What Your First Trial Day Actually Looks Like

The lounge at Pershore Coworking

Before booking a trial day, some people ask what it’s actually like. Fair question. Here’s the honest answer.

Pershore Coworking is still new. It opened this month, and the membership is small so far, growing but small. Depending on the day, you might find one other person in, or six, or the place mostly to yourself. If you’re picturing a packed open-plan office humming with forty people, that’s not what you’ll get right now. Or ever. We’re a small, comfortable coworking space, and that’s the plan.

What you will get is a proper desk, decent wifi, a kitchen with a kettle and enough space to actually make lunch, and a room to sit in that isn’t your house. On a quiet day, that’s not really a downside. Nobody’s talking loudly two desks over. Nobody’s booked the meeting room before you got the chance. You get the full run of the place, more or less, for the same £10.

A trial day works like this. You get in touch, pick a day that suits, and turn up any time between nine and five. There’s no sign-up process beyond that, no forms to fill in when you arrive, just a desk and a “morning” from whoever else happens to be around. Bring a laptop and whatever you’re working on. We’ll show you around and get you connected to the wifi, and after that, the day’s yours.

It’s fair to say this will look different in a year, hopefully busier, hopefully with more of the low-level energy that comes from a room full of people getting on with their own thing. Right now, what’s on offer is quiet, focus, and a proper place to work for a day, without pretending it’s something it isn’t yet.

If that sounds like what you need, even just for a day, now’s a good time to try it. For the rest of August we’re running unlimited trial days instead of the usual one per person, still £10 a day, and if you join afterwards, whatever you’ve spent on trial days comes off your first month.