[Swansea Hackspace] Moving Options

[Brian J Hoskins]

I am interested to know more about the Sketty property.  Is someone able to
send me a mail with the details?

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Nathan Hackett <nhackett1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm in Sketty quite often so I can add some local info... Parking can be a
> struggle after the schools let out but generally it's manageable. The food
> options are great, besides Tesco and Sainsburys, theres a really nice
> sandwich place, Indian, Chinese, decent chippie. Maybe not as much foot
> traffic as Uplands, but still plenty busy, students etc. Would be great for
> exposure. Generally a safe and friendly area. Also 5 minutes walk from
> Singleton park, which has enough wide open spaces for quadcopters etc (not
> sure about their policies on that though).
>
> Hope that helps!
>
>
> On 23/04/16 09:10, Nathan Hackett wrote:
>
> Personally I'd rather we had less space but with more autonomy and
> available funds, rather than stay at the current location. How small is
> 'small' anyway? :)
>
> I actually emailed Justin personally as he invited us to. I said in my
> email more or less that I wouldn't divulge the exact details because I
> realised that the list was public and googleable and there was a risk that
> someone else may jump in and grab the premises. You may recall that I
> raised this issue as a problem when this list was created.  Justin has
> provided me with some details which I obviously can't post here.
>
> I don't think the space we are considering is too small. Going from the
> square footage this seems to be a far better space than we had upstairs in
> our original room in Wind Street and from the nature of the place it is
> fairly typical of the kind of windowed premises we would be likely to
> consider anywhere in Swansea.
>
> I'd rather we had somewhere in the town centre but this isn't too remote.
> It is walkable to and from the train station if, like me, you enjoy walking.
> There are good public transport links.
>
> Having chatted with various people at the social evenings and done some
> research myself on rents  in Swansea I think if this is available and
> Justin says it is within our means to rent, then it is a good option.
> The current space is nice. It is spacious which is a big advantage. The
> downsides are the cost, which we can't currently afford long term its lack
> of shop windows
> and the problems of access, shared access etc. Shop windows are going to
> be important if we are going to advertise ourselves and the Sketty proposed
> place has them.
>
> What does concern me, after chatting to people at the socials, is that
> currently we are actually living beyond our means. This means as Justin
> said we need more members. I think Nathan sums up my feelings on the matter
> as autonomy and available funds are actually rather critical to meet our
> desires in the long term.
> We are more likely to gain new members if we have a more public presence
> rather than being hidden away in a building in town, even if it is
> conveniently located.
> I  am convinced that there are more potential members to find out there.
>
> I am wondering if it is worth considering having an informal meeting to
> inform people or even if one of the directors just turns up with a laptop
> and plugs it into our large screen and shows us the details on Monday night
> during the social?
>
> I appreciate all the work you and the other directors are doing to get
> this resolved, it doesn't go unnoticed.
>
>
> Hear Hear!
> I understand that a lot of the work is being done by Gerrit. So thanks
> Gerrit!
>
> Neil
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Justin Mitchell <
> justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> As many of you will have heard, we have been investigating alternative
>> locations for the Hackspace ever since TechHub vacated our building and
>> moved up the road to High Street.
>>
>> We had been holding back on publicly announcing a move because we were
>> very close to finalising the details for a number of spaces, all of
>> which have now fallen through for one reason or another.
>>
>> As of today we have only two options available to us, and we need to
>> make the decisions quickly:
>>
>> We can stay where we are, but it is expensive, and we will need to find
>> additional members and income to be able to afford to stay there, as
>> well as needing to arrange better door and internet access.
>>
>> or, we can move to a smaller place we have been offered in Sketty. it
>> needs some tidying and decorating, but is much more affordable, and
>> would give us our own space with door access and window space.
>>
>> At this point we would welcome opinions from the members on which option
>> they would prefer.
>>
>> We would especially be interested in any alternatives that people are
>> aware of, there are a lot of empty properties around Swansea, so you
>> would need to know they are actually available and at roughly what cost
>> to be of any help.
>>
>> If anyone wants more details on any of the above please email me or the
>> other directors off-list.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
>>
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