Military Coworking Network Evaluation Interim Report by the Charity Spark

As a part of our award from the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust, the Charity Spark were commissioned to carry out an impact evaluation of us, particularly focusing on the elements and activities funded by a continuation grant from the Armed Forces Families Fund’s Supporting Partners Programme. This grant funded us up to the end of March 2026, and the report we've linked to below was written in June 2025.

If you remember us asking you to fill out surveys for the Charity Spark, this is what they were for, to help evidence the work that we're doing to support the military community and prove to the MOD that we need to be made a permanent part of the families offer for serving personnel.

Obviously it's going well, as evidenced by our additional 10 months of funding from the AFCFT that was recently awarded, but here are a couple of our favourite quotes from members if you're simply too busy to read the entire report:

What will say is I put into my business case the fact that the co working Hub was a place where I could go and work in an office environment and still get that interaction with other people that were working and studying. And you’ve got the guarantee that there’s going to be a proper setup in terms of your workspace, yeah, and, of course, Wi Fi connection. So I would actually say just that because the Hub exists, it strengthened my business case to work remotely. - Hub Member

It’s a tangible thing the MOD are doing to support wives and spouses generally. They talk a big talk about supporting families, and, you know, it not just being about the serving person. And this is, this is one way in which I feel they do actually do that. And I don’t have a huge number of those. - Hub Member

You can read the whole report here, and please do keep filling in surveys when we ask you to do them, we hugely appreciate it and all of your support!