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We currently have 1 dedicated deskspace available in our Hill St Studios £165 per calendar month all inclusive (rates, utilities, broadband). Email christine@blickstudios.org for more info or to arrange a viewing or get in touch below

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Shared Workspace Blick Shared Studios Hill Street
Shared Workspace Blick Shared Studios Hill Street

The Workspace

In our Hill Street studios we offer private and shared workspace to over 20 creatives. The space we offer is fully serviced, flexible, furnished and affordable. Our prices are all inclusive including rent, rates, utilities and broadband. You can also enjoy the dedicated breakout spaces for getting away from your desk or meeting clients.

Shared Workspace

We currently have 1 dedicated deskspace available in our Hill St Studios £165 per calendar month all inclusive (rates, utilities, broadband).

– 24 hour access

– use of meeting rooms in our Malone studios

– City centre location in the heart of the Cathedral Quarter close to the MAC, the Black Box, Ulster University and lots of shops, coffee shops and bars

– Minimum 3 months contract then on a rolling monthly contract

– 1 months rent required as a deposit

Email christine@blickstudios.org for more info or to arrange a viewing or get in touch below

Get In Touch
Shared Workspace Blick Shared Studios Hill Street
Breakout Space Blick Shared Studios Hill Street

Our Hill Street studios are situated in a beautiful loft style building, full of creatives in the heart of Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter.

Private Workspace

– No private workspace currently available

– Prices from £500 per private workspace per calendar month all inclusive (rates, utilities, broadband) and no VAT

– 24 hour access

– use of meeting rooms in our Malone studios

– City centre location in the heart of the Cathedral Quarter close to the MAC, the Black Box, Ulster University and lots of shops, coffee shops and bars

– Minimum 3 months contract then on a rolling monthly contract

– 1 months rent required as a deposit

Get in touch
Creative Workspace Blick Shared Studios Hill Street
Breakout Space Blick Shared Studios Hill Street
Shared Workspace Blick Shared Studios Hill Street
Breakout Space Blick Shared Studios Hill Street
Eligibility

The vision of Blick Shared Studios is to focus on the needs of creatives. To be eligible for taking workspace within Blick, you need to be working within the creative industries.

Falling within the UK’s definition of the creative industries – ‘those industries that are based on individual creativity, skill and talent with the potential to create wealth and jobs through developing intellectual property’ – includes thirteen sectors: advertising, architecture, the art and antiques market, crafts, design, designer fashion, film, interactive leisure software (ie. video games), music, the performing arts, publishing, software, and television and radio.

You will be asked to complete a short application form to ensure your eligibility before taking a space at Blick.

Shared Workspace Blick Shared Studios Hill Street
Mezzanine Worksace Blick Shared Studios Hill Street

Alex, Designer

“Blick’s Hill Street studios are bang in the middle of one of the most exciting and creative areas to be in. It’s a great space to be in, and full of like-minded people from all manner of disciplines which in itself creates all manner of opportunities.”

The Location

Our Hill Street studios are situated in the heart of Belfast’s creative Cathedral Quarter on Hill Street, close to the Duke of York, Neighbourhood, Established Coffee, the Black Box, Ulster University, The Mac and many other arts and cultural organisations.

Our Location
Exterior image of Blick Studios, Hill Street, Belfast
Why Choose Blick's Hill Street Studios?

Blick is a local, independent social enterprise offering affordable shared workspace, events, services and support for creatives in Belfast.

We have over 15 years experience providing workspace for creatives. We know what we are doing and can be relied upon to provide a professional service as well as being friendly and approachable.

Our spaces have been designed by creatives for creatives and offer quiet, intimate working spaces in buildings with character and charm to allow for productivity and creativity as well as community and collaboration. We aim to keep our services as affordable as possible so don’t offer free coffee/tea/ additional perks just try to offer really good service in nice spaces with nice people.

46 Hill Street is one of our two Cathedral Quarter Studios based in the Belfast city centre. The Cathedral Quarter is generally referred to as a cultural quarter due to the growth of arts and culture based business and organisations that reside within the area.  Our Hill Street studios are on the top floor and are made up of an open plan shared workspace area and breakout area, two private studio spaces and kitchen area. There is also an attic style mezzanine which houses a further twelve deskspaces and skylights which let in plenty of natural light for our residents. Our studios have a lovely wooden floor and original features including beams and an industrial winch. You can read more about the history of our Hill St studios on our blog below.

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Breakout Space Blick Shared Studios Hill Street
Breakout Space Blick Shared Studios Hill Street
Breakout Space Blick Shared Studios Hill Street

Choosing Blick means your money goes to support the local economy and the creative industries in Northern Ireland.

Hill Street Workspace FAQs

Membership Agreements are for a minimum of 3 months, followed by a rolling month-by-month contract.

Rent, Rates, Heating, Electricity, High-Speed Broadband, Office Furniture, use of Kitchen, Building maintenance, Cleaning of common areas, 24-hour access (There is no VAT payable).

