32-40 Tontine Street has had lives. The building spent years as Pipers, one of Folkestone's best-remembered nightclubs, before the town's Creative Quarter grew up around it and the dance floors became floors of desks.
The Workshop kept the character: high ceilings, odd corners, a rooftop, and yes, a slide. What changed is what the building does for the town. Instead of one good night out, it now hosts 17+ companies and 216 members, from one-person freelancers to household names.
We're independent: not a franchise, not a chain, no head office somewhere else. The people who run it are at the front desk, and when members ask for something, the answer comes the same day, from someone whose name they know.
The street itself is a story
Tontine Street is named after one of history's strangest investment schemes, and the building stands minutes from where William Harvey was born and where a Kentish princess rests. We wrote it all up.
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