Hello all,
We’re here with your weekly dose of coworking space news and local goings on.
In this week’s newsletter, we’re sharing a reminder about our monthly memberships - and the usual ‘5 local-ish links’.
The Old Post Office is open for coworking Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, with Bryn and Mark, Pendra, Jen and Ellie.
See you then! Book your desk in advance online.
— Kerry, on behalf of TOPO
Discounted regular bookings
If you cowork once or twice a week, or would like to get into the habit, maybe you’d be interested in signing up to a discounted monthly subscription?
When you have purchased your subscription, you can book a desk as usual through our bookings page. We’ll email you a unique subscription code to apply at the checkout whenever you want to book a desk. And you can always purchase additional sessions at the usual rate if you hit your monthly limit.
And if after a month, you decide it’s not for you (or, you only needed it for a month anyway) you can always cancel - or upgrade and add extra days!
Sign up online (or email us if you have questions) [email protected]
Photo by Jack Spicer Adams, with regulars Ev and Erin in the foreground, me in the background.
C90 Community Chorus
Join Sounds Local CIC for Stirchley’s latest singing group, held every Friday, 7–9pm at The Old Post Office. Come along and sing your heart out to hits from ‘the best decade in pop culture!’ (the 90s). The group is open to adults who want to come together and sing for fun, to make new friends, and maybe to perform the odd gig in public in future. Spaces are limited to 20, book online - your first time is free.
Local links
At the time of writing, there are two tickets left for Alys Fowler’s book event at Thimblemill Library. ‘Peatlands is a beautiful urgent and personal exploration of bogs and the role they must play in saving our planet.’ 7.30pm Tuesday 1 July, tickets via Ticketsource
Also on Tuesday 1 July at 7.30pm, online community Doing It For The Kids (that I wholeheartedly recommend from my time as a freelance parent) are running an online event - Parental Leave for the Self Employed. I asked Frankie more about the event (I love her). ‘We’ll talk about maternity leave and pay (sole trader vs limited company), paternity leave and adoption leave. We’ll also touch on Shared Parental Leave, though this only applies if you have an employed partner.’ Tickets are £14.99 and available through Nugget Savings
Which brings me to raising awareness for The Dad Shift - ‘Two weeks isn’t enough”. Add your name to the petition for better paternity leave now - www.dadshift.org.uk
The Creative Boom IRL Summer Mixer meet-up is taking at Kilder Bar (Digbeth) from 6-8pm on Thursday 3 July. The event is a way of bringing the creative community together - offline. Reserve your spot and come say hello. Message Katy Cowan on Linkedin if you’re in. Or via Creative Boom’s - The Studio
On Saturday 5 July, as well as Black Sabbath being in town - it’s also CoCoMAD! Cotteridge Park’s local festival from 12noon. Please don’t forget to donate a fiver if you do go - it’s run by a lovely local bunch of volunteers, including our very own Max!
Queens Heath Pride is back for 2025 on Sunday 6 July in Kings Heath
Queer Life Drawing are heading to Winterbourne House and Gardens on Sunday 6 July for a garden walk and drawing from 2pm. Tickets are £10pp, and your ticket grants you access to the house and gardens until they close at 5pm, you are free to stay as long or as short as you like until then. Tickets via Outsavvy
We are always happy to share what you’re working on, especially if you are part of the coworking space community - ALSO if you go to an event because you found out about it via our newsletter, please do tell us! via [email protected]
The Old Post Office coworking space
The coworking space is open this week Monday to Friday between 9am-5pm
You can book:
a half day (9am-12.30pm / 1.30pm-5pm)
full day (9am-5pm)
school hours (9am-3pm)
With no ongoing commitment needed (though we’d of course love to have you back).
If you’d like to start something more regular here, you may like to consider a discounted monthly membership such a half a day a week / one day a week.