So the initial idea just before the pandemic was to open up our big old detailing unit to petrolheads every saturday morning for a cars and coffee style meet up. At the time there wasn't really much of a plan of how we would action this but the idea was there. Then the pandemic hit and we had to shut up shop on the detailing front. Now we could either sit at home with the rest of the world or use the time to formulate a plan and strategy of what would later become UN1T 7.

So we did the latter and work began on transforming the UN1T from a clinical detailing studio into a multipurpose workshop which would still detail but also serve coffee on the weekends to new and existing customers. Both sides to the business would be visually very different and still to this day its a massive talking point. From day 1 it was always important as a family business to treat every person who came through the door for a coffee with good service and a friendly face. This was the start of our journey into community and mental health & wellbeing through good old old social interactions (which is something severely lacking with the mobile phone generation).

Skip forward a year of opening/closing with the pandemic restrictions and it was hard to guage how people were reacting to the concept. It looked good but we could never tell if it was just a bit of a curiosity phase and would die down. Never did we imagine how amazingly people would really support the UN1T and everything we were doing. It quickly became apparent we were building a community around coffee, bikes, cars and most importantly talking which was awesome.