Events Archives - Happy Hubbub

Hubbub creates mentoring program for female business owners Mon 01 Jul, 2019
The six-week program, “Scaling Up Sensibly: Financial Mentoring for Female Founders”, kicks off on Monday 1 July and was made possible by a grant from LaunchVic, plus in-kind contributions by Happy Hubbub and The HQ Hub. Five female founders – of startups and businesses with ‘scale-up’ potential – have been selected to take part in the […]
The Plebiscite Thu 24 Aug, 2017
Last year I was driving with my boys, 6 and 4, in the car, and the 4yo piped up with, ‘Did you know, Mama, that not all adults are married?’ He’d discovered this amazing fact that day.’That’s true,’ I said. ‘Not everyone is married.’We then listed different people we knew who weren’t married – some […]
Long daycare & the CCR Fri 23 Sep, 2016
Big news! Happy Hubbub will be offering long daycare and half-day care, starting 30 January 2017!Happy Hubbub is Australia’s first coworking space with on-site, licensed childcare. As with any new business, we have been learning along the way, what is working and what isn’t, what our members want and don’t want. In the past eight months, the […]
Free Coworking in Darebin! Thu 04 Aug, 2016
Three Darebin work hubs are offering free coworking on Friday 12 August to celebrate International Coworking Day. CoBrew, Nest Coworking and Happy Hubbub – each space with its own distinct personality – are throwing open their doors and encouraging Darebiners to ‘find their tribe’.CoBrew CoBrew, a cavernous space in the industrial heart of Thornbury, sits above 3 […]
Six-week update Fri 11 Mar, 2016
At Happy Hubbub, a lot of things about the business are in their infancy (not just the children). But, six weeks in, I feel I’ve glimpsed the future. A future where: • no one questions a parent’s ability to be professional • no one looks up from their desk disapprovingly when a coworker arrives after […]
Could the changes to Paid Parental Leave lead to better outcomes for women? Sun 13 Dec, 2015
I’ve been contemplating the government’s proposed changes to paid parental leave (PPL), primarily because I will soon be an employer, but also because Happy Hubbub exists (well, will very soon exist) to support working women and women in business. Let’s assume the Fairer Paid Parental Leave Bill 2015 passes into law.* What then?Annabel Crabb noted […]
Local Mums Bring Coworking with Childcare to Preston Tue 10 Nov, 2015
Exciting new childcare option for work-from-home parents!(Press release: November 2015)Two Preston mums are bringing Melbourne’s first dedicated coworking-with-childcare space to the City of Darebin. Happy Hubbub, opening in central Preston in early 2016, will be a shared office space with open-plan hotdesking, meeting rooms, private offices for half-day hire and, crucially, an on-site short day […]
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Sat 29 Aug, 2015
The Good NewsHappy Hubbub is the recipient of this month’s $1000 grant from the Awesome Foundation! Why? Because they think the idea of coworking with childcare is, you guessed it, pretty awesome! We are so thrilled and we’ll be using the money to produce the video for our membership drive campaign, which we’ll launch in […]
Coworking with childcare: the next big thing? Mon 06 Jul, 2015
Above: Me and my boys, circa 2012Back in 2012 when I first had the idea for a coworking space with on-site childcare, I couldn’t find anything of its kind in Australia. Internet searches yielded a couple of overseas results (NextKids in San Francisco and Third Door in London) but zero for Melbourne… zilch in Sydney… […]

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