working Space
Creative office space in Highbury & Islington, encouraging businesses to learn and grow together.
Meeting Rooms
Including all the technology needed for smooth and effective collaboration.
Phone Booths
Privacy is important for any business. Our sound-proof booths give you that.
Full Flexibility
Are you looking for flexibility for you and your team? Speak to our team to about pay-as-you-go office space solution.
Bike Storage and Showers
We know how many people cycle to work. More than enough racks for everyone and showers - essential after cycling in or the lunchtime HIIT session.
Outdoor Space
Breathe in some fresh air and work under the sun. Unwind at evening BBQs and drinks events.
Stocked Kitchenettes
You don’t have to go out for lunch. Everything you need to fix something up yourself.
Dog Friendly
Sometimes the loving presence of your pet is just the kind of motivation you need.
Day Passes
Weekend Passes
Hot Desk
Dedicated Desk
Private Office
Day Passes
Pay-as-you-go, no strings attached.
Book online for a chosen weekday.
Starts from £40 + VAT
Room for 2 to 250+.
Wander when you feel like it. Close the door for peace and quiet.
Enjoy the space.
Starts from £450 +VAT per desk with flexible memberships options available upon request
Room for 2 to 250+.
Wander when you feel like it. Close the door for peace and quiet.
Enjoy the space.
Starts from £450 +VAT per desk with flexible memberships options available upon request
Fill in your details and let us know what you are after and will get in touch shortly.
Book Your Hot Desk
Please note that an initial deposit of one month's membership will be collected upon checkout. Our team will then be in touch to set up an ongoing debit for your membership.
Book Event
Creative spaces, ideal for entertaining. Business led or fun in nature. Use the space every way you can.
THANK YOU
Thank you for your enquiry, a member of the Uncommon team will be in touch shortly to confirm your booking
Join SL Martin and Gordon Eichhorst in discussion with special guests for a discussion on founder life with relatable and insightful content.
Impact Central is an accelerator and mentor network which supports founders committed to creating businesses that rebuild our society and environment. And we want to use this showcase show you some great examples!
Have you written resolutions and broken them all by lunchtime on Jan 1st?
Perhaps you enjoy vision board workshops but get distracted by June?
This workshop will not only give you a plan, but the tools and habit forming techniques to ensure your 2022 starts with a bounce and continues to flourish.
Collaboration is business critical; successful collaboration leads to better quality, more original outputs, improved productivity and people enjoying their work. But just when we need it most, collaboration has taken a real hit. The trust and connection on which it depends doesn’t come as naturally when we’re on video calls all day or having to navigate a hybrid format. Now that hybrid working is here to stay, companies need to find new and effective ways to collaborate.
You’ll come away with:
– An understanding of how hybrid collaboration works
– A model for creating and facilitating collaborations that support your specific goals
– An understanding of how to make the technology work for you rather than getting in your way
– Exercises, tools and techniques to improve your team’s productivity and performance
– The skills to optimise hybrid collaboration by encouraging and managing behaviours
– Curve’s Collaboration Canvas to help you design your ways of working
– An output document that captures all of the learnings for you to share with your team
Discount for Uncommon members | Limited Spaces Available | Code: Please refer to the Uncommon members perks page
Have you written resolutions and broken them all by lunchtime on Jan 1st?
Perhaps you enjoy vision board workshops but get distracted by June?
This workshop will not only give you a plan, but the tools and habit forming techniques to ensure your 2022 starts with a bounce and continues to flourish.
Discount for Uncommon members
WELLNESS IN THE WORKPLACE: ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE AND VALUES
1:1 sessions: How you to grow your startup leanly, from getting it off the ground in the first place to reducing costs & increasing revenue
About this event
Discover how you to grow your startup leanly, from getting it off the ground in the first place through to reducing costs & increasing revenue.
Back by popular demand, these 1 hour 1:1 individual sessions give you the opportunity to talk about your startup specifically and get tailored guidance and advice.
