Solo & Co - The Subi Collective
A$2,255
of $10,000 targetyrs ago
Closed on 17th Aug 2015 at 2:33AM.
Definition of ‘Solo’ - ‘alone; without other people’
Definition of ‘and co’ informally means ‘and other people’
Solo & Co – the Subi Collective
Our plan is to create a collective space for entrepreneurs, creatives, emerging businesses and lovers of unique furniture and great coffee and food.
It will be an evolving space where intrepid entrepreneurs can work, inspire and eat together. A place where local office workers can grab a great lunch and a fresh juice without breaking the bank. A venue where people can host a corporate sundowner. A place where Subiaco locals can enjoy that perfect coffee, or browse through the homewares and furniture for sale. We envisage every nook and cranny of this joint to be heaving with energy, new ideas and emerging business ventures.
So what exactly do we plan for the collective?
A furniture store – well this is already up and running. Solo & Co furniture store opened its doors late last year and has been creating ripples in interior design circles since. Furniture has been sourced from Central Java and further afar and the store houses some beautifully unique pieces.
A café – we want to open a café unlike anything that has been seen before. No more premade rolls, limp wraps and plastic pastries. This café will specialise in freshly prepared, vibrant salads, homemade dressings, delicious roast meats, wholesome juices and home baking at its best. But we’re saving the best for last – the coffee will be spectacular. Bold statement? Yep, but we’re 100% confident on this one. How do we know this? Well that’s the next stage in our plans….
In house coffee roaster – yes Subiaco will finally have its very own fresh roasted coffee! Woo hoo! We’ve been chatting to two very exciting entrepreneurs who are about to embark on their first foray into roasting coffee (although these guys have been working in the industry for many years, there’s nothing they don’t know about coffee). We are so excited to welcome them into the Solo & Co collective. (We can’t tell you all about them just yet, we’ll let them reveal their own awesome plan in a few weeks ;)
Gluten Free Bakery – yeah that’s right! Freshly baked gluten free bread, pizza bases and pastries cooked right here onsite. We have combined forces with an expert baker and we’re planning to build a new bakery at the back of the building dedicated to baking entirely gluten free products (we told you it was exciting!!)
Office hub – So you’re a budding entrepreneur, you’ve got that next brilliant idea. You now need to take the next step in growing that project. That can be lonely and unproductive at home. Why not come to Solo & Co and hire one of our shared workspaces. Surround yourself with like-minded people, share ideas, collaborate, inspire and drink coffee! Not only do we have meeting rooms available to hire, but we’ve also got shared workspaces with free Wi-Fi and printing for the next generation of Richard Branson’s to get started!
Event Space – we can provide a unique event space for hire, complete with full catering options. So whether it’s a corporate sundowner, with cocktails and canapés, a high tea with finger sandwiches and fine china or a footy match with burgers and beer – Solo and Co can offer the space, the staff and the food.
Florist – we have retail space available for a new creative florist to showcase their talent. Bring blooms to Hay Street!
Art Gallery – we created a space for local budding artists to exhibit and sell their collections.
Pop up on Hay Street – like we’ve said before, we want to showcase emerging businesses to the Perth market. What better way for a new retailer to launch to market than having their own retail space on Hay Street. With over 12,000 passers-by every day, this is prime location and no pesky long term leases to worry about!
Commercial Kitchen Hire – starting your own food business is tricky enough. Councils require a food business to work from an approved commercial kitchen and trust us, these are very expensive to build! So what are the alternatives? Wouldn’t it be fabulous to rent a fully equipped kitchen for a few hours a week? Thus allowing you time to test your business’ viability without investing or borrowing large sums of money. We would like to offer this service to budding foodies with a dream. Hire our kitchen for a few hours and create the next product to take over our supermarket shelves.
Look, we could add to this list forever and a day but that’s what is so exciting about Solo & Co! It’s an ever evolving space and will hopefully transform continuously. The more businesses we have involved under the one roof, the busier each of us will be. And that’s where you come in! We need your help to make this vision come to fruition.
Definition of ‘and co’ informally means ‘and other people’
Solo & Co – the Subi Collective
Our plan is to create a collective space for entrepreneurs, creatives, emerging businesses and lovers of unique furniture and great coffee and food.
It will be an evolving space where intrepid entrepreneurs can work, inspire and eat together. A place where local office workers can grab a great lunch and a fresh juice without breaking the bank. A venue where people can host a corporate sundowner. A place where Subiaco locals can enjoy that perfect coffee, or browse through the homewares and furniture for sale. We envisage every nook and cranny of this joint to be heaving with energy, new ideas and emerging business ventures.
So what exactly do we plan for the collective?
A furniture store – well this is already up and running. Solo & Co furniture store opened its doors late last year and has been creating ripples in interior design circles since. Furniture has been sourced from Central Java and further afar and the store houses some beautifully unique pieces.
