⚡ The Exchange
Projects find people. Skills find projects. Post what you're building, what you have, or what you'll swap.
Building a local food waste app connecting restaurants with food banks
Partnering with two Eastbourne restaurants already — need help turning this into a real product. Looking for someone to own the tech side and someone who can help with comms/marketing. Equity possible for the right people.
Graphic designer — 8 years in branding, available for short projects
Work across brand identity, print, and digital. Strong in Figma and Adobe suite. Particularly enjoy early-stage startups and social enterprises where the brief isn't fully formed yet. Day rate or project fee, negotiable for the right work.
I'll do your brand identity — looking for someone to build me a simple website
Freelance brand designer. I can do logo, colours, typography, and brand guidelines to a professional standard. In return I need a clean portfolio site — nothing complex, just well-built and fast. Happy to go back and forth until both sides are happy.
Documentary film about post-industrial towns in East Sussex — need crew
Short documentary (20 min) exploring how AI and automation are changing work in coastal towns. Self-funded to start. Looking for a cinematographer and someone who can handle sound. Can offer a director credit and festival cut.
Redundant operations manager — 15 years logistics, looking for my next thing
Been running warehouse operations for a national retailer. Know how to make complex things run smoothly. Open to interim ops roles, consulting, or something completely different if the problem is interesting enough. Eastbourne-based but remote-ready.
Turning my furniture restoration workshop into an online course
20 years restoring Victorian and Edwardian pieces. Want to package it up as a proper online course — video, written content, community. Need help with the production side and someone to make it look professional.
Legal basics for your business — swap for bookkeeping help
Solicitor (non-practising) with commercial background. Can review contracts, terms of service, basic employment stuff. Hopeless at keeping my own accounts in order. Looking for a bookkeeper or accountant who'd rather have legal peace of mind than pay my hourly rate.
Data analyst, available from May — Python, SQL, Tableau
Currently finishing a contract. Strong in turning messy data into clear decisions. Worked in healthcare and e-commerce. Comfortable presenting to non-technical stakeholders. Looking for 3–6 month engagement, remote preferred.
Photography for your project — swap for music production or video editing
Event and portrait photographer based in Brighton. Looking to build out a short film reel and need music or editing support. If you make music or can edit video and need a photographer for something — let's talk.
Open-source mental health check-in tool for remote teams
Simple anonymous weekly pulse tool — not a surveillance product, genuinely just "how is the team actually feeling?" Built in public. Need a backend dev and someone with UX/product experience to keep it honest.
Plumber and heating engineer — domestic and light commercial, Sussex
12 years working across East Sussex. Gas Safe registered. Good at explaining things clearly to clients (which apparently isn't as common as it should be). Looking for direct client work — tired of working through agencies.
Community podcast on social mobility and the future of work — UK focus
Already have 3 episodes recorded, modest but growing audience. Looking for a co-host with a different background to mine (I'm ex-finance), and someone who can handle the production and editing.