Resources for New Media Freelancers in Brighton
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Wired Sussex has many resources freelancers can take advantage of, including a Projects Board listing available work and members directory. They also hold occasional networking events in Brighton.
Shared Office Space
The Skiff have co-working space available most days and also occasionally full time desk space. They're in the North Laine area, a few minutes from Brighton Station. Many local tech events use The Skiff in the evenings for their talks and meet ups.
The Werks is a shared office building near Palmeria Square which has standard desk space to hire and also drop in 'co-working' space, which is perfect if you need to occasionally escape your home office and work where you can also meet a great group of people. They also run talks and host interesting groups. If you're in Lewes, they have a building offering workspace and co-working on Western Road
OffiCreche is a co-working space with flexible childcare on-site. This is a fantastic idea and it's run by very friendly people, so if you have a small child and need to get work done, give them a try.
The Brighton Media Centre has three buildings in central Brighton with various sizes of office for sharing. Several Farm members have been in the BMC, sometimes sub-letting from companies who have an entire suite.
The Chamber Rooms is a co-working space for Brighton Chamber of Commerce members, near the town hall in Hove.
Farm member Nathan Pope has two sets of desk space in Kemptown, which is very well suited to freelancers on that side of the city.
Dimple's Desks provides desk space on flexible terms for freelancers. They're based in the Fiveways area of Brighton.
Local Networking Groups
Wired Sussex have an excellent events calendar which you should find useful if you're looking for local meetings.
Brighton Farm for new media freelancers, find out more about us all over this site.
Sussex Big Fish for general business networking (may be dead, they seem to have stopped updating.)
Likemind Brighton (Facebook) for general interesting-people networking, once a month.
Niche Local Groups
dotBrighton (was Flash Brighton) is for 'The best of digital creativity in Brighton' and meet alternate Wednesdays.
£5 App hold meet ups once a month with talks by people who've built up businesses and web apps, and those who've made interesting projects for fun. If you're interested in making thing or becoming a startup, these are good events to go to.
Brighton iPhone Creators for people making apps and sites for the iPhone and iPad.
Async run talks and meetings about using JavaScript & the latest HTML elements in your sites and apps.