Sustainable Business Partnership CIC – are looking for funding to run a pilot project for a co-working space for two days a week over the winter in the under-utilised Community Pavilion in Kingston. This will be aimed at home workers based in the village, so that they can switch off their heating at home during the day and come together in a warm space. The Pavilion is a highly sustainable super insulated building run on renewable energy and heated using a modern Air Source Heat Pump with greywater recycling and a remarkable green roof.

The space will also be available to older residents and anyone in the village struggling to keep their homes warm given the high cost of energy. They will be able to come and use the space for quiet activities and will be encouraged to leave their cars at home and walk or cycle to the building where they can.

If the project is successful and attracts lots of interest from people wanting to work in a warm space, it would hopefully become financially self-sustaining in the future based on using donations to hire the building, and perhaps could be rolled out to other community buildings in the Ouse Valley.