Co-working and business events at Santander Work Café, Leeds

Santander Work Café Leeds offers state of the art banking facilities, free co-working spaces, free bookable meeting rooms and innovation in the relaxed atmosphere of a high quality cafe. Welcoming both Santander and non-Santander customers, the Work Cafe is open between 9:00-16:30 Monday to Friday with banking specialists also on site to help customers with their personal and business banking needs. There are also free Work Café talks and events to support the local Leeds community. 

Work Café aims to provide a productive and creative atmosphere to allow businesses to prosper, and to encourage the growth of a collaborative business community in Leeds. At Work Café you can book a room to hold meetings and share ideas with colleagues and clients or to work in a new environment. 

Our in-person events give business owners and presenters a chance to introduce their content, share tips, guidance and experience to give back to the Leeds community. It also lets business owners showcase their business or client services, build new relationships and create new business connections. In April 2022 at the ‘Strategy Fundamentals: How to Build an Effective Strategy’ event, facilitator Chris Mitchell delivered an informative and practical taster session that aimed to uncover the true meaning of strategy, helping individuals or businesses to understand their real challenges and how to tackle them. 

In 2019 and 2020, events and presentations included the below events:

• Sell more in 2020.
• How to get good at presenting.
• Marketing on a shoestring: how to make an impact on your city.
• Start-Up, Scale-Up, Stay-Up. 
• An all-day programme of talks and workshops designed to inspire, inform and empower for International Women’s Day 2020, the last event before lockdown. 
• A series of micro well-being events.  

How can co-working help your business?

Work Café allowed creative consultancy Jensen & Jensen to have an open, creative space that reflects the nature of their business. Brothers and co-founders of Jensen & Jensen, Myles and Bradley, told us that:

They feel their identity as a black-owned business is key to improving the lack of representation of ethnic agency owners within the industry, and the Work Café events space gives them the opportunity to build their network while encouraging other ethnic entrepreneurs to connect.”

Creative communications studio and ‘Happiness Atleier’ Buttercrumble was a regular user of Work Café before lockdown in 2020 and have since returned for what they describe as “a delightful change of scenery”. Buttercrumble share the Work Café ethos, supporting their local network during the pandemic by providing free resources to aid businesses with their branding and marketing activities, and contributed to International Women’s Day events in 2020. Since their return they’ve appreciated how much “the hubbub of activity, with the flow of entrepreneurs, is inspiring. The space provides a neutral ground for us to express ourselves freely with our clients and associates.”

For more information on future Work Café events, you can follow their Eventbrite page.

If you’d like to book a free meeting room or co-working space visit the Work Cafe website.

Work Café events are free to attend, and free to host in the space. Work Cafe welcomes interest and enquiries from anyone with an idea for a talk, workshop or event and encourage interested parties to reach out to the Work Café Manager Rachel Sellars to talk about using the event space in Work Café for their next event.