Largo wasn’t created to scale. It wasn’t designed for profit. It wasn’t designed as a business. It was built—intentionally—as a place for people. A place for pause, creativity, connection, and care. Something between home and work. What sociologists call a “third place. What Margaret Wheatley calls islands of sanity — a gift of possibility and refuge created by people's commitment to form a healthy community to do meaningful work.

We know that building a space like this in a small town like Peniche — without investors or extractive revenue streams — is difficult. But we will keep pursuing it. Because these spaces should exist. They’re rare and they’re necessary.

Largo has become a home for artists, digital nomads, neighbours, and local organizers. It’s socially sustainable. It has impact. But it’s not financially secure.
And maybe that’s not a failure—maybe it’s the design.

• Prices are kept low to remain accessible
• Space is free to those who needed it
• Community events are hosted for free
• Community, creativity, people are put first

We run Largo with care, not capital.
Care alone doesn’t pay the bills.
We’re proud of that choice, but it’s also why we’re here—asking for your help.

Located in a small, quiet neighbourhood square near the heart of Peniche, Portugal, Largo is where work doesn't just happen at a desk computer screen. It happens on quiet mornings where remote workers share a coffee break and end up collaborating on a new project, or a team of designers propose and explore possibilities beyond the constraints of the present.

Inside Largo’s 160-square-meters of open space there is a Library of Things and Makerspace, coworking areas, a kitchen, all in a flexible layout that can adapt to many kinds of usages, events, workshops or community gatherings.

Here, locals and remote workers, thinkers and makers get together. Here kids teach adults how to prototype their ideas in our Maker Space 3D printer. Computers are repaired and donated for remote learning. A neighbour teaches a recipe. Novelists find silence in the hum of conversation. A team sketches their next project on the whiteboard wall.

🌱 Why it matters

We believe spaces like Largo are essential infrastructure. They’re the soil in which ideas root and grow. In a world of disconnection and precarity, Largo offers something rare, just by existing and being open:

• Shared meaning — A collective sense of purpose that forms when diverse people co-create something together.
• Slow growth — intentional, sustainable development rooted in trust and care.
• Real community — a web of relationships built through mutual support, openness, and ongoing presence.

We hope to not just survive—but to evolve, and to become an example of radical openness, care-based design, and circular community funding.

We want to invite everyone into the process with radical transparency, sharing questions, learnings and takeaways throughout. We want to continue shaping the space, systems, and decisions around the needs, well-being, and voices of the people who use it — prioritizing relationships and inclusion over efficiency or profit. Even more, we want resources to be shared and reinvested locally to sustain the community that sustains the space.

🌿 What are we asking?

We’re at a critical moment. Due to a mix of ongoing rent obligations and a lack of funding buffers, Largo is in debt—and the future is even more uncertain.
Without urgent support, we won’t be able to keep Largo alive. With your support, we want to:

• To pay off debt we have with Largo's very supportive landlady that we deeply appreciate for all the support and patience shown to the project. Right now we have a year of rent to be paid.
• To secure future rent and to design a better structure to make Largo, and spaces like Largo, financially sustainable long term.
• To make the space better, to make repairs and upgrades to the space and if possible, add on to what we already have.

To keep it open, and keep it going.

🌳 A campaign for the bigger questions

We believe spaces like Largo shouldn’t be the exception. They should be everywhere.

How do we keep places like this alive in a world that doesn’t value them financially?
How do we fund commons—not because they generate profit, but because they generate meaning, memory, and connection?
So this isn’t just a plea—it’s an invitation to co-create. We’re treating this not only as a fundraiser, but as an open experiment in how grassroots spaces can sustain themselves with community support.
We will:

• Share transparent budgets and updates weekly.
• Host community assemblies to discuss priorities, needs and progress.
• Share documentation of the process — questions, learnings, takeaways, resources and tools—to serve as a model for others trying to build places like Largo elsewhere.

🍃 How you can support

If you believe spaces like this should exist—not just in Peniche, but anywhere—please join and support us.

This is just our very first out call for help. We will be updating and upgrading almost daily as we build and find more ways of keeping Largo.

Contribute financially what you can, if you can, via:

• MB WAY: +351 960001270
• Paypal: https://paypal.me/largospace
• Transfer/ Bank IBAN: PT50 0036 0548 9910600687589

Spread the word: share Largo on social media, WhatsApp groups, or over coffee.
Share your skills: from painting to web design to hosting a workshop — every action is appreciated.
Join a conversation: we’re building this together, with space for every voice.