What happens when one of the world’s leading hospital foundations builds a workspace? Health Foundry is London’s first dedicated digital health coworking space, and one of the most genuinely mission-driven flexible offices in the capital. Backed by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation, Health Foundry opened on the South Bank in 2016 with a single purpose: to connect the innovators, clinicians, entrepreneurs, and thinkers shaping the future of health.Â
The workspace stays deliberately focused. Hot desks, fixed desks, two combinable meeting rooms, and a main event space keep attention on ideas rather than square footage. Members vote on programming, ensuring the calendar of discussions, expert one-to-ones, and sector events reflects the community’s needs. The charity-backed funding model keeps rates accessible by design. Meeting room bookings subsidise memberships so grassroots organisations and early-stage founders can access the network.Â
For digital health startups, NHS innovators, and health charities, Health Foundry offers what no generic coworking provider can replicate: a sector-specific community where members collaborate within a network that extends across King’s Health Partners, South London’s research universities, and the broader SC1 health innovation cluster. The work here converges around a shared conviction that better health outcomes genuinely matter.Â