A café – we want to open a café unlike anything that has been seen before. No more premade rolls, limp wraps and plastic pastries. This café will specialise in freshly prepared, vibrant salads, homemade dressings, delicious roast meats, wholesome juices and home baking at its best. But we’re saving the best for last – the coffee will be spectacular. Bold statement? Yep, but we’re 100% confident on this one. How do we know this? Well that’s the next stage in our plans….
In house coffee roaster – yes Subiaco will finally have its very own fresh roasted coffee! Woo hoo! We’ve been chatting to two very exciting entrepreneurs who are about to embark on their first foray into roasting coffee (although these guys have been working in the industry for many years, there’s nothing they don’t know about coffee). We are so excited to welcome them into the Solo & Co collective. (We can’t tell you all about them just yet, we’ll let them reveal their own awesome plan in a few weeks ;)
Gluten Free Bakery – yeah that’s right! Freshly baked gluten free bread, pizza bases and pastries cooked right here onsite. We have combined forces with an expert baker and we’re planning to build a new bakery at the back of the building dedicated to baking entirely gluten free products (we told you it was exciting!!)
Office hub – So you’re a budding entrepreneur, you’ve got that next brilliant idea. You now need to take the next step in growing that project. That can be lonely and unproductive at home. Why not come to Solo & Co and hire one of our shared workspaces. Surround yourself with like-minded people, share ideas, collaborate, inspire and drink coffee! Not only do we have meeting rooms available to hire, but we’ve also got shared workspaces with free Wi-Fi and printing for the next generation of Richard Branson’s to get started!
Event Space – we can provide a unique event space for hire, complete with full catering options. So whether it’s a corporate sundowner, with cocktails and canapés, a high tea with finger sandwiches and fine china or a footy match with burgers and beer – Solo and Co can offer the space, the staff and the food.
Florist – we have retail space available for a new creative florist to showcase their talent. Bring blooms to Hay Street!
Art Gallery – we created a space for local budding artists to exhibit and sell their collections.
Pop up on Hay Street – like we’ve said before, we want to showcase emerging businesses to the Perth market. What better way for a new retailer to launch to market than having their own retail space on Hay Street. With over 12,000 passers-by every day, this is prime location and no pesky long term leases to worry about!
Commercial Kitchen Hire – starting your own food business is tricky enough. Councils require a food business to work from an approved commercial kitchen and trust us, these are very expensive to build! So what are the alternatives? Wouldn’t it be fabulous to rent a fully equipped kitchen for a few hours a week? Thus allowing you time to test your business’ viability without investing or borrowing large sums of money. We would like to offer this service to budding foodies with a dream. Hire our kitchen for a few hours and create the next product to take over our supermarket shelves.
Look, we could add to this list forever and a day but that’s what is so exciting about Solo & Co! It’s an ever evolving space and will hopefully transform continuously. The more businesses we have involved under the one roof, the busier each of us will be. And that’s where you come in! We need your help to make this vision come to fruition.
About Us
We’re a team of three - brothers Mike and Jeremy Powell and me, Kelley Fergus. We are all very different but combined we like to think we make a great team!
Mike is the ‘ideas man’. He has owned various businesses over the years from pubs to hostels to bakeries. There’s nothing this guy can’t do….except sing and dance perhaps. If you come into Solo & Co and Van Morrison is blaring - Mike is ‘in the house!’ You’ll find him ‘dancing’ somewhere.
Jeremy is the finance and furniture man. His background is in banking and finance having spent many years working in Singapore. Then he decided to return to Perth to start Solo & Co. The furniture store is his baby. He is responsible for sourcing all of our beautiful furniture from Central Java. When he’s not on buying trips, he spends a lot of time cycling ludicrous distances but all for a good cause. He is a regular on the team Fighting Chance Australia, a charitable organisation that exists to enrich the lives of young people with significant disabilities in Sydney.
We don’t know if he can dance.
And last of all, there’s me. I’m the food link in the chain. I’ve run my own catering business for a number of years now. From large corporate events to classic high teas and everything in between.
Prior to starting my own business, I worked in advertising in Dublin and subsequently when I came to live in Perth. I’ve worked on both the media and agency side of the business. So I’ll be the running the café kitchen and I have great plans for it! This is a really exciting adventure we are about to embark on, With your help, I can't wait to see it come to fruition. x
(Yes, of course I can dance!!!.... ;)
Mike is the ‘ideas man’. He has owned various businesses over the years from pubs to hostels to bakeries. There’s nothing this guy can’t do….except sing and dance perhaps. If you come into Solo & Co and Van Morrison is blaring - Mike is ‘in the house!’ You’ll find him ‘dancing’ somewhere.
