Some interesting points there. Public liability insurance could be a pain, but there must be something that you do differently if there's membership involved.<div>There must be some info online about this...</div><div>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Simon Hobson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk" target="_blank">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dave Leack wrote:<br>
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For our current office space, <<a href="http://www.lancasterlab.org.uk/wiki/index.php/File:DavesOffice.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.lancasterlab.org.<u></u>uk/wiki/index.php/File:<u></u>DavesOffice.jpg</a>>picture link (excuse the mess), we pay roughly £400 a month. Actually, thinking about it, I don't know how reasonable that is. Something to think about though. (maybe we could get a 50% subsidy from the council, then we could afford a space this size with 20 members at a tenner each...)<br>
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HacMan (<a href="http://hacman.org.uk" target="_blank">http://hacman.org.uk</a> ) charge £25/month.<br>
They've recently relocated as MADlab wasn't really big enough, plus there were constraints - eg can't make a lot of noise if the meeting space is in use by another group. So that's 16 full members to pay the rent, more like 20+ by the time you've paid the rates and utilities etc - less if you can get any discount/grant towards the costs.<br>
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Of course, you do need to have some structure and safety rules in place - or you can get to be in the papers :<br>
<a href="http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/943138-196/makeit-labs-the-new-hackerspace-in-nashua.html" target="_blank">http://www.nashuatelegraph.<u></u>com/news/943138-196/makeit-<u></u>labs-the-new-hackerspace-in-<u></u>nashua.html</a> (linked from the Wikipedia article on Hackspaces)<br>
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I'd love to be within easy (read cost affordable !) commuting distance of one - even Lancaster doesn't do it for me, being up near the end of the 40 mile cul-de-sac that is the A590 !<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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