Areas such as:
– How to take your idea and turn it in to a business
– Getting your startup off the ground
– Moving your startup forwards in an affordable way
Susan Laurie uses her own experience to help people become more mindful about alcohol and drinking. She is not anti alcohol, but wants others to be aware of the things that she wishes she had known. Following university Susan had a successful career in marketing in the pharmaceutical industry and was then an entrepreneur with her own company, before succumbing to a serious drinking problem. This escalated to a life-threatening situation, despite many attempts at familiar interventions including counselling, rehab and Alcoholics Anonymous. After her recovery, she wrote the book ‘From Rock Bottom To Sober Forever’, which has provided inspiration and hope to thousands of people and has been praised for the exceptional account of the stealth-like progression of alcohol addiction, and she uses her unique experience to help people avoid alcohol becoming problematic.
Discounted for Uncommon Members | Code: Please refer to the Uncommon member perks page | Ladies only event
In this workshop, Rosie Davies-Smith, founder of PR Dispatch, will show you how to build a well-thought-out influencer strategy. From establishing your objectives to ways to build meaningful relationships with influencers.
OUR SPEAKER, ROSIE DAVIES-SMITH
Rosie Davies-Smith is the founder of PR Dispatch – the UK’s first affordable PR membership platform dedicated to supporting product-based businesses in doing their own PR and gaining magazine coverage themselves. Their membership offering also includes an Influencer Membership where they teach businesses how to work with influencers.
Discounted for Uncommon Members | Code: Please refer to the Uncommon member perks page | Ladies only event
Collaboration is business critical; successful collaboration leads to better quality, more original outputs, improved productivity and people enjoying their work. But just when we need it most, collaboration has taken a real hit. The trust and connection on which it depends doesn’t come as naturally when we’re on video calls all day or having to navigate a hybrid format. Now that hybrid working is here to stay, companies need to find new and effective ways to collaborate.
You’ll come away with:
– An understanding of how hybrid collaboration works
– A model for creating and facilitating collaborations that support your specific goals
– An understanding of how to make the technology work for you rather than getting in your way
– Exercises, tools and techniques to improve your team’s productivity and performance
– The skills to optimise hybrid collaboration by encouraging and managing behaviours
– Curve’s Collaboration Canvas to help you design your ways of working
– An output document that captures all of the learnings for you to share with your team
Discount for Uncommon members | Limited Spaces Available | Code: Please refer to the Uncommon members perks page
Nicole Crentsil is a Ghanaian-British cultural curator, entrepreneur and investor based in London. Nicole is the CEO of Black Girl Fest – a platform dedicated to Black women, girls and non-binary people. She’s also the founder of BIG SIS, a new network supporting the personal development of creative working women.
Nicole currently sits on the Members Advisory Board for the Tate and is also a VC Scout and Angel Investor with Ada Ventures- a £34 million fund investing in underrepresented founders.
In 2018, Forbes listed Nicole as one of 100 women to follow on Twitter and LinkedIn. In the same year, TimeOut named Nicole as 1 of 50 Londoner’s shaping the city’s cultural landscape. Nicole is passionate about connecting women, young people and underrepresented groups to art, culture and events.
1-1:30PM | Friday 5th November | Uncommon Instagram Live
Session Overview
Dr Kemi’s talk will be on how to switch your skincare routine from Summer to Winter in order to maintain healthy, glowing refreshed skin.
About Dr Kemi
NHS Doctor and Skinthusiast. Dr. Kemi has recently been working on the front-lines during COVID. She has recently swapped her hospital scrubs for skincare ingredients and is sharing her passion for skin.
11-11:30AM | Friday 5th November | Uncommon Instagram Live
Session Overview
Ohana will guide you through a gua sha facial massage to liberate your skin. Blood flow increases, fine lines and wrinkles reduce, and complexion calms with each stroke. This is as much about skincare to flush out toxins, tone, firm and revitalise the skin, as it is about the self care ritual. Using a rose quartz crystal promotes unconditional self love to support balance, energy and wellbeing. We will use our CBD face oil or serum as a foundation to help the gua sha glide and reduce existing tensions. CBD is a powerful anti-inflammatory that helps to soothe the skin for a healthy glow. Join this self care skincare session!
