The Social

The full address of the venue is Aviva Studios, Water Street, Manchester M3 4JQ and the what3words is chop.feeds.chase.

There are accessible toilets on all public levels of our building.

Accessible toilets are located inside the main toilets space in the brick arches of the Social. The toilets are split into male, female and gender neutral – all of which contain accessible cubicles. The accessible toilets are towards the back of the space and contain left- or right-hand transfer, as well as ambulant accessible cubicles with grab rails and a Changing Places facility.

Our Changing Places is a fully accessible toilet with a height adjustable changing bench, a hoisting system, a peninsular toilet and sink.

There are shared handwashing facilities in each arch – they have soap dispensers under the mirrors to your left and dryers to the right. There are separate handwashing facilities inside the accessible cubicles.

Assistive listening at Aviva Studios is delivered through an Auracast-enabled broadcast system call Auri. It is available to use in both the Hall and the Warehouse.

If you have Auracast-enabled hearing aids and mobile device, you can either select and join the relevant channel, just like you would a Wi-Fi network, or scan one of the QR codes located next to all entrances to the Hall and Warehouse.

If you don’t yet have Auracast-enabled hearing aids, you can instead borrow a receiver and induction neck loop from us and connect just like you normally would to another assistive listening system (e.g. by switching to T). Receivers are available to sign-out from the orange Information Point located in the Social. You do not need to let us know ahead of time that you’d like to make use of the facility.

On our bars, box office, merch stands and information point, we make use of traditional portable induction loops.