UK: Coliving brand Folk has partnered with ARC Club to offer workspace facilities within Folk’s first coliving building and give Folk’s residents access to ARC Club’s spaces across London.
ARC’s takeover of the workspace at The Palm House in Harrow will see it introduce a number of professionalised amenities including second screens and state-of-the-art printing, as well as community programming and award-nominated interior design.
The partnership also means that Folk’s tenants have access to ARC Club’s growing network of London neighbourhood workspaces, currently in Camberwell and Homerton, which offer full office functionality in a design-led interior. Folk and ARC will also offer a limited number of flexible memberships to local residents living near The Palm House.
Paul Naylor, regional operations lead at Folk, said: “At Folk we’re always looking for ways to innovate and improve the resident experience and having access to a high spec co-working facility is a huge part of our offering. Our spaces are designed to give flexibility and comfort for residents to work from wherever they need to but in somewhere that’s separate from their bedroom! We’re excited to partner with Arc Club to bring this unique offer of co-working membership within residents’ all-inclusive bill, and not only at The Palm House but at more ARC Clubs across the capital. We’re also looking forward to welcoming members of the local community into our space to co-work, making them even bigger hubs of diversity, creativity and collaboration – something Folk thrives on!”
Hannah Philip, co-founder at ARC Club, added:“We believe that having places to convene in our local neighbourhoods is vital for physical and social wellbeing. We are social animals! As such, we are delighted to be partnering with Folk and adding productive, design-led workspaces to their co-living portfolio. With this partnership, ARC will increase its network to five flexible workspaces dispersed across London and access to all of them will be included in ARC Membership, which is free to all Folk residents. The introduction of an ARC Club at The Palm House will also increase the amount of shared space that is available to the wider residential area and enhance the positive local impact of each building. ARC is committed to transforming how we live, work and thrive together in our local neighbourhoods.”
Folk will launch its second site, Sunday Mills, in Earlsfield in November, and its third in Battersea in early 2023.
