NATIONAL
HACKSPACE
TOUR.
A creator-led tour of the UK’s hackspaces — the community workshops where people build, invent and make things that have no business existing. Woodwork to robotics. Circuit boards to ceramics. Everything in between.
THE UK IS
BUILDING
STRANGE,
BRILLIANT
THINGS.
Across the country, in converted warehouses, community halls and industrial units, people are building things. Not for clients. Not for money. Because they have an idea and the tools to try it.
Hackspaces — community workshops open to members — are where maker culture actually lives. Laser cutters next to lathes. Raspberry Pi next to pottery wheels. The person building a CNC router two benches down from the person restoring a vintage synthesiser. The range is extraordinary and almost entirely undocumented.
The National Hackspace Tour changes that. A team of aligned creators, each with a theme focus, tours the UK’s hackspaces and documents what’s being made — producing content that makes the rest of the world realise what’s been happening in these buildings all along.
EVERYTHING
GETS MADE
HERE.
No two hackspaces are the same. Some are broad community workshops where a metalwork bay sits next to a textile area, a 3D printing farm and a wall of vintage computing equipment. Others have developed a distinct specialism over time — deep expertise in a particular discipline, built around the people who turned up and never left. That variation across the UK is part of what makes the tour work — and why multiple theme-aligned creators are the right approach to documenting it.
Woodwork &
Fabrication
Hand tools, power tools, CNC routers, laser cutters. From furniture to functional sculpture — people building physical things with their hands, properly documented for an audience that watches in absolute silence.
Electronics &
Technology
Circuit design, microcontrollers, robotics, custom hardware. The kind of projects that look impossible until someone explains them — and then look even more impossible. Content that genuinely educates and entertains simultaneously.
Everything
Else
Ceramics. Textiles. Metalwork. Printmaking. Vintage restoration. Synthetic biology. The breadth of what happens in hackspaces defies categorisation — which is precisely what makes the format work as a series.
CREATORS.
THEMES.
CONTENT.
Theme-aligned creators — each creator on the tour has a specific discipline focus, ensuring the content goes deep rather than wide on their subject. The breadth comes from the ensemble; the quality comes from the individual alignment.
Location-by-location documentation — each hackspace visit produces a distinct episode. The people, the projects and the space itself are all part of the story. No two locations are the same.
Short and long-form output — full episodes alongside short-form clips, platform-optimised content and photography. The format is built to travel across YouTube, Reels and TikTok without losing quality at any length.
Community integration — the hackspace members themselves are part of the content. The tour documents real people making real things, which is what the maker community actually wants to watch.
Maker content has one of the most loyal and commercially engaged audiences on the internet. The people who watch it buy tools, materials, components and equipment — and they research those purchases carefully, from creators they trust.
The National Hackspace Tour gives brands access to that audience in a context where the content is genuinely aligned with their product. Not adjacent to it. Inside it.
Each theme-focused creator brings their own audience — audiences that already trust their recommendations, already want to know what they’re using and already share what they find compelling. A brand that belongs in the story gets distributed by that trust, not despite it.
THEME BY
THEME.
BRAND BY
BRAND.
The multi-creator, multi-theme structure means multiple non-competing sponsors can exist across the same tour. Each sponsor is aligned to a specific creative discipline — meaning the placement is always natural, never forced.
Title Partner
Full naming rights and presence across the entire tour. The brand most associated with making, tools or creative technology has a headline position that runs across every episode, every creator and every location.
Own Your Discipline
Individual creative themes are available for category-exclusive sponsorship. A woodworking brand owns the woodwork thread. An electronics brand owns the tech thread. The alignment is built into the format rather than imposed on it.
Aligned by Default
Specific creators on the tour are available for dedicated brand partnerships — integrated into their content across the full series, not just a single episode. The creator relationship is the distribution mechanism.
Post-Tour Distribution
Brand presence across all edited output — full episodes, short-form clips, photography. The content outlives the tour and continues generating reach long after the final location is visited.
FOR BRANDS
THAT MAKE
THINGS TOO.
The maker audience is one of the most commercially engaged on the internet. They buy based on what creators recommend. They research before they purchase. And they are deeply, specifically loyal to brands that demonstrate genuine understanding of what they’re making.
Natural fits include tools and workshop equipment, electronics components and hardware, materials and consumables, software and design tools, safety and workwear, STEM education platforms, maker-adjacent lifestyle brands — and any brand whose customer is someone who makes things, fixes things or builds things for the love of it.
Makers Who Buy
High-intent, research-driven purchasing behaviour. The kind of audience that watches a creator use a product and then opens a new tab. Trust-based, not passive.
Genuinely Compelling
Hackspace content works because the subject matter is inherently interesting — and entirely underdocumented. The tour creates a series that people actively seek out rather than scroll past.
Natural, Not Placed
Theme-based sponsorship means the brand belongs in the content by definition. There’s no forcing. The product is relevant because the discipline it sponsors is where it lives.
Multiple Audiences
Each creator brings their own audience to the tour. The combined reach is additive — and each audience is already primed for the content their creator is making.