Niche Coworking Spaces: New Opportunities for Specific Industries in 2025

As demand for coworking continues to grow, niche coworking spaces stand out. Catering to the specific needs of distinct professional communities, these specialised workspaces go beyond just offering a desk and Wi-Fi. In fact, they provide tailored environments, resources, and networks enabling professionals to thrive in their respective fields. This article explores the opportunities these niche coworking spaces offer in various industries in 2025.

Coworking for creatives

Artists, designers, and creative professionals face many challenges in their careers, not least access to finances and opportunities. That’s where coworking spaces for creatives come in – providing artists and designers with the resources, equipment, and community they require to persevere in their creative projects. 

For example, Opo’Lab is the first ‘fab lab,’ or fabricating laboratory in Portugal which although not brand-new, serves a community of designers. It’s “dedicated to thinking and exploring the creative use of new technologies in architecture, engineering, design, and other artistic fields, by promoting research, education, and cultural activities.” Many designers who are developing products, materials, and brands to improve sustainability come to Opo’Lab to find solutions.

But, there are also spaces for artists, like The Handbag Factory in London, which initially opened as a gallery in 1990. Since 2023, the space (managed by an art charity) allows artists to use the workspace or rent gallery space for exhibitions. The Handbag Factory ‘welcomes those who typically may not be able to afford commercial rates for workspaces, such as art charities, non-profit organisations, and community groups.’ 

Coworking for wellness

Combining coworking space with wellness amenities is hugely attractive, according to JLL. However, it doesn’t just work to support coworkers, as these new fitness spaces offer greater opportunities for the growing number of freelance fitness and wellness professionals. In fact, there were 190,000 people working in the UK fitness industry in 2022, from just 131,800 in 2010. Many of these individuals are freelance. 

Take The Ministry (a Nexudus customer) as an example. It offers 150 classes per week from its Borough workspace, ranging from yoga and HIIT, to more specific classes, such as Keiser strength and Peloton. On the other hand, many fitness spaces are doubling as workspace too, inline with popular ‘work from anywhere’ and ‘work near home’ trends. 

But in the wellness world, it’s not just about physical fitness – it’s about mental wellbeing too. For instance, psychologist Paula Madrid, launched New York’s Blue Panda Office Spaces to serve mental health professionals and wellness providers, amongst others, by renting out its private offices. These have been designed specifically for therapists meeting their clients, so they’re not only sensitive in their layout, but their design features imbue calming sensations for patients too.  

Coworking for social impact

Many charities and non-profits are doing amazing work, thanks to the people putting endless amounts of time into hard graft for a particular cause. But, these individuals contracted to projects, including freelancers and volunteers, may not have a specific workplace – especially when they’re only based in a location for a short time or travel for work. 

This is where coworking for social impact comes in – providing access to a network of like-minded people in a professional space makes a difference to their work and their wellbeing. Although The Melting Pot in Edinburgh is proudly one of Europe’s first coworking spaces, it still serves a community of social impact workers twenty years on. Founder, Claire Carpenter, launched the coworking space while working in the charitable sector. She aspired to open a space specifically for people working in social impact, to bring together a network of people who could share and learn from one another, and have fun in the process. 

Claire was largely inspired by Impact Hub – now, a worldwide group of coworking spaces for people working in social impact. Their mission is “to build a just and sustainable world where business and profit serve people and planet.”

Coworking for Podcasters and Musicians

The global podcast industry is booming. Indeed in 2022, it was valued at $18.52 billion. Recognising that many podcasters use coworking spaces too, often as freelancers or when travelling on the go, the flexible workspace sector is accommodating by installing top-of-the-range podcast studios complete with soundproof walls and media equipment in its spaces.

For instance, Edinburgh’s first coworking space for women, Egg & Co, recently opened doors last year in the city centre. It’s complete with a podcast studio available to rent. This high-quality amenity serves not only the podcast community but also drives representation – in 2022, only 29% of US podcast creators were women, with 2% being non-binary. 

Tileyard Studios has a best-in-class recording studio right in the heart of London. It operates under a strong mission to “champion and support independent artists and businesses by providing them with space to work and room to grow.” Their services include workspace, recording studio, and a gallery.

Coworking for Nomads

Although digital nomads aren’t a specific industry, they make up a huge global community. In fact, in 2023 there were 17 million US digital nomads, increasing by an astonishing 131% since 2019. The nomadic lifestyle comes with many ups and downs, making coworking for nomads an attractive niche market. 

Having experienced the lack of a professional workspace while working out of Laos, Chris, the founder of The Desk, in Luang Prabang, launched this independent coworking space to provide a professional workspace for travellers passing through the town or living there. 

Likewise, Coworking Bansko is situated in a place that famously attracts digital nomads from all over, for its outdoor activities. The workspace, along with the annual Bansko Nomad Fest, is the brainchild of Matthias Zeitler. The coworking space is spread across the town in several different locations, ranging from a professional workspace to an outdoor forest – all this gives people so much opportunity to work however they want. To make the experience even better for nomads, a coliving space is launching soon, so people can live, work, and play in the same location, with the same community. 

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