Recommendations: • TTSN website as a contact point for Stokey home-based workers. • Possibility of creating a regular social specific event for Home-based workers, to provide a social network and support system. • Possibility of creating a list of local home-based occupations. • A group could take a position on changing tenancy agreements so people in Social Housing can legitimately work from home. • Possibility of setting up an Advice Surgery for both existing home- based workers and people thinking about doing it in the future. • There is an opportunity for TTSN building group to help on the buildings front for Home-based workers regarding energy efficiency. Main points of discussion: • The idea of dwelling as workplace, and workplace as dwelling. Increasing number of people doing both, but hidden workforce. • Possibility of mapping a network of home-based workers. • Could learn from other existing networks like “Just for the love of it” and the LETTS system. • Possibilities for using café and libraries with guilt free, open access to the internet. • Need to counter the social isolation that can come with home-based work. • A need to ‘Open conversations’ with local businesses/ people. • Valuing home-based workers. • A way of making contact across diverse groups eg. Games days in Gillett square. • Economic benefit of starting/ running businesses from home. • Social housing tenancy agreements often don’t allow businesses to run from home. • Business advice can be difficult to find. • Home-based work can be confidence building. • Need to identify space with resources to support home-based workers. • Need to re-think what a library is/ could be and identify under used local community facilities. • Social and economic advantages of being self employed/ home-based worker and localising your work. • Broad range of job opportunities that can be pursued at home eg. Cooking, bed and breakfast, IT based work, design, social enterprises, Growing veg, evening meals, etc. • Being able to see ourselves as being part of a really big network of home-based workers. • Issues about online mapping – public security • A stokey home-based workers group could be like a mother and baby group structure. • It could be a community group that offers a support system and also a way of networking and finding job opportunities. • Home-based work reducing commuting and therefore reduces carbon emissions and takes pressure of transport infrastructure.