TYOC is back!
The Year Of Collaboration, which last year set-up MPTweets and worked on a TheyWorkForYou type thing for Manchester City Council, is starting up again with a hack day this Saturday (12th June) from 11am at FlyThe.Coop (36-40 Edge Street, M4 1HN).
Come along with any ideas for things you’d like to collaborate on. You’re [...]

Fancy a day working from the Fly The Coop in Manchester’s Northern Quarter?
We’re offering a free desk each month.
Just tweet “I’d like to win a free Manchester hot-desk day at @fly_the_coop” and we’ll pick a winner at the start of every month. Follow us on Twitter @fly_the_coop and get tweeting!
Terms: The hot-desk day must be booked [...]

Good News! FlyThe.Coop currently has 2 permanent desks avaialable on a first-come first-served basis!
For only £200 per month you could have a desk in a vibrant space in the Northern Quarter with other freelancers and webby/techie folk. See our Members page to see who else works here. Don’t worry if you don’t do web design [...]

You’re invited to our launch co-working day on Wednesday 10th March 2010 from 9am – 5pm at MadLab/FlyThe.Coop (36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN).
Come along to meet other interesting freelancers and entrepreneurs, discover co-working, share what you’re working on, help and be helped, learn about collaboration opportunities and see the FlyThe.Coop space.
Celebrate the launch of [...]

We celebrated our existence last night, and it’s been a long road to get here.
Around 5 years ago, Co-Working days started happening once a month at MDDA, some of which were organised by Paul Robinson (our chariperson!). They were very well attended and showed the desire for a co-working space in Manchester. We then set-up [...]

Well, our first week has been very cold! The heaters in the building were not on over Christmas since no-one was using it so it has taken a few days for the building to warm up properly. But we’re nice and toasty now, so feel free to pop by and say hello!

Spirits have been high [...]

FlyThe.Coop’s first day is here!

We’re now open for you to come and share our space with us! We have 2 co-working desks available for you to use as hot-desks. Until we get the online booking sorted (which should be less than 2 weeks), please phone Ben on 07811197374 to book a desk. You will need [...]

Many thanks to everyone who helped paint and strip wallpaper in the weeks running up to Christmas. Also thanks to FlyThe.Coop member Guy Dickinson for loaning the money to pay a professional decorator to work his magic in the meeting room and on the floorboards just before Christmas. The results look like a massive improvement!

This coming weekend (19th & 20th) will be the last weekend we have to get the FlyThe.Coop space looking lovely before everyone is on holiday. So basically, whatever it looks like on Sunday evening, that is what we will be moving into on Jan 4th.
And there is still alot to do, here’s is a list:

Strip [...]

Now that we’ve got a lock on the door and knocked down a wall, it doesn’t mean there’s not hard work yet to do!
This Sunday (13th) from 11am onwards, we will be painting and stripping wallpaper in the FlyThe.Coop space, 36-40 Edge Street, M4 1HN.
Please come along to help out and bring any paint trays, [...]