Fairfield Social Club hosts conferences, brand launches, awards dinners, private parties and weddings for 40 to 400 guests across four spaces. The independent, family-run venue occupies revamped industrial buildings at 6 Irk Street in Manchester city center, beside the Angel Meadow park and five minutes on foot from Victoria station.
Seminars and company events
Corporate hire covers multi-day conferences, exhibitions, delegate meetings, brand launches, research projects and awards dinners. Day hire runs from 9 am to 5 pm and evening hire from 6 pm to midnight, every day of the week. Organisers can take the large warehouse space, smaller rooms with extra breakout areas, or the whole site. A PA system, AV equipment and wifi come with the rooms, and extras such as projectors, screens, microphones, additional lighting, DJ booths, dance floors, karaoke and quizzes can be added. For anything not held in house, the team works with suppliers it has already tested.
Weddings and receptions
The venue is licensed for marriage ceremonies, so a couple can marry and celebrate on the same site. Ceremonies can take place in The Club, The Shed, The Back Room or the garden, and every wedding package comes with a dedicated wedding manager. Weddings range from groups of around 50 to the full venue, and the team builds the food, drinks and room dressing around each couple.
Rooms and capacities
The Club is the main hire space, with its own private bar, an outdoor chill-out area, a large stage, a sound system, live PA, a giant disco ball and flexible lighting. It takes 240 standing, 220 seated, 140 at banquet tables, or 170 at banquet tables when the mezzanine is added.
The Shed is the most popular public bar, decorated with plants and pastel colors, with ten draft lines, sofas, long tables and its own sound. It holds 100 standing, 60 at banquet tables or 80 with sofas and casual seating.
The Back Room sits next to The Shed, with its own sound system, DJ booth, small stage and disco lighting, and uses the bar of The Shed. It takes 80 standing, 75 seated, 60 in a casual party layout or 40 at banquet tables.
The Garden, with plants, murals and festoon lights, takes more than 150 people and is only available privately as part of a full venue hire.
Catering
The FSC Garden Kitchen is the resident kitchen, cooking Mediterranean dishes with seasonal produce. Menus run from gyros, grazing boxes and snacks for informal parties to canapés, grazing tables and seated banquet menus for conferences, corporate dinners and weddings. Street food vendors such as Pizza Mutt, Oscars Dogs and Pez Tacos can also be booked. Two fully stocked bars serve wines, spirits, cocktails and low-alcohol drinks, and the beer comes from Black Jack Brewing, less than 100 meters away. Welcome drinks, bar tabs, drink tokens, tea and coffee can be arranged.
History and setting
The venue opened in its current form in March 2024 and describes itself as independent, sustainability focused, family run, LGBTQ+ friendly and dog friendly. It sits among old railway arches, brick warehouses and the greenery of Angel Meadow. Outside private hire it opens to the public from Thursday to Sunday, with ticketed comedy nights.
Getting there
Manchester Victoria station and the Shudehill tram and bus interchange are both about five minutes away on foot. Manchester Airport is around half an hour away by car or tram.
