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The Place for Better Business 🚀✨ It's been a while since we re-introduced ourselves. At x+why we're on a mission to change the way the world works, for good. Across our 10 sites and 4 cities, members enjoy private offices, coworking, and breakout areas, as well as events programmes, meeting rooms, access to private clubspaces and more. The spaces are designed to be more than places to work. They’re hubs for connecting, collaborating, and learning. As a B Corp Certified organisation, we're committed to pursuing purpose as well as profit and helping others on their journey to do the same. Thank you ITCH for helping us to visualise our mission earlier this year 📽️ Stay tuned for more to come!

Connection, Collaboration, Content. Join Adobe at x+why #100Embankment to connect with fellow marketers, small business owners and solopreneurs! We will be discussing how to develop a strong content strategy that speaks to your audience or customers, while growing an engaged community online. Our panel of experts will leave you with actionable content, marketing and design tips that you can implement right away - RSVP https://lnkd.in/eh4c6nSv If you're based in 📍 Foundry, 📍 Unity Place, 📍 People's Mission Hall or 📍 100 Embankment, do also look out for Content Creation workshops for small businesses with Adobe, starting from next week, RSVP via the members portal.

Amplify with x+why 📣 👏 Recently, 5 brilliant and brave members from across x+why sites joined us at #Fivefields to share their missions, journeys, insights and stories 💭 Here's just a snippet of their awesome conversations. Eyes peeled for more from each interview, coming soon 👀 Many thanks to our contributors: 👉 Nikita Smith, ReachOut 📍Fivefields 👉 Foong N., Matchable Volunteering 📍People's Mission Hall 👉 Aidan Murray, Aila Recruitment | Certified B Corporation® 📍Unity Place 👉 Tanya Stevens, Society: Global Executive Search, 📍The Fulwood 👉 Siwan Davies, Fair Education Alliance 📍Fivefields Huge thanks also go to People's Mission Hall members, Bright/Shift and Jack Hobbs, for helping us record the interviews 🙌

At x+why, we want to be part of a world in which diversity + inclusion are a given. Work spaces have a huge part to play in this making this a reality. The best employers understand that it's vital that all of their employees feel welcome, respected and represented at work. They know that inclusion drives better individual, business and organisational outcomes. Plus, they strongly believe that staff must be able to bring their whole selves to work and be celebrated for their achievements, particularly barriers they've overcome. October is #BlackHistoryMonth, the annual celebration of the history, achievements and contributions of black people in the UK. At x+why, we're taking the following 3 actions to show our support for the movement: 1 - encouraging everyone to educate themselves on the history and importance of #BlackHistoryMonth via the official website - knowledge is power - https://bit.ly/3XXm2q7 2 - asking our members to share their favourite books by black authors so we can order them for the libraries in our sites 3 - hosting a series of incredible events across our sites with esteemed partners such as Foundervine and United By 2022 Charity 4 - letting everyone (you included!) know that you should get in touch with us at x+why if you're looking to host anything relating to #BlackHistoryMonth - we'd love to support you

More #MissionLit Coming soon 📕 👀 Lighting the way to Better Business. Powered by x+why. Last week, we had the pleasure of joining Mission Lit's expert graphic designer, Ben Jeffery, at the Kind Community convention at Toast Brewing's bar, Good Company. It was a pleasure to exhibit amongst a whole host of inspiring companies, designers and entrepreneurs, as we build up to the launch of the next Mission Lit zine - Issue 002 - The Money Issue 💰 Stay tuned for more! www.missionlit.com

We're super excited to announce that we've been nominated in the hashtag #SustainableExcellence category of the Flex and The City awards coming up later this month 🏆 If you're able to take the time to vote for us, if you've enjoyed an x+why experience recently, we'd be hugely grateful. Simply click here: https://lnkd.in/e9rjpEKr Thank you, team Flex and the City, for the nomination. See you there!

At x+why, we’re uniting organisations & leaders that believe business should be a force for good. Working in the impact sector can carry a lot of emotional implications, especially when you feel faced with the realities of the climate crisis, daily. Our members and partners, Force of Nature, started the Climate Cafe, a global community-organised initiative designed to bring young people together to have open conversations about the climate crisis. We’re so excited to be adopting the concept to host a Cafe in partnership with Force Of Nature. To bring our community of changemakers together, to create a space that’s all about #listening, #sharing and #harnessingconnection to support one another with the ultimate aim of evolving the Cafe to offer further support to both of our communities. Reach out to the team to find out more 💬 https://bit.ly/3BrSadT Words by Loux Rutherford, Community Manager, People's Mission Hall

We’re excited to be approaching 1 year since welcoming the first members to Fivefields, our co-working space for charities supporting children and young people, in collaboration between x+why, Westminster Foundation and Grosvenor.   To mark this milestone, we sat down with some of our amazing charities members to hear about their experiences at Fivefields.   It was inspiring to hear first-hand about the impact this space has had and the vibrant community we’ve built together!   Stay tuned for the video coming soon… 🎥   A big shout out to sustainable media production company Velvet Green Media for their creativity and support on this project. 🙌

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We're thrilled to introduce another star member of the x+why team, Ryan Wilson, our General Manager working with the teams across Fivefields, The Fulwood and Chiswick Works. We asked Ryan a few #WhoWhatWhy questions: Ryan, what is your 'Why'❓ My ‘why’ is the pursuit of happiness in small and big ways, much of which comes from making others happy. It aligns with the idea of "paying it forward" and creating a positive ripple effect in the world. Shoutout time 📣 Name a company you think are doing great things OceanSaver, x+why has recently partnered with Ocean Saver, a leading company dedicated to safeguarding our oceans and marine life. With a mission to reduce plastic pollution, Ocean Saver offers a range of eco-friendly cleaning products crafted from plant-based ingredients. 📚 Reading recommendation Mission Lit. The x+why handbook and guide to help build profitable and socially responsible businesses. It emphasises the importance of aligning business goals with a vital mission and enlightens its readers about the "Triple Bottom Line" - people, planet, and profit. https://bit.ly/4ejpVfZ Read Ryan's full interview here: https://bit.ly/4ejDsUY