The office space is available to anyone working to start a business and provides collaboration, support and encouragement without a significant outlay.

Mortgage broker Jade Freeburn’s business is just weeks old and he balances his time working from home or elsewhere.

“It’s useful to have a desk to meet with clients,” he said

“I can also meet other like-minded people doing the same thing (growing a business).

“Plus it’s a boost to the motivation, you feed off other people’s energy.

“It’s helped with a professional presence when the business is only a couple of weeks old.”

Not every business in Working Spaces HQ is just starting out.

“We had an office down on Fitzmaurice Street but it was quiet and spooky,” web and graphic designer Cristy Houghton said.

“When (Working Spaces HQ) came up, I thought we’ll be a part of a group of creative people.

“Offices can be bitchy but this has been great.

“Working from home is good when you start out, but there’s a lot of distractions and you miss out on networking and (collective) energy.

“Around the water-cooler, an idea can be taken to a new level.”

Founder Simone Eyles said creating Working Spaces HQ meant a business could use an office without massive cost or five-year lease.

“The real success is when people who have come here have to find their own space because they’ve outgrown it,” 365cups and Working Spaces HQ founder Simone Eyles said.

“When we started 365cups, we were working at night after our day jobs. Working from home is really isolating.”

The centrepiece of the office however is an incubator program for technology start-ups.

Called 35 Degrees and set to begin in July, it will offer the environment, space and tools to work everything from web hosting to app design.

She hopes it will help foster 100 new start-ups by 2020.

“My passion is start-ups in regional Australia – 365cups is proof a technology start-up can succeed,” she said.

“The real key is we’re going to have our own in-house tech shop.”

It means fledgling businesses and in future, TAFE and university students, could use the hardware and software in an environment which encourage experimentation and testing.

Member for Riverina Michael McCormack expressed his confidence Working Spaces HQ would make Wagga a “bigger spot” on the map.

“So many more success stories which haven’t been thought of but will happen because of this space,” he said.