This Saturday we had a fantastic time celebrating Makespace Oxford’s first birthday with many members of our networks and local community – and looking forward to another incredible year ahead! In just a year we have become a working home to over 30 purpose-driven local businesses, organisations and individuals, and had frequent community events attracting over 2,000 […]
We’re delighted to invite you to join us to celebrate Makespace Oxford’s 1st Birthday! We’ll be throwing a big Summer Party on Saturday 31st August, featuring open studios and guided tours, drinks by the canal, delicious barbecue from our local Deli, a bar stocked with local delights, exhibitions from our artists, makers and creators, cake competition, face […]
At Makespace Oxford we have a friendly and collaborative community of freelancers, social enterprises, small businesses and not-for-profit organisations. We’ve started monthly sessions to share experiences, challenges and learn from each other about how to make our organisations grow and work more effectively! At our Business Breakfasts we meet bright and early over coffee and pastries around […]
We are recruiting maternity cover for the Makespace Oxford Project Coordinator role. A little over a year since its launch, Makespace Oxford is the city’s first truly affordable community working and making space. We’ve built an environment in which the makers, fixers, thinkers and doers who work in our hub space on Aristotle Lane can thrive. We […]
This is a guest post called ‘A Space Come True’ from our friend Marta Rossato of Transition Town Reading. Marta interviewed Emma Gordon, co-ordinator here at Makespace Oxford, telling the whole story of how different groups started collaborating to make Makespace Oxford happen. People and ideas need the right space to thrive. Open, inclusive, beautiful and […]
At Makespace Oxford we are proud to be a home to many vibrant community-run studios, and individual artists – groups who are adding huge value to our community and cultural landscape, but who otherwise struggle to find anything approaching affordable studio workspace in our city. This Oxfordshire Art Weeks we are extremely happy to be hosting […]
Hi, I’m Ab. Let me tell you about my old morning routine. 7:30am wake up – and instead of leaping out of bed, filled with the kind of joyous freedom being your own boss bestows upon you, I spent an additional 1.5 hours lying in a state of panic and indecision as I tried to figure out […]
Emma Gordon, Makespace Coordinator on being part of a community-led and grassroots call to put empty shops to better use. Photos by Youssef Sida. Last night Makespace Oxford attended the “What to do about Oxford’s empty shops” community discussion group at Open House on Little Clarendon Street and what a turn out! Starting from a little post […]