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An affordable business address services for creatives.

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.

A professional business address creates a confident and trusted first impression for your clients and keeps your home address private and separate from your business.

We have two premises to choose from: our South Belfast address at 51 Malone Road, BT9 6RY or our City Centre Cathedral Quarter address 46 Hill Street, BT1 2LB.

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. As a creative industries organisation we also offer reduced rates for creative industry businesses.

Have a look at the information below on the options and prices available. Once you have decided you want to go ahead there is a simple online application to complete available below or get in touch with us if you have any questions or for more information.  You can also check out the FAQs at the bottom of the page.

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Monthly and Weekly Options

Monthly Business Address Service

We will redirect up to 15 items of regular and standard large letter-sized business mail to the address of your choice monthly. Post beyond the 15 letters will be charged at the price of postage, and the cost will be added to your following bill.

As a virtual office customer, you are entitled to 20% off meeting and boardroom hire fees (free AV equipment use with room hire).

Monthly Rate (Paid Quarterly)Annual Rate
UK Based Creative* Business£22.50£200
UK Based Non-Creative Business£30£300
EU Based Creative* Businesses£30£300
EU Based Non-Creative Businesses£40£400
*The vision of Blick Shared Studios is to focus on the needs of creative industry entrepreneurs. Creative businesses will be classified as eligible for reduced creative industry prices for virtual services using 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 (i.e. video games), music, the performing arts, publishing, software, and television and radio.

Weekly Business Address Service

We will redirect business mail to the address of your choice weekly. Up to 25 items of regular and standard large letter-sized mail per calendar month. Post beyond the 25 letters will be charged at the price of postage, and the cost will be added to your following bill.

As a virtual office customer, you are entitled to 20% off meeting and boardroom hire fees (free AV equipment use with room hire).

Monthly Rate (Paid Quarterly)Yearly Rate
UK based Creative* Business£30£300
UK based Non-Creative Business£40£400
EU based Creative* Businesses £40£400
EU based Non-Creative Businesses £50£500
*The vision of Blick Shared Studios is to focus on the needs of creative industry entrepreneurs. Creative businesses will be classified as eligible for reduced creative industry prices for virtual services using 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 (i.e. video games), music, the performing arts, publishing, software, and television and radio.

Virtual Office FAQ's

All fees must be paid in advance by direct debit or bank transfer. All monthly fees must be paid quarterly in advance and all annual fees must be paid in full in advance.

We will let you know via email when any parcels or oversized letters arrive, however unfortunately due to the costs involved all parcels and oversized letters (not including standard large letter sized post) must either be collected at an arranged time from our main premises at 51 Malone Road, Belfast, BT9 6RY or can be forwarded at an additional cost.

Mail will be redirected via Royal Mail to the address supplied on a weekly or monthly basis depending on the service selected.

For UK creative businesses:

Our monthly business address service costs £22.50 per month or £200.00 annually or for our weekly business address service £30.00 per month or £300.00 annually.

For UK non-creative businesses:

Our monthly business address service costs £30.00 per month or £300 per year or for our weekly business address service £40.00 per month or £400.00 annually.

For EU Creative businesses:

Our monthly business address service costs £30.00 per month or £300.00 per year or for our weekly business address service £40.00 per month or £400.00 annually.

For EU non-Creative businesses:

Our monthly business address service costs £40.00 per month or £400.00 per year or for our weekly business address service £50.00 per month or £500.00 annually.

You can choose between our two premises:

South Belfast
51 Malone Road
Belfast, BT9 6RY

or Cathedral Quarter
Belfast City Centre
46 Hill Street
Belfast BT1 2LB.

Blick Shared Studios Malone Road
Blick Shared Studios Malone Road

Why Choose Blick?

A service designed by creatives for creatives

Blick is a local, independent social enterprise offering affordable shared workspace, events, services and support for creatives in Belfast. Choosing Blick means your money goes to support the local economy and the creative industries in Northern Ireland. You can see some of our impact in the community find our more about our creative projects and our online resources for creatives.