About Ohana Skin
Jasmin Thomas is the founder of Ohana Skincare, a plant-based CBD company that prioritises your wellbeing through skincare products and self care tools. Ohana products are produced from natural ingredients and contain unique formulations that combine powerful plant properties that serve the skin, from seed to self. The brand provides solutions for women’s health, holistically, and will be launching a platform to better track this to overcome the gap many women experience in their journey of wellbeing.
Jasmin was diagnosed with MS in 2015. She started using cannabis to alleviate various frustrating symptoms of her condition. Her medical journey led to her professional one, which now allows her to pursue her passions.
In 2018, Jasmin co-founded entOURage Network, a women’s empowerment organisation that cultivates a platform for people to engage and explore Europe’s legal cannabis market. Jasmin speaks at conferences and events globally about skincare to self-care.
3-3:30PM | Friday 5th November | Uncommon Instagram Live
Session Overview
Coconuts aren’t just for sipping in summer! Virginutty founder Mel Legarda deep dives into how we can use the humble coconut to keep our bodies feeling nourished, moisturiser and glowing through the winter months. In this session you’ll learn 3 top tips for involving coconut oil into your self care routine.
About Virginutty
Virginutty is an ethical coconut oil skincare, homeware and wellness brand hand-poured in London. Founded by Melissa Legarda, a British Filipina entrepreneur passionate about natural ingredients, Virginutty’s mission is to empower the minority through coconuts.
9:30-10AM | Friday 5th November | Uncommon Instagram Live
Session Overview
In this session, Registered Nutritional Therapist Sophie Trotman will walk us through some ways that we can improve our energy levels in the Winter months. Tune in for info on specific nutrients and ways of eating to optimise our energy.
About Sophie
Sophie is a Registered Nutritional Therapist DipION mBANT CNHC. Sophie sees clients on a 1:1 basis, helping them with a variety of concerns such as low energy, weight management, gut health issues, anxiety, poor sleep and skin conditions. Sophie also runs workshops for businesses and writes for multiple publications.
A busy sales job and an active London social life left Sophie feeling low-energy. She desperately wanted information on how to improve her health, but was left confused reading conflicting online articles and taking advice off Instagram! She decided to study a four-year Nutritional Therapy Diploma at the prestigious and world-renowned Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London, studying the latest evidence-based research from pioneering experts and partaking in clinical practice.
9:30AM | Thursday 27 May | Uncommon Instagram Live
Session Overview
In this session, OTO will answer your questions about CBD Oil, its benefits, what it can help you with, and so much more.
About OTO
OTO started as a group of passionate, talented friends who sought to use the power of CBD to help themselves and others. Across most of the world, the benefits of CBD remained a mystery… misunderstood and mis-sold. That shouldn’t be the case. Their mission is to help people discover the power of CBD through thoughtful and effective products that easily and enjoyably fit into their daily lives.
In addition to our standard office data ports, we can supply a range of 1Gbs 8, 16, 24 and 48 port data switches.
8-Port Switch – 1Gbps – £175 one off lease cost & £100 set-up fee
16-Port Switch – 1Gbps – £340 one off lease cost & £100 set-up fee
24-Port Switch – 1Gbps – £390 one off lease cost & £100 set-up fee
48-Port Switch – 1Gbps – £570 one off lease cost & £100 set-up fee
Disaster Recovery
Cloud data backups enables yours business with a full range of features for backing up data stored on servers, desktops and notebooks, protecting mission-critical data. All data is stored in the cloud. You can access it online by secure sign-in from any location in the world.
We offer call recording with cloud storage. This is often a requirement for companies which conduct business via the telephone and can be required by law (for all FCA regulated businesses for example). You are provided with a web panel in which you can view all your call recordings.
Hunt Groups Plus
The Hunt Group Plus feature is a telephone number that forwards calls to every handset within its group. Your handsets can be programmed so that all handsets ring simultaneously and the first handset lifted will take the call, leaving the rest available to answer any subsequent calls.
Conference Phones
If you have the requirement to host your own telephony conferences, we are able to provide a conference phone to suit a range of different meeting environments.
