ABSTRACT
SPACE now runs eleven projects-including the Custard Factory in Birmingham-which, altogether, provide workspace, warmth and comfort for about 1,000 small start-up companies. Actually, I’m not sure it’s right to call them companies, because quite a lot of them consist of just one or two people. In fact the total number of people at work under the SPACE umbrella is not much more than 2,000. But even so, I guess that’s quite a lot of jobs for a small private organization to create, especially when you compare it with the sad statistics of the much heralded and highly spun £3.5 billion New Deal and Welfare to Work programmes!