Our services have been designed by creatives for creatives. We cut out the unnecessary extras and aim to offer excellent value for money and really good service by a small but professional team. We have 15 years experience providing virtual services 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.

We currently have three buildings in Belfast, two in Belfast’s creative Cathedral Quarter area close to Belfast School of Art and the other in leafy South Belfast near Queens University Belfast and offer virtual services within both the Cathedral Quarter and South Belfast.

If you would like to go ahead and set up the service there is a simple online application to complete available below or get in touch for more information.

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It's the start of a new month and we are super excited to kick start the month by announcing our next Creative Talk which will be as part of our new Nurture Program with a local creative sharing their story. Speaker details coming soon!

Sign up now via the link in our profile for your free ticket! ✨️ 🌟
Don't forget it's the last week to apply for our new creative support program offering free workspace and support for creatives in Belfast!

Here are some of the features of the program

Creative Workspace - Each program participant will have 24/7 access to their own dedicated deskspace as well as use of shared communal facilities throughout the program. In addition they will benefit from the following support:

Monthly one-on-one mentoring sessions – for accountability with Blick founder Christine James

Monthly peer-mentoring group sessions with the other program participants – for peer support, learning, inspiration, community and accountability.

Quarterly finance mentoring sessions – to help with financial planning and advice with Blick and freelance finance manager Rosy James

Monthly industry specific skillshare training workshops for program participants – with current and past Blick residents and team members, sharing their skills and experiences with the program participants

Monthly online business resources, worksheets and exercises – to help you refine your idea, improve your skills and knowledge and for accountability and to establish your creative practice

Quarterly creative talks – by local creatives sharing their creative journey for inspiration and peer learning

Quarterly industry specific skillshare workshops – by local creatives sharing their expertise to improve skills and knowledge

Showcasing and promotional opportunities – on our website and social media and through presenting your work at a showcase event at the end of the project

Closing date: Friday 27th October

For more info visit our website (link in profile) or email christine@blickstudios.org

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It's the last week to apply for our new creative support program! We are offering free workspace and support over an 8-month period for 4 creatives in Belfast to help them develop their creative business or freelance practice! Visit our website or email christine@blickstudios.org for more info 

Closing this Friday!
Last chance to sign up for tomorrow's @creativemorning Fieldtrip on 'Designing Your Life Through Doodles & Drawings' at 12pm UK time!

Join us for a fun and interactive workshop and use drawing and doodling to create your own mini zine you can carry around or stick on your wall to help inspire and motivate you to make better life choices to improve your health and wellbeing!
Here are some of the benefits you could experience from taking part in our Nurture Creative Incubation Program, which will provide free workspace and support for 4 creatives over an 8 month period:

- Support, community & motivation - from working alongside like-minded creatives in the free workspace and program activities

- Space to focus and work productively - as well as share ideas and inspiration in the free workspace and different program activities

- Support & accountability from monthly one-on-one mentoring to keep you motivated & on track with your creative idea

- Improved finance confidence & knowledge from quarterly finance mentoring

- Improved practical skills & knowledge from skillshare workshops with creative professionals and the different business resources and exercises provided

- Inspiration & motivation from hearing local creatives’ stories at the creative talks and workshops

- Marketing & promotional opportunities through sharing your creative idea through the Blick social media and website and at a showcase event at the end of the program

- Confidence & presentation skills from regularly talking about your work to the group and the public at the showcase event at the end of the program

For more information on the program visit our website link below or in profile or email christine@blickstudios.org

https://blickstudios.org/nurture-support-for-emerging-creatives/
As part of our new international collaborative project Design Your Life we are hosting a series of online design-led workshops to imagine, explore ​and create new habits and beliefs. 

- - DESIGN YOUR LIFE THROUGH DOODLES & DRAWINGS - - 

About the workshops

Design your life to improve your health and wellbeing through doodling, drawing and collaging in this interactive visual journaling workshop.