Hosted VoIP Telephony
Our standard phone handset provided is a Yealink T21P E2. Each handset includes the following enterprise features:
All cabling and power packs required
UHC (Uncommon Handset Connect) License – this is the telephone number (1 per phone)
Voicemail & Voicemail to Email
Simultaneous Ring
Call Forwarding
Call Waiting
CLI ID Blocking
DND (Do not disturb)
Other models within the Yealink IP range are available depending on individual requirements. Pricing is available upon request.
VPN Tunnel
Windows VPN connections can be provisioned for Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol packets to encapsulate and send private network traffic.
Static IP Addressing
If you require the access to a specific piece of hardware remotely or for any other requirement, then a static IP can be obtained from us.
2:30PM-3PM | Friday 28 May | Uncommon Instagram Live
Session Overview
Within this session, Abby & Grace will cover tips on how to implement new habits and actually stick to them. They will include journal prompts and a habit tracker which you can find here and download before and after the session.
Remember you get to choose, keep what you love & throw out what you don’t
Remove the pressure & define your own new normal
About Abby & Grace
Grace & Abby are two millennials on a mission to help others find a way back to their true authentic self and find their feet in life. They offer a young and modern take on self-development through their popular podcast and online workshops which focus on self-love, spirituality and mindfulness. Through their platform they actively work on combatting the stigmas surrounding mental health, by having open and vulnerable conversations between themselves and their incredible guests. Grace & Abby’s journey started 7 years ago in fashion school where they bonded over their passion for self-development, the special bond between the two is what makes the process of self-discovery even more fun, ensuring plenty of laughs along the way.
We provide a next-generation Wi-Fi solution designed specifically for multi-tenanted buildings. Our managed wireless technology offers a dual-band access point which is operated via an SDN controller and supports 802.1x authentication.
Open Source Internet Access
Our Open Secure Internet Access (OSIA) delivers high-speed internet connectivity via a dedicated, fibre-optic leased line, delivering up to 2Gbps of synchronous connectivity to our office spaces. The connection is backed up with alternative connectivity routes, providing diverse resiliency of our network, negating any outages to our internet connectivity services.
Enterprise Plus Package
DDI & Line
Contract term to match your lease
Enterprise Features
Dedicated PBX server
Auto Attendant/Call Parking/Call Transfer
Call Recording
Uncommon Virtual Number
A virtual number is simply a telephone number which, rather than residing on a telephone or hunt group, is hosted on our system with the primary purpose of forwarding calls to a chosen destination.
Number Porting
We can port numbers from most other providers subject to you providing a Letter of Authority. There is an administration charge applicable to the porting of any quantity of numbers.
Auto Attendant
A numbered menu-system for routing calls. You may choose to record your own greeting / menu announcement or we can do this for you.
Enterprise Package
DDI & Line
3-Month Initial Contract
Enterprise Features
Free Local, National & UK Mobile Calls
Voicemail
Corporate Virtual Firewall
Our firewall service removes the need for a customer to install their own hardware firewall. It allows them to host services from their office which need to be accessed from outside of the office – for example, an email server.
We also offer dedicated bandwidth to customers in our hosted buildings because, for some businesses, a shared connection isn’t always sufficient to keep their network services online and performing at the right levels. Dedicated bandwidth guarantees access to a fixed amount of bandwidth which is unaffected by increased usage of other businesses in the building.
Our standard offering for dedicated internet access is as follows:
10 Mbps – £250 per month & £500 installation fees
25 Mbps – £350 per month & £500 installation fees
50 Mbps – £450 per month & £500 installation fees
100 Mbps – £600 per month & £500 installation fees
Other Data Rates – POA & POA
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED: THE ENTREPRENEUR’S JOURNEY IN CONSUMER WELLNESS
9:30-10AM | Thursday 27 May | Uncommon Instagram Live
Session Overview
We will start with sharing data and findings on how COVID-19 has shaped Consumer Wellness and what we can expect – what we can expect the new “normal” to be.
Linking this, Aly will speak a little about the highs and lows of his journey (which is not complete) and some of the tricks that he has adopted to manage the journey. A Q&A will then follow.
About Aly
Herbal Essentials founder Aly Rahimtoola is a global citizen with the perspective needed to lead a consumer goods company beyond its national borders. Aly was born in Pakistan and educated at Westminster School in London before graduating from Brown University in the United States. During a successful career in Shipping based in Dubai, Aly realized that more and more consumers were like him – yearning for brands that were genuinely authentic in everything they did but also high performance and affordable.
