OUR MEMBERS
Here at 86 Princess Street, our studios are home to a community of creative businesses and organisations, spanning art, tech, music, design and more.
Tech & Innovation
Big Echo offers online resources, unique events, and hands-on workshops. They are a partnership of coaches, technologists, teachers, strategists - even an improv comedian - united by a passion for unlocking innate creativity. They exist to empower you to co-create new ideas that energise teams, improve customer experiences and unlock new revenue.
Workshops
Class Bento is a curated marketplace for arts and crafts workshops, making it easier for teachers and students to connect. Their mission is to improve our customers' mental and social well-being through finding new hobbies.
Architecture
Common Practice is a small independent architectural studio. For them, the most important part of the design process is understanding the people, as well as the site and the context. This means embracing a collaborative approach to find common values, align common goals, and ultimately working towards a common good.
GiftTrees is the free, simple integration that turns everyday hospitality transactions into impact for people, planet and prosperity. With a simple, optional contribution on the bill, restaurants and hospitality businesses give their guests an effortless way to do good, helping plant trees in agroforestry projects across Sub-Saharan Africa that restore ecosystems, strengthen food security and create sustainable income for farming families.
Analytics
Sustainable Farming
Horsefly Analytics is a global talent intelligence platform trusted by large-scale organisations, RPOs, and public sector leaders worldwide. They deliver real-time labour market insights across talent acquisition, workforce planning, skills-based hiring, and DE&I analytics, helping leaders make strategic workforce decisions that make a difference.
Community Darkroom
Start your journey with analogue photography the right way with introductions to film photography, or well-versed darkroom users can become members to use equipment. At Negative Development they provide everything needed to function and film test your camera, while answering any questions you have about film or photography in general.
Graphic Design
StudioDBD is a design practice best known for creating brand identities for various Manchester institutions. They have also organised BCNMCR, a project combining Barcelona agencies with the city of Manchester, and designed and produced a book featuring the work of 60 Barcelona designers and creatives.
Brand & Creative Consultancy
With over 20 years of leading agency and in-house experience, Studio Zenko has branded places that have come to define cities and delivered positive change for purposeful not-for-profits. Alongside their studio projects, they also support various organisations in an operational and mentoring capacity. As one of the few LGBTQ+ owned (and even fewer trans-owned) companies in the industry, they are acutely aware of the importance of diversity, equity, and the power of positive representation.
Solicitors
Winley Ford’s knowledge, attention to detail, and robust approach to the analysis of evidence allows them to lead clients through the intricacies of each stage of the criminal process from investigation to case conclusion. They pride themselves on their warm and personable approach in offering a new, refreshing, and bespoke service to clients.