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

– 24 hour access

– 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

– 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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As you wind down for Christmas, read this interview with @verahylands, an artist with a passion for Northern Ireland's woodlands and natural habitats. Vera is a participant on our Nurture programme and is hoping to build a creative brand that not only brings attention to the beauty of Northern Ireland’s nature but also actively advocates for its preservation.

We're off now for a wee break for Christmas 🎄 until 6th Jan! Thanks as always for your support this year and happy holidays everyone!
Find out a bit about Grainne co-founder of @kitschsistersbelfast and one of the participants on our Nurture Creative Incubation Program!
Find out a bit about Grainne co-founder of @kitschsistersbelfast and one of the participants on our Nurture Creative Incubation Program!
Our cosy Cotton Court studios in the Cathedral Quarter, where we currently have this lovely dedicated deskspace under the lightwell
available for £125 per calendar month all-inclusive

Email christine@blickstudios.org for more info or visit the Cotton Court page on our website (link in profile)
Another chance to find out a bit about Bethany Millican @bethanysmillican artist, illustrator and participant in our Nurture Creative Incubation Program. Bethany is hosting an exhibition as part of late Late Night Art East this Thursday 12th December, where she will be exhibiting some of her work at Boundary Taproom and selling some of her beautiful water illustration 2025 calendars. The perfect Christmas present! 

Read the full blog on our website blog ✨️ (link in profile)
Great few days of learning and reflection at 'Bautopia 5 Culture and Creativity Conference on Ecological and Financial Sustainability in the creative and cultural sectors' in Bologna! Now off to Venice for a weekend of fun!
Finally we remembered to get a group photo at our weekly Nurture Program catch-up! Thanks @verahylands for the reminder! I am loving getting to work with these brilliant creatives each week and am looking forward to sharing more about them and their creative ideas on our website and socials in coming weeks!

In the meantime, here's a quick introduction!

@makeitfashion.bt - local sustainable emerging fashion brand

@verahylands - a super talented artist with a mission to support NI woodlands through her work 

@bethanysmillican - an illustrator, currently working on her first solo exhibition for December Late Night Art East and an accompanying calendar of beautiful water themed works

@kitschsistersbelfast - crafty and creative events company. Currently working on organising a Winter Solstice Supper Club for Saturday 14th December
Downloadable cashflow forecast template! Similar to a budget, a cashflow forecast helps you to plan ahead for your creative business it will show you if you will have enough cash to run the business or expand it. It will also show you when more cash is going out of the business than in. We have included a downloadable Excel template linked to the budget template to make it simple for you to get started with putting together your own cashflow forecast for your creative business. Link below or in profile 

https://blickstudios.org/resources/useful-finance-resources-links/
Today's finance resource for emerging creatives is a budget template that you can download from our website as an excel document and complete for your creative business. �Putting together a budget for your creative business will help you to understand your costs, plan out your expenses and reach your goals. It's also not as complicated as it seems, we have included a downloadable excel budget template on the resources section of our website to help you to put one together for your business (link in our bio or below):

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�Today for our finance resources for emerging creatives we are sharing what you need to include on an invoice, something that seems obvious, but really isn't when you are starting out!

�You can download an invoice template as a word or PDF document from the 'Resources for Creatives' section of our website (link in bio or below) that you can then customise for your creative business!

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Thanks again to everyone who came along to @stephaniesaloli's creative talk last Wednesday evening and to Stephanie for giving such a great talk with so many insights and lessons for emerging creatives, as always we will be doing a wee event write up over coming weeks of the key lessons!
This week we have been thrilled to have been able to help with @belfastdesignwk  and @the_design_salon 's Sustainable Pop-up Design Museum as part of the RE(act) Festival by the @linenquarter in the Europa Hotel today and tomorrow!

If you are attending any events at the festival or just passing by you can pop by to take a look at the Pop-up Design Museum on the 2nd floor!

The Pop-up Design Museum feature 5 local designers incorporating sustainability into their work

- Sam Lynas Co-founder of @get.haru @helpandreuse a tech startup focused on circular fashion

- Azhar Murtuza Founder of @born_maverick a food innovation company

- Stéphanie Heckman @stephaniesaloli a graphic recorder and visual facilitator focusing on working on climate and sustainability events

- Lee Robb founder of Positive Carrickfergus and Co-founder of Carrick Greengrocers @carrickgrocers

- Emily McIlwaine @emtextiles Woven Designer and Horticulturalist

You can also read fab interviews with each of them on sustainability and their design practice over on the Belfast Design Week Website www.belfastdesignweek.com