With these in mind, he founded Herbal Essentials, an award-winning skincare brand powered by pure Himalayan Spring Water which has been clinically proven to boost skin health. Herbal Essentials offers its customers affordable, clean, cruelty-free products that are made in France with minimum 90% natural origin content. The brand has launched in 13 global markets during the Pandemic and will launch with Superdrug in the UK this summer.
12:30PM-1PM | Friday 28 May | Uncommon Instagram Live
Session Overview
Paying special attention to the lower body and glutes (a muscle group often neglected) this class will guide you through controlled exercises to strengthen and shape your lower body. Strong glutes help with knee, hip and lower back health, so if you spend most of the day sitting down, this class is for you!
Intensity: Medium
What you’ll need: Grab whatever weights you can find along with your mat
About Rob
Rob is a fitness & wellness coach, and the co-founder of the workplace wellness consultancy; Mob Group.
As an Uncommon member, you have free access to their fitness, cooking and mindset classes via the members dashboard.
5PM-5:30PM | Friday 28 May | Uncommon Instagram Live
Session Overview
In this session, Talia will answer your questions about plant based diets, including what plant-based eating is, tips on how to maximise your nutrition when following a plant-based diet, myth busting, gut health & more!
About Talia
Talia Cecchele is a Registered Dietitian and founder of Talia Cecchele Nutrition. She works part-time in London’s leading private mental health hospital on a specialist eating disorders unit and part-time running her private practice where she and the team of Registered Dietitians support people to bring balance back to nutrition and improve their relationship with food. Talia also offers corporate wellness services.
9:30-10AM | Friday 28 May | Uncommon Instagram Live
Session Overview
Join us for an immersive experience in brewing Tea & Me’s blends across their Signature and Origins Collections. Enjoy a period to unwind and indulge in some me time. Their mantra is ‘Tea that embodies the phases of your day’, as their infusions are designed to aid you throughout your daily life and give your body what it needs in that moment.
The session will include understanding the different types of tea, how to brew, the intentions behind them and the benefits they offer.
6-6:30PM | Friday 28 May | Uncommon Instagram Live
Session Overview
Breathing is the only way that we can consciously control our autonomic nervous system, it has the power to calm us down, wake us up, pull us out of a funk, help us sleep better, feel better, manage emotion better and generally get better at this old thing called life. In this session, Lucy will give you a brief introduction into the magic of breathing properly but rather than just stick with the science, you’ll also dive into a few breath practices which you can use to give yourself an energy boost, help you sleep at night and help you get centred before that big pitch at work. The secret is all in the nose.
About Lucy
Lucy spent close to 10 years working in sales on the trading floor at two US investment banks but made the difficult decision back in 2020 to take a leap into the unknown and start over again which she wrote (and embarrassingly went viral) about here. Having secretly struggled with the pressures of juggling corporate life with a drive to find purpose, she spent a lot of time on her commutes diving into the world of self development, eastern philosophy and psychology in an effort to better manage her mind & find some sense of purpose. This journey led her to qualify as a yoga teacher back in 2019 whilst she was still working in finance and then subsequently as a Reiki practitioner, Breathwork facilitator, Ayurvedic consultant & coach. She is now working as a transformational coach, helping people transform their thinking, and in turn their lives, through deep guided self-reflection blended with bodywork, yoga & breath.
MobGroup’s new online portal, keeping you physically and mentally fit, whilst being more productive than ever, all whilst working from home!
At least seven live fitness classes every week, including HIIT, Yoga, Pilates, Boxing and more. New classes added every week.
Morning Mindset – Make your tea or coffee, tidy your desk and start your day right with live mindfulness practises and productivity exercises. In just 15 minutes, learn to manage your emotions, stay motivated, and unlock higher levels of productivity through priming your mind.
Live ‘Cookalongs’ with Mark – Our very own nutrition guru and future TV Chef will live stream as he cooks up a feast. We will post the ingredients list the day before, so you have time to get what you need and cook along with Mark.
Virtual Tour
