{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Coworking Values Podcast","title":"When a Community Finds Its Coworking Space with Lee Dalgleish","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1919,"description":"“We’re keeping people in Wigan, both in jobs, both in supply chain, young people not jumping on the train any longer to go in 30 minutes down the train track to Manchester or Liverpool. You don’t need to go outside of Wigan now. You can do everything in here.”Lee Dalgleish\nTired of running yourself into the ground?\nThen stop running alone.\n*On February 24th, the London Coworking Assembly presents Unreasonable Connection Goes Live!—a one-day working session for the people running London’s most vital neighbourhood spaces and the public sector allies working to help them thrive.*\nIt’s a day to share the load, find real solutions, and build a new playbook, together.\nLee Dalgleish fixes problems.\nNot the tidy, admin problems.\nThe ones where young people leave town because there’s nothing for them.\nWhere historic buildings rot because nobody knows how to bring them back.\nWhere talent drains to bigger cities because local economies can’t retain it.\nHe’s the Commercial Property Manager at The Heaton Group in Wigan.\nBut that title doesn’t capture what he actually does.\nThe Heaton Group bought Eckersley Mills in October 2021. Three massive mills from the late 1800s, right in the centre of Wigan, sitting between Manchester and Liverpool.\nThe sort of place most people write off as too expensive, too complicated, too far gone.\nThey renamed it Cotton Works.\nThen they started building something nobody expected.\nThree Mills Pub opened in May 2024.\nFour and a half thousand square feet with original slab stone flooring. The sort of character you can’t fake.\nLee’s daughter manages it now.\nFeast at the Mills followed in October 2023.\nAn outdoor food hall in the old weaving sheds. DJs, street food, families, dog walkers, and bottomless brunches.\nOver 2,000 people show up every weekend in summer.\nBut here’s what matters.\nCotton Works isn’t just hospitality. It’s a regeneration project built to stop the brain drain.\nWigan Youth Zone sits at 35,000 square feet. The largest youth...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/WIBJeL0fXbpb8oNZHEtSu5qeC3870OdCYV3XNCIVY1M/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yZTBm/NGQ1N2YzYTcyNmE3/NTc2ZmU5NTBlYmNj/OTEwOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}