Coworking near Castlegate, Sheffield: desks and offices from £29/day

Spaces Acero comes in cheaper than Spaces Pennine Five on most workspace types. Its day pass is £29/day against £35/day at Spaces Pennine Five. The business lounge goes the other way: £25/day at Spaces Pennine Five and £29/day at Spaces Acero.

A day office, a private room booked for a single day, is £75/day at Spaces Acero and £85/day at Spaces Pennine Five. A monthly hot desk at Spaces Acero is £229/month, which works out at £8/day, while Spaces Pennine Five charges £239/month. A private office starts at £239/month at Spaces Acero, or £9/day on that plan, and £249/month at Spaces Pennine Five.

Meeting rooms cost £19/h and virtual offices £89/month at both. Across the whole city, Sheffield has twelve open centres, and these two are the ones that publish prices; see Sheffield coworking prices for more.

Spaces Acero sits on 1 Concourse Way, 460 m from the middle of Castlegate. It is 200 m from Sheffield Interchange and 300 m from Sheffield Station, so it is easy to reach whether you come in by bus or by train. It is open 24/7. On site there is barista coffee and a café, along with shared common areas and wheelchair access. Its prices are the lowest of the two Spaces centres for day passes, hot desks and private offices, which makes it the natural base if you want a desk by the station without paying more for it.

Spaces Pennine Five is at Block 2, 1 Tenter Street in Kelham Island, 680 m from the middle of Castlegate. West Street Tram Stop is 200 m away, which suits anyone who uses the Supertram to get across the city. It is open 24/7 and offers meeting rooms and shared common areas. Its business lounge is the cheaper of the two Spaces centres, while its day pass, hot desk and private office cost a little more than at Spaces Acero.

32 Eyre Street, S1 4QZ, lies 1.4 km from the middle of Castlegate and is open 24/7. It has one of the fullest lists of facilities around: showers, a gym, phone booths, bike storage, mail handling and pets allowed, plus a staffed reception, a kitchen, a café on site, a lounge, event space and air conditioning. If you cycle in, train before work or bring a dog, this is the centre that covers all of it under one roof.

Nursery Street, S3 8GG, is 460 m from the middle of Castlegate and open 24/7. It offers IT support, parking and showers, with a staffed reception and telephone answering to handle visitors and calls. Printing, cleaning, event space and air conditioning are there too, and pets are allowed. It suits a small business that drives in and wants someone to look after the front desk and the technical side.

Angel Street is the closest centre to Castlegate, 160 m from its middle. It has a kitchen, a café on site, breakout areas and event space, along with a staffed reception, Wi-Fi, cleaning and air conditioning, and pets are allowed. The kitchen and café mean you can eat without leaving the building, and the event space lets a small business host a workshop or a client evening in the same place it works. It suits anyone who wants a full-service centre with room to step away from the desk.

Penistone Road, S6 3AE, is 1.1 km from the middle of Castlegate, out along one of the main roads north, and open 24/7. It offers parking, event space, printing and scanning, and telephone answering, with a staffed reception and a cleaning service. It suits a business that comes in by car and needs room to host an event or have its calls picked up.

Courtwood is at Courtwood House, S1 2DD, 570 m from the middle of Castlegate, and open 24/7. It offers mail handling, parking, bike storage and wheelchair access, and pets are allowed. A staffed reception, telephone answering, printing, a kitchen with tea and coffee and breakout areas round it out, making it a practical choice if you want post and calls handled while you come and go.

3 Concourse Way, S1 2BJ, is 550 m from the middle of Castlegate and open 24/7. It has breakout areas, parking and bike storage, plus Wi-Fi, meeting rooms and a cleaning service. It suits someone who wants a straightforward desk, can arrive by car or by bike, and needs a room now and then for a meeting without paying for a fuller set of services.

All ten of the ten centres have meeting rooms, so you can book a room for a client or a team discussion wherever you sit. Wi-Fi comes at eight of them, and the same number offer a cleaning service, which keeps desks and shared areas tidy without you arranging it.

A staffed reception is found at six centres, meaning someone greets your visitors and signs for deliveries; telephone answering is offered at six, so calls to your business number are picked up in your name. Printing and scanning is available at five centres, useful for contracts and forms. Event space at five lets you run a workshop or launch, and breakout areas at five give you somewhere to take a break or talk informally away from people working.

If you only need a desk now and then, a day pass is the simplest option: £29/day at Spaces Acero. The business lounge at Spaces Pennine Five, at £25/day, is the other way to drop in for a day.

Regular solo workers are better served by a monthly hot desk, from £229/month at Spaces Acero, which gives you a place to work every month instead of buying passes one at a time. A small team that needs its own lockable room should look at a private office, from £239/month.

For client meetings, rooms are £19/h at either Spaces centre, so you can book one without taking a desk. If you mainly need a Sheffield business address, a virtual office costs £89/month; the virtual offices in Sheffield page covers that in more depth.