Suburban Moseley & Downtown Birmingham

THE MOSELEY EXCHANGE, Birmingham UK

• Twitter: @moseleyexchange
• Website: Moseleyexchange.com
• Address: 149-153 Alcester Road, Moseley, Birmingham B13 8J
• Opening hours: 9am-8pm Monday to Thursday; 9am-6pm Friday

About The Moseley Exchange:

• A co-working space and place to meet, work and share ideas.
• Unlimited membership is £85 a month with day-use rates from £10. There are free trial passes or occasional special offers such as the recent Free Fridays.
• Regular events for members to encourage networking/collaboration/sharing. Events include midweek lunch, Friday coffee and cake, and launches for the ever-changing art exhibitions decorating the walls of the space.
• Occasional events have included business advice drop-in sessions and marketing, CRM, blogging and digital engagement workshops.
• Named as one of the 10 best co-working spaces in the UK by Creative Boom online magazine.

Photos: The Moseley Exchange/ Pete Ashton/Flickr

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SHIFT, Birmingham, Alabama* - *has now closed down. Others are starting in the city but not yet established. I’ll list them here as I hear about them.

• Twitter: @shiftworkspace
• Website: Shiftworkspace.com
• Address: 2308 2nd Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35203, US
• Opening hours:  Weekdays 9am-6pm

About SHIFT:

• A boutique consultancy (with people in Austin, Sydney and NYC), the Birmingham Shift Workspace opened in April 2009. Less than a year later, it is/was under threat. (Update: Birmingham’s Shift has now closed).
• Bham’s space seemed to be more corporate/pro-active than Brum’s space. It services included trying to place its freelance members into relevant work projects (mainly those involving social media strategy, web and interactive design, creative strategy, branding and corporate identity, and project management).

Illustration: adapted from Hilary and Anna’s Flickr picture.