Patch Places
High street community clubs
- 1-20 employees
- Hospitality
- B2B
- Flexible working
- Networking
- Community
- Marylebone, London, UK
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Company mission
To create opportunity for people, work and communities on every UK high street. We create beautiful spaces for work, lifestyle, events and community gathering for a Work Near Home world of less commuting, more community.
Our take
In the past, powerful working hubs and the innovation that these bring have been limited to major cities. However, the Covid Pandemic and the development of cheap digital tools has challenged this idea, with many people getting used to working from home for a considerable amount of time. This has made many people realise the cost of a commute to their finances, stress levels, schedules, and time.
Patch believes that the ‘central office’ is a 19th century technology. Whilst they can be great places for collaboration and relationships, they aren't needed all the time. Patch want to introduce a new category: Work Near Home. This concept is geared to the growing “hybrid working” movement, placing an emphasis on individual needs, empowering local networks, and enabling impact of technology for access to opportunity.
The company is establishing a decentralized workspace by building co-working clubs across commuter towns in the UK. They take empty local high street shops and under-utilised landmark buildings, and turn them into “collaborative cultural spaces”. Having raised seed funding from a number of leading U.K. angel investors, Patch are focused on opening more sites in the year ahead.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- 24 days holiday + birthday + 8 days Bank Holidays
- Flexible and remote working on a custom needs basis
- Personal health and wellness budget
- Cycle to work
- Regular staff events
- Private healthcare
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2022
$3.9m
SERIES A
Apr 2021
$1.1m
Total funding: $5m
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Leadership
Freddie Fforde
(Founder)Previously Head of Operations at Movebubble, and Chief of Staff at OYO. Was part of the EF9 Cohort at Entrepreneur First in 2017.