Jeremy is the finance and furniture man. His background is in banking and finance having spent many years working in Singapore. Then he decided to return to Perth to start Solo & Co. The furniture store is his baby. He is responsible for sourcing all of our beautiful furniture from Central Java. When he’s not on buying trips, he spends a lot of time cycling ludicrous distances but all for a good cause. He is a regular on the team Fighting Chance Australia, a charitable organisation that exists to enrich the lives of young people with significant disabilities in Sydney.
We don’t know if he can dance.
And last of all, there’s me. I’m the food link in the chain. I’ve run my own catering business for a number of years now. From large corporate events to classic high teas and everything in between.
Prior to starting my own business, I worked in advertising in Dublin and subsequently when I came to live in Perth. I’ve worked on both the media and agency side of the business. So I’ll be the running the café kitchen and I have great plans for it! This is a really exciting adventure we are about to embark on, With your help, I can't wait to see it come to fruition. x
(Yes, of course I can dance!!!.... ;)
How The Funds Will Be Used
We’ve secured the venue. We’ve got the furniture store up and running. Our coffee roaster will soon be up and running, so that heady coffee aroma will shortly be wafting through the store.
Next on the list is the café and the bakery and that’s where we need help. Once we’ve got the food and coffee, people will come. And they will eat, drink and be happy!
We need to raise $10,000 to build a working commercial kitchen and café space. We’ve managed to get a lot of the equipment second hand but there is still a long way to go before we are up and running.
We need to do some works to the building to ensure we meet with Council requirements. This will include installing public and staff toilets, building a raised floor for the café and complete plumbing and electrical works. So $10,000 is really the bare minimum we need but it’s a start. Once these are done, we are in business! So how do you get involved? Easy.
We’ve put together a list of awesome rewards and really it’s a win/win for everyone right? You not only get a fantastic reward but you’ll also see the opening of a really exciting café. If we exceed our target, we’ll put the extra funds towards setting the bakery up. But one step at a time right?
Next on the list is the café and the bakery and that’s where we need help. Once we’ve got the food and coffee, people will come. And they will eat, drink and be happy!
We need to raise $10,000 to build a working commercial kitchen and café space. We’ve managed to get a lot of the equipment second hand but there is still a long way to go before we are up and running.
We need to do some works to the building to ensure we meet with Council requirements. This will include installing public and staff toilets, building a raised floor for the café and complete plumbing and electrical works. So $10,000 is really the bare minimum we need but it’s a start. Once these are done, we are in business! So how do you get involved? Easy.
We’ve put together a list of awesome rewards and really it’s a win/win for everyone right? You not only get a fantastic reward but you’ll also see the opening of a really exciting café. If we exceed our target, we’ll put the extra funds towards setting the bakery up. But one step at a time right?
Coffee and cake
We would like to express our gratitude with a large steaming cup of perfect coffee made from freshly roasted beans (can you tell we’re excited about our in-house coffee roaster??). You’ll be one of the first to taste the coffee from this new venture. That coupled with slice of homemade cake from our amazing sweets selection, no mass produced nonsense here. Good wholesome bakes like Nana used to make …(only better).
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Votivo Candle & Coffee
We are very fortunate to be one of the few Australian stockists of the beautiful Votivo candles. Since its inception in 1994, Votivo has built a reputation for its quality fragrances and distinctive packaging. Often featured in Vogue, Grazia and Tatler magazines, this is the ultimate in luxury candles. So if you need to impress someone with a thoughtful gift, this is the one. Oh, and we’ll shout you a coffee too because we’re just that nice.
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$100 Gift Voucher
For this amount you will receive a $100 voucher for Solo & Co. You can use this in the café, bakery, and furniture store or to buy some freshly roasted coffee beans. Umm, bargain or what?!
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Est. delivery is Aug 15
Lunch for two + candles
For this amount, both you and a pal will be treated to a delicious lunch , juice or hot coffee, two kilo bag of house roasted coffee beans each and a Votivo candle to take home each. Come on! This is getting silly…
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Lunch for two + vouchers
For this amount not only will you and a friend be treated to lunch, with juice or coffee, you’ll also take home two kilo bags of coffee beans, a Votivo candle each. And just for the heck of it, you’ll receive a gift voucher for $175 each redeemable in the furniture store, café, bakery or coffee roaster.
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Sundowner, wine & canapes
How about treating your hardworking staff to an evening of wine and delicious canapés? Solo & Co is the perfect venue for a relaxing sundowner. Chill out listening to some cool tunes in the funky surrounds of our store. We’ll look after you all evening to make sure you a well fed and watered. Offer includes wine and canapés for 20 people. Menu supplied on request.
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Pop Up Retail Space
So this one is for the budding entrepreneurs. Have you got a product you are keen to test on the market but don’t aren’t quite ready to start signing a lease? How would you like your very own store right in the heart of Subiaco? For this amount we will give you your very own store for four weeks. With traffic from the furniture store, café, bakery and roaster all walking right past you and 12,000 people driving down Hay Street daily, you’ll be in a great position to launch the next big thing!
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Est. delivery is Sep 15