---
title: 888 Co-operative Causeway
type: cooperative
status: active
country: AU
website: https://www.888causeway.coop
logo: /assets/org-logos/888-cooperative-causeway.png
contact:
  checked: 2026-07-24
  email: coopcauseway@gmail.com
  source: https://www.888causeway.coop/contact/
summary: Victoria's first registered co-operative co-working space, based in Melbourne
  CBD, providing affordable member-run workspace for social economy organisations
  alongside a podcast and events network focused on cooperative and mutual enterprise.
concepts:
- cooperative
- employee-ownership-trusts
- worker-cooperatives
- economic-democracy
location:
  latitude: -37.8156
  longitude: 144.9648
  name: Melbourne, Australia
rss_feed: https://www.888causeway.coop/feed
related_orgs:
- cooperative-bonds
events:
- date: '2018-01-01'
  title: Formed as Victoria's first registered co-operative co-working space
  url: https://bonds.coop/about-us/our-story/
  quote: 888 Co-operative Causeway—Victoria’s first registered co-operative co-working
    space
  note: Quote from sister co-op Co-operative Bonds' own site; 888 Causeway's own About
    page confirms the 2018 founding but not the "Victoria's first" claim specifically.
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-12'
  notable: true
activity:
  manual:
    checked: 2026-06-07
    date: 2026-06-07
    note: directly known to be operating by a dod person
  rss:
    checked: 2026-08-17
    date: 2019-06-26
    note: 'Latest post: Corner and connect'
    url: https://www.888causeway.coop/corner-and-connect/
last_checked: '2026-06-28'
---

888 Co-operative Causeway is a not-for-profit member-run co-working space at Level 5, 306 Little Collins Street, Melbourne — the first registered co-operative co-working space in Victoria, founded in 2018. It describes itself as "a network of micro-organisations and freelancers active in the social economy."

Antony McMullen (who presented at a [2020 Designing Open Democracy podcast](../blog/posts/2020-06-20-podcast.md) on economic democracy) chairs the organisation.

## What it offers

**Workspace:** Hot desks, permanent desks, and private offices for social economy workers — co-operatives, not-for-profits, social enterprises, and freelancers. Membership includes access to the Kelvin Club (a Melbourne members' club) and reciprocal access to Good Vibes Co-working in Sydney (Australia's other co-operative co-working space).

**Podcast — The Co-operative Way:** A regular podcast covering cooperative and mutual enterprise in Australia and internationally, featuring interviews with seasoned and emerging co-operators. Available via Patreon or with cooperative membership.

**Events:** Regular programming on social and solidarity economy topics, building a practitioner network across Victoria.

## Co-op Incubator (2018–2020)

McMullen also co-founded the **Co-op Incubator** (incubator.coop) in 2017, an online cooperative startup accelerator with a four-stage FOFO framework (Forming, Organising, Funding, Operating). It collaborated with The New School (New York) and Mondragon University on a Platform Co-op Now Accelerator. The incubator wound down in 2020.

## Links

- Website: [888causeway.coop](https://www.888causeway.coop)
- Podcast: [The Co-operative Way](https://www.888causeway.coop/podcast/)
- Fediverse: [@888coop@social.coop](https://social.coop/@888coop)
- Related: [Co-operative Bonds](cooperative-bonds.md)

## See also

- [Cooperative](../concepts/cooperative.md)
- [Worker Cooperatives](../concepts/worker-cooperatives.md)
- [Economic Democracy](../concepts/economic-democracy.md)
- [Co-operative Bonds](cooperative-bonds.md)
- [Basil's Table: Banking On The Future In A Climate Of Change](../../blog/posts/2020-02-20-podcast.md) — DOD podcast with 888 Co-operative Causeway, 2020
- [Basil's Table: Building Co-operative Futures in the Tech Bros Era](../../blog/posts/2023-01-21-podcast.md) — the final Basil's Table panel, December 2022: cooperative futures, the billionaire problem, AI vs collective intelligence