We require 1 months rent to be paid by bank transfer as deposit to secure the space. This deposit will then be returned by bank transfer when you move out and have returned your keys and left your workspace clean and tidy without alterations. The first months rent will be due to be paid by bank transfer at the start of your rental term and invoiced thereafter on a monthly basis.

Unfortunately we don’t have a meeting room within our Hill Street studios, but the facilities within our Malone studios can be accessed free of charge by Hill Street Blick residents, but is subject to booking and availability.

We do not offer any free parking at our Hill Street Studios but there is paid on street parking in the surrounding streets and a number of car parks a short walk away, affordable daily parking is available on Corporation Street, Lancaster Street and Little Donegal Street and you can also park within St Anne’s Square Belfast.

Our Hill Street studios are open 24 hours for residents to access.

We don’t provide any extra services, we prefer to keep things simple and keep costs down for our resident businesses and put any profits we make back into supporting the local creative economy through free creative business support events and workshops.

Our buildings are fully serviced and furnished, and our prices are inclusive of rent, rates, utilities, broadband and use of communal meeting spaces, making renting an office simple.

Shared Workspace Prices Hill Street

  • £165 per individual desk-space
  • Discounts for renting multiple desks available

Private Office space costs Hill Street

Our private offices start from £500 for an office for 4 people but vary depending on size. Email christine@blickstudios.org for costs of specific office spaces.

Please get in touch with us, we try to be flexible where we can to meet individual business needs, so either give us a call on +44 (0)28 9020 7832 or drop us an email to christine@blickstudios.org with what you are looking for and we will do our best to accommodate you.

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Our next Blick Animation Club event in partnership with Can Do Academy is on Saturday 18th May!

These mini animation master classes by Can Do Academy are a great introduction for children to the colourful world of Lego animation!

The workshop will allow participants to make a complete animated Lego film on an iPad, using sound effects, visual effects, titles and lots of imagination!

Your child will learn to use special iPad apps and they will receive a copy of their film at the end of the session! They can bring their own Lego characters or use the ones supplied by us.

More info at candoacademy.co.uk

Please note that these workshops are suitable for children aged 7+

Event Date(s): May 18, 2024

Event Time: 2pm – 4pm

Location: Blick Studios, 51 Malone Road Belfast BT9 6RY

Cost: £15 + Booking Fee

For more info and to book visit the events page on our website (link in profile) 🌼 🌸 🌻
WOMENFOLK JUNIOR.SENIOR

Introducing our new reformatted @womenfolk.co Junior.Senior. events. A series of leisurely bi-monthly Saturday morning brunch events for creative women in Belfast. Where over coffee, fruit and pastries within an intimate setting two local creative women will share the stories of their creative journeys. Each event will feature an established self-employed creative woman complimented by a young emerging creative starting out on their creative journey. Each speaker will tell the story of their creative journey so far and share honestly the challenges and opportunities they face. Giving different perspectives on the different stages of the creative journey.

These events are all about sharing knowledge and skills within the creative community so we can help each other grow. There will also be opportunities for meeting like-minded people, building community and creating new connections and helping champion young emerging designers by giving them the opportunity to share their story to a supportive and encouraging local audience.

Kick starting Saturday 15th June at 11.30am in our Hill Street Studios!

Event Date(s): June 15, 2024

Event Time: 11.30am

Location: Blick Shared Studios, Hill Street, Belfast BT1 2LB

Cost: Donation
Can't wait for this sold out event next week with Paul Boal founder of Clever Ghost sharing his creative story!
Another chance to see our latest roundup of funding, support, opportunities, events, exhibitions and festivals for creatives

FUNDING, SUPPORT & OPPORTUNITIES

- £575,000 Augment the City Challenge Fund
- CIRCE Fellowship Programme 2024
- Beyond Literature Borders – International Work Grant
- Call 2 of the Digital Transformation Flexible Fund (DTFF) is now open for expressions of interest
- InvestNI new £5 million programme has launched to support entrepreneurs and high growth start-ups in Northern Ireland.
- InnovateUK Smart Grants: Up to £1M
- Catalyst Stryve Programme
- Invent Awards
- Creative Lunch Club
- The National Lottery Support for Individual Artists Programme – Travel Awards – rolling programme
- Digital Arts Studios XR Research & Development Lab
- Craft NI Garden Show Ireland Craft Village Call Out
- Women in Business and Techstart Female Founders Grant
- The Content Fund
- National Trust Time and Space Newton Competition
- The SideQuest X Creature Indie VR Fund
- Horizon Europe Pump Priming Programme
- British Council International Collaboration Grants
- Poetry with pride
- Wheelworks Arts I Will Volunteering Programme
- Venice gap-financing market call for projects

EXHIBITIONS

Ringside, an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Sean McGibbon, celebrating Belfast’s boxing culture.
Venue: Ormeau Baths Belfast
Date: 18 Apr at 6pm

