ArcSpace Manchester is a community interest company which promotes cultural exchange and skills sharing. We are located in St Wilfrid's Enterprise Centre in Hulme, a converted Church and Grade 2 listed building. Just like the building in which we reside one of our chief goals is to actively promote the use of existing materials, ideas and technology; albeit it in exciting and innovative ways.

The ArcSpace environment is informal and holistic and we invite you to come and learn and to share your knowledge and experiences with people locally and internationally through face to face and online interaction. We boast a socially and geographically diverse membership which includes individuals from the Manchester and international academic community, local residents, charity workers, students, musicians, artists, computer and technology specialists, elderly people and members from the refugee community.

We also have partnerships with a large number of organisations from local High Schools and businesses to companies in South America and Pakistan.

Objectives

We promote informal learning and bottom up development, social regeneration, and the cross fertilisation of ideas between local and academic communities in Manchester and beyond. All of our activities could roughly be seen as 'eco techno' and we prioritise peer to peer learning and knowledge sharing.

Our constituted objective is to carry out activities which benefit the community and in particular to provide, maintain and manage a virtual and physical space designed to promote social and creative interaction and cohesion and enable information exchange between diverse individuals, organisations and communities in particular but not exclusively by:

1. (a) nurturing creativity through the provision of workshops and training events based on informal and peer-to-peer learning.
2. (b) running community, intergenerational and intercultural events to promote community cohesion.
3. (c) utilising free, open-source software to enable unity between virtual communities.
4. (d) providing a free drop-in and sign posting service to the community.