from £10 / day · closing December 2026
Engine Shed is an incubator in Temple Meads, Bristol. It starts at £10 a day, or £150 a month for up to three named users. Tech founders who want business support, advisers and a lounge to work from by the day rather than a desk to sign for.
The city's front door for tech innovation, in Brunel's original terminus building inside Temple Meads station — a members' lounge, eighteen offices, five meeting rooms and a decade of Bristol's startup story. It is also in its last months: the building closes in December 2026 and the team moves on to run the Bristol Innovations Zone at the Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus.
Engine Shed closes in December 2026. The team transitions to the Bristol Innovations Zone in the new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus building, opening September 2026, reachable by a new entrance two minutes from Platform 15. No transition terms for existing members or office tenants are published — worth asking before you commit.
Membership includes free use of the Members' Lounge plus two guests, 25% off meeting and event hire, 10% off the lounge café, free adviser surgeries and workshops, and a free mailbox and registered address. Meeting and event hire rates are not published.
From Engine Shed's own published rates, checked 17 August 2026 — a guide, not a quote. Confirm with them directly.
Station Approach, Temple Meads · BS1 6QH
Inside Bristol Temple Meads station itself, in the original Brunel terminus building. They publish no bus, parking or cycle detail — but you are standing at the station.
Only what Engine Shed states on their own site. Something missing here may still exist — ask them.
Tech founders who want business support, advisers and a lounge to work from by the day rather than a desk to sign for.
Anyone planning where to work next year. It closes in December 2026, and the successor space at Temple Quarter carries a WECA funding condition that occupants be connected to growing the regional deep tech economy — so it is not a like-for-like replacement for a general founder membership.
A single day at Engine Shed starts at £10, bought without a membership. From Engine Shed's own published rates, checked 17 August 2026 — a guide, not a quote. Confirm with them directly.
Monthly rates start at £150 a month for up to three named users. CONNECT membership: £150 a month for up to 3 named users, £250 for up to 10. Membership includes free use of the Members' Lounge plus two guests, 25% off meeting and event hire, 10% off the lounge café, free adviser surgeries and workshops, and a free mailbox and registered address. Meeting and event hire rates are not published. From Engine Shed's own published rates, checked 17 August 2026 — a guide, not a quote. Confirm with them directly.
Yes. Five meeting rooms and four event spaces, with 25% off for members. Hire rates are not published — they ask you to get in touch.
No. Their published access is: Members' Lounge 9am–5.30pm Monday to Thursday, 9am–5pm Friday. It suits a working-hours routine rather than late nights and weekends.
This page is read by Bristol founders looking for a desk, and everything on it comes from your own site — checked 17 August 2026. The listing costs nothing while we launch. If a rate has changed, or we have missed a tier or got a detail wrong, tell us and we will put it right.
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