Use the power of doodling, drawing, cutting and sticking to help you look inward, reflect on your life and lifestyle and use the principles of design to help you redesign a healthier, happier life.

 

Workshop agendas

The Past. We will begin the fieldtrip by exploring our past. Examining past choices, habits and any regrets, or unprocessed thoughts or feelings we may be holding on to that are impacting our health and wellbeing.

The Present. In the second part of the fieldtrip, we will reflect on our current lives and lifestyles exploring the many different individual daily decisions and choices we all make which impact how we feel, our health and wellbeing, how we live our lives and almost everything that happens in our lives.

The Future. We will use design thinking principles in the final part of the fieldtrip to help us to imagine small, sustainable changes we can each make to design our future lives and lifestyles to improve our health and well-being.

 

What to know or bring to the workshops

Pen or pencil, crayons or colouring pencils
A minimum of 2 sheets of A4 paper
Optional: masking tape or washi tape, scissors, glue and magazine images

Workshop time and dates:

Online zoom workshop: 
Date: Monday 23rd September
Time: 11.45am - 1.00pm

Creative mornings fieldtrip:
Date: Tuesday 24th September 
Time: 12.00 - 1.00pm

You can sign up to both via our events and workshops website page (link in profile) ✨️ 

Workshop time and dates:

Online zoom workshop: 

Date: Monday 23rd September

Time: 11.45am - 1.00pm

Creative mornings fieldtrip:

Date: Tuesday 24th September 

Time: 12.00 - 1.00pm

Links to sign up for both are in our profile
On our new 8-month incubation program starting this October 4 emerging creatives will each get bespoke business support and free shared creative workspace in our new South Belfast studios. Each program participant will have 24/7 access to their own dedicated deskspace as well as use of shared communal facilities throughout the program. For more info on the program and support available visit our website (link in profile)
Our lovely Cotton Court studios, which are right opposite the Merchant Hotel in the Cathedral Quarter!
Applications are now open for our new creative incubation program offering 4 emerging creatives workspace and support to develop their creative idea over an 8-month period! for more info visit our website (link in profile)
We are very excited to announce a brand new project we have been working on called “Design Your Life”

An international collaboration between The Design ​Salon which we are a partner of alongside Karishma Kusurkar and Kylie Chan Illustration Design Your Life will feature an ​interactive installation at AIRSIDE Hong Kong and a ​series of design-led workshops to imagine, explore ​and create new habits and beliefs.

Design Your Life has been selected to be a part of ​the British Council’s SPARK 2024 Festival in Hong Kong ​which will take place this October.

More info coming soon!
NURTURE CREATIVE INCUBATION PROGRAM

An 8-month program to help 4 emerging creatives in Belfast establish their creative practice. Providing bespoke business support and free shared creative workspace in our new South Belfast studios. Each program participant will have 24/7 access to their own dedicated deskspace as well as use of shared communal facilities throughout the program. In addition they will benefit from the following support:

Monthly one-on-one mentoring sessions – for accountability with Blick founder Christine James

Monthly peer-mentoring group sessions with the other program participants – for peer support, learning, inspiration, community and accountability.

Quarterly finance mentoring sessions – to help with financial planning and advice with Blick and freelance finance manager Rosy James

Monthly industry specific skillshare training workshops for program participants – with current and past Blick residents and team members, sharing their skills and experiences with the program participants

Monthly online business resources, worksheets and exercises – to help you refine your idea, improve your skills and knowledge and for accountability and to establish your creative practice

Quarterly creative talks – by local creatives sharing their creative journey for inspiration and peer learning

Quarterly industry specific skillshare workshops – by local creatives sharing their expertise to improve skills and knowledge

Showcasing and promotional opportunities – on our website and social media and through presenting your work at a showcase event at the end of the project

 

Program dates:

1st October 2024 – 31st May 2025

For more info visit our website (link in profile) or get in touch!