Lavery on Location
Venue: Ulster Museum
Dates: 23rd Feb -  9th Jun

EVENTS

Go Succeed business events

AI and the Future of Live Experience
Date and time: 10 Apr, 3pm - 5pm
Location: online 

How to produce a kick ass application
Date and time: 10 Apr, 11 am - 12:30 pm
Location: Online

XR Network+ online seminar: Sound Design in Virtual Production
Date and time: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:00 - 15:15 BST
Location: Online
Pop Up Gallery Belfast

Dates and times: Sat 20th and Sun 28th Apr, 11am to 3pm
Location: Black Box Belfast

East Block Bazaar
Date and time: Sun 28th April 1pm to 5pm
Location: Banana Block

FESTIVALS

Foyle Film Festival 2024 – Reel Lives
10 to 27 Apr

Hit the north
20th - 30th April

The 24th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival
2 to 12 May

You can read the full listings including links on our blog
A quick recap of the month of March at Blick!

- After a couple of years break, we gave ourselves a deadline and finally got our act together and re-launched our Womenfolk project (www.womenfolk.co) for creative women on International Women’s Day

- Including doing a call out for creative women business owners to feature on our Womenfolk platform (www.womenfolk.co)

- And inviting new members to join our ongoing Womenfolk Peer Mentoring group which meets on the last Tuesday of every month

- We welcomed new residents Horrible Brands to join our Cotton Court studios

- We completed an application for an exciting international project and connected with an international partner for another exciting project we hope to apply for this month

- We published the third exercise on creative and business values on our new resources for creatives section on our website https://blickstudios.org/resources/11802/

Looking back at what you have achieved in the past month is a great exercise in itself, to remind you that things are moving forwards and you are making progress even if it doesn’t always feel like it!
It's almost the weekend and a long one and it's stopped raining! Happy Easter 🐣 🐰
Did you know that we also offer virtual office services for creatives?

Our virtual office services is an affordable business address service for creatives giving you access to a commercial business address, for a professional image and keeping your home address private.

Whether you are just starting out and can’t yet afford workspace or are happy to work from home but seeking a professional public image for your business.

With our virtual office service you can use our City Centre Cathedral Quarter address 46 Hill Street, BT1 2LB for your creative business for only £22.50 per month (paid quarterly) or £200 per year.

We have a small team ensuring you get a friendly, personal and professional service and as a local social enterprise it means your money goes back into the local economy and to support the creative industries in Northern Ireland.

Have a look at our website for more info and to read our FAQs (link in profile) or email christine@blickstudios.org for more info
Our beautiful chandelier in our Malone studios as it changes through the seasons
Sunny Friday vibes in between the showers in our Malone studios this afternoon!
This month's new exercise on our website for anyone starting a new creative business is all about working out your personal and business values to help you define and develop your creative idea.

I first did a similar exercise to this when setting up Blick on a NESTA creative enterprise course way back in 2007 and it has been invaluable in helping me to make decisions and plans since and is really worth spending time on when starting out.

You can download the exercise as a PDF or word document on the creative resources section of our website (link in bio)

#blickcreativeresources #blickstudios #creativebusinessresources
#businessvalues
#personalvalues
Our next Blick Academy Creative Talk on Wed 17th April is by local designer and creative company founder Paul Boal!

Paul Boal is the Founder of Clever Ghost @‌thatcleverghost a brand and design studio based in Holywood, Northern Ireland. Founded in 2018 with a mission to influence positive change through clever design.

Paul and his team have created and managed brands across a diverse range of clients around the world from start-ups and SMEs to multinational companies.

His experience spans 14 years in the creative industry. To date, he has worked with clients including Cowen, the Irish Football Association, Queen’s University, Qualcom and evian in developing their brands and engaging with their audiences over numerous projects. Before founding Clever Ghost in 2018, Paul cut his teeth in various in-house design jobs. Eventually, he freelanced his way into several small design studios, overseeing the design team at a leading packaging company and working as a part-time lecturer in Creative Media.

Paul is one of our past creative residents at Blick and has done such an amazing job growing his business over the past few years, we are really excited to hear his story on how he started and has grown his creative business and his plans for the future.

You can find out more about Paul on his website: https://cleverghost.studio/ and instagram: @‌thatcleverghost

EVENT DETAILS

Date: Wednesday 17th April

Time: 7 - 8pm

Location: Blick Hill Street

Cost: Free

For more info and to book your ticket, visit the events page of our website (link in bio)
After a bit of a break following the pandemic, we are delighted this International Women's Day to bring back our @womenfolk.co project for creative women. New events and opportunities coming soon!

https://www.womenfolk.co/
Tired of working from home? We have just this one lovely desk available in our Hill St studios for £165 per calendar month all inclusive 

Send us a DM or email christine@blickstudios.org for more information or to arrange a viewing or visit the Hill St workspace page on our website (link in profile)
Feels like spring on Hill St today. Blue skies, 🌞 queues for🍦and 🚲 

#cathedralquarterbelfast #cathedralquarter