# Initiative launches to match extra office capacity with charities seeking meeting space

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2024/03/14/initiative-launches-to-match-extra-office-capacity-with-charities-seeking-meeting-space/
- Published: 2024-03-14T09:18:55+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The London Society is launching a matching service for companies in the city that
have extra office capacity and charities that need space for in-person meetings.**

The London Society is calling it FREE SPACE FRIDAYS. [Announcing the initiative](https://www.londonsociety.org.uk/post/free-space-fridays-could-you-offer-meeting-space-charities),
it said that Fridays were one of the most popular days for employees to work from
home in many companies in London, leaving offices “_open and operational, but with
unused capacity and unused meeting rooms_“.

With many charities, social enterprises and community groups lacking a ‘head office’,
it is suggesting that companies put their empty spaces to good use by offering them
for free to nonprofits needing somewhere to hold their formal meetings.

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Anyone with free meeting rooms or space to offer that wishes to participate in FREE
SPACE FRIDAYs, can contact the London Society at [in**@***************rg.uk](https://fundraising.co.uk/2024/03/14/initiative-launches-to-match-extra-office-capacity-with-charities-seeking-meeting-space/in**@***************rg.uk).
The London Society will then aim to match them with a charitable organisation to
discuss their requirements so they can see if they can help.

[A post sharing the opportunity](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7173576136315113472/)
on LinkedIn by its Chair Leanne Tritton has already been liked more than 200 times,
with interest from both sides.

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