Spaceworks Team

What’s your role at Spaceworks, Matt?
Alongside the board, I’m responsible for the strategic direction of Spaceworks, and for managing and letting the available space. If you’re looking to sell a property that could be ideal for expanding our portfolio, I’d be very interested in talking to you – please contact me here

What background do you bring to the role?
I’ve got over 15 years of experience in the managed property market and joined Spaceworks in 2013. Before this, I led teams and managed commercial properties in England and Wales.

What’s your role at Spaceworks, Leah?
I’m jointly responsible for managing our financial accounts and overseeing our admin processes. My background is in administration management, and I’ve worked for both FE and HE providers.

How long have you been at Spaceworks, Coral?
I’ve worked alongside Leah as Finance & Administration Manager since 2018. My previous experience is primarily in finance, administration and customer services.

Do you have any other roles outside work?
Yes, I’ve been the treasurer for many local organisations, including Umoja Women’s group and Easton Girls Football Club.

Who do you help at Spaceworks, Jacqui?
I’m the first point of contact for customers and visitors at Easton Business Centre, so I look after meeting room bookings, business services,  also incoming, outgoing telephony services and mail services, fundraising and car park duties.  I’ve qualified as a mental health first aider at work.

What causes are you particularly passionate about?
Outside work, I spend time fundraising for several children’s, climate change, homeless and mental health charities.

What is your role at Spaceworks:

My role at Spaceworks involves the daily undertaking of reactive, planned, and statutory maintenance, tests, and checks. I also assist with the organisation and management of larger projects relating to the buildings within the Spaceworks Estate, liaising with and supervising Contractors throughout the duration of the works.

What is your background?

I have worked in the industries of Construction and Facilities Management for roughly the last 15 years. I have training in various elements of Health and Safety and Staff Management, as well as having a wealth of hands-on maintenance experience.

What’s your role at Spaceworks, Steve?
I co-ordinate all the IT, Health & Safety and Maintenance works, and also help out on Reception.

What’s your background in?
My background is primarily in voluntary and festivals work, as well as film production, music and events management. I volunteer at the world famous The Cube Cinema and also run an event called Bluescreen, which promotes the work of local filmmakers.

What’s your role, Yasmin?
I look after the sales and management at Redbrick House, Spaceworks’ coworking space in St Pauls. I also manage Spaceworks’ social media and work with Matt on the company’s marketing and branding.

What are your other interests?
My background is in the Arts and I’ve been able to exhibit my work in numerous galleries around Bristol.

How did you get involved in Spaceworks, Neil?
I was one of the founders of East Bristol Enterprise, which became Bristol Spaceworks in 2010. As part of that original team, I ran community and youth opportunity programmes in East Central Bristol – which highlighted the lack of affordable commercial premises for start-up and local businesses.
I’ve overseen Spaceworks from the early planning stages through funding, construction projections and the merger to its current position of running 7 successful locations in Bristol with ambitions for further growth. I’ve been Chairman for 23 years.

What has the rest of your career looked like?
Away from Spaceworks, I’ve had a varied career in local government in South Gloucestershire, at Liverpool City Council and at a community project in Toxteth.

What’s your role outside Spaceworks, James?
I’m a solicitor and managing partner at Meade King LLP in Bristol and head up their Company and Commercial department. Before that, I spent many years advising the Specsavers Group during the period of its rapid expansion from a small owner-managed business to a multi-national group.

And when you’re able to escape the city?
My wife and I run a 100-acre farm in South Wales breeding pedigree British White cattle and Lleyn sheep.

What’s your connection to Bristol, Michael?
I work for the independent trust, Power to Change, supporting community businesses across England. Before that, I worked for Bristol Energy – an ethical energy supplier owned by Bristol City Council, and was responsible for partnerships strategy and the company’s social good mission on renewable energy, fuel poverty and local communities.
I played a central role in creating the Bristol Pound (now Bristol Pay) and was a founding member of Bristol Local Food Fund.

What do you do, Usman?
I’m a chartered architectural technologist and director at Studio Yaqub based in Bristol, providing architectural and party wall services. I’ve worked on listed buildings projects including The Station, Bristol; Court Mills, Trowbridge; a large extension to Sainsbury’s supermarket, Stroud and multiple high-value construction projects in Vietnam. My main focus now is architecture where I advise clients – from homeowners to large developers – on various aspects of their schemes, providing architectural services from concept to completion.

What’s your role, Nina?
I run Mayler Management Coaching which focuses on improving managers and team leaders to bring out the best in their people. Having worked across 10 different industries including serving as a charity trustee, I particularly enjoy supporting the SME arena.

Having had more than 20 years’ experience of managing teams and a background in retail management and training, I’m able to understand and respond to the challenges facing line managers in today’s business environment.

What’s your background, Peter?
I’m a chartered surveyor and have more than 30 years’ experience of commercial valuation and property development, with particular expertise in licensed, leisure and hotels.
Having dealt with planning departments, structural challenges and development issues – combined with experience running my own businesses – I’m able to offer advice to Spaceworks across a wide spectrum.

How did you join the Spaceworks board, Chris?
I was previously Chief Executive of Spaceworks having joined East Bristol Enterprise as a start-up business advisor in 1999. As CEO I brought the Old Library and the Old Schoolhouse into the portfolio, which meant we substantially increased the number of lettable units available.

What’s your background before Spaceworks?
My roots are in the hospitality industry, and my catering company installed kitchens and bars for companies such as P&O, Railtrack, Hilton and Rocco Forte hotels, MoD, Orange and the Mick Jagger Voodoo Lounge in Leicester Square.