Innovation

One Roof is a female-centric co-working space dedicated to female entrepreneurs. With 1,000 square meters of space and beautiful modernist furniture, it is home to more than 80 startups and small businesses.

One Roof is not just a space for females to work; it is the home for passionate, hard-working women-led businesses. One Roof provides extensive business support to ensure that they have everything they need to be successful and for their business to grow.

One Roof also provides a holistic entrepreneurship support program dedicated to female entrepreneurs who are in the early stages of their startups. This helps them to accelerate the growth of their businesses as well as giving them access to a fast-growing community of female entrepreneurs.

Inspiration

In modern society, awareness of gender equality is significantly increasing, revealing that women's participation in business would benefit the drive of economic growth and development in society. Often, women are underestimated in terms of how poised for success they are in leadership roles.

As Haylet Hewitt said, One Roof is "taking [down] the barriers to resist women in businesses."

Women are generally nurturing, which make them good listeners while inspiring others to succeed. This attribute is one of the crucial aspects of leadership, as it is imperative to help the people around you to develop their own abilities and strengths.

Overall impact

One Roof's main drive is to create a nurturing and inspiring co-working space committed to women-led businesses (businesses with a female founder, cofounder, or CEO or a strong focus on gender equality). The company continues to provide support and encourages innovation within its community, making an impact on the startup ecosystem, especially for women-led businesses.

One Roof gave access to female entrepreneurs to work on their businesses, exchange ideas, and, more importantly, get to know others to work on a better future.

Most of the women-led businesses at One Roof are working endlessly to build a sustainable business and provide value to society. They are expecting not just a financial return on their work, but also a social impact, addressing UN Sustainable Development Goals such as Goal 4, Quality Education; Goal 5, Gender Equality; and Goal 11, Sustainable Cities and Communities.

Business benefit

Because of One Roof, more than 80 startups and small businesses have gained access to the world of women entrepreneurs. They can help each other to improve their business growth and, more importantly, raise awareness of gender equality in society.

Amateur women entrepreneurs can improve their skills by joining One Roof so that they can gain insight and inspiring ideas for their businesses to grow.

Social and environmental benefit

One Roof's innovation benefits the society as a whole by creating co-working space to gather female entrepreneurs and create sustainable jobs.

Interview

Hayley Hewitt, Community & Operations Manager