Member Businesses and Organisations
Businesses and community organisations that join the ESTA Network share our ideals of creating a more collaborative business and community environment and generally support our Quadruple Bottom Line approach to business. Reputations are built over time, as we build strong reliable relationships. New members arrive on our networking ‘landing pad’ and prove themselves over time , eventually seeking to become Accredited Members who formally agree to abide by a specific level of ethical conduct.
We do not give a blanket recommendation for all our members, but advise prospective customers and clients to rely upon their judgement
and exercise due diligence in forming their own trusted relationships with our members.
Where our members have undertaken our Social Responsibility Training you will see the ESTA Logo next to their name.
We do not give a blanket recommendation for all our members, but advise prospective customers and clients to rely upon their judgement
and exercise due diligence in forming their own trusted relationships with our members.
Where our members have undertaken our Social Responsibility Training you will see the ESTA Logo next to their name.
Antifragility Yoga
Antifragility Yoga is a common-sense approach to getting stronger, fitter, more flexible, more resilient and inherently happier, healthier, more content, less stressed, (and hopefully) wiser and more fulfilled, a push to learn, to grow, to get better, to improve yourself and the world around you.
Beach Bird
We are Beach Bird, an independent shop on Morecambe promenade. We support local artists, authors and artisans by selling their work along with an eclectic range of curios, clothing, gifts and accessories.
Beyond Radio
Lancaster and Morecambes community radio station, bringing a unique service to the district via the airwaves and the internet.
Big Little Something - Ann Marie Ward
Jewellery and gifts designed and made in Lancashire.
Blend Accountants: Chartered Accountants & Business Advisors
Have the business you always dreamed of. With more profit, more time and a lot less stress. At Blend, we’re not your traditional accountants. We care about YOU. We care about YOUR business.
Bowden Photography
Weddings, portraits & Events Celebration
B's Knees
Preloved beautiful ladies wear and accessories ( some guys items too). Upcycled and reworked one off items. Located in the Assembly Rooms in the heart of Lancaster.
Caterfly
We support leaders and coaches of smarter working implementations or company-wide transformations.
Charge my Street
Charge my Street is a new Society which raises the money for local chargepoints, installs and operates them.
Code Up Lancaster
Free and friendly adult coding tuition.
CommEnt CIC
Supporting sustainable development by working with individuals, groups and organisations to develop community-based enterprises.
Complete Homeopathy
A complete natural healthcare system of homeopathic treatment for all illnesses and complaints.
Concept Hair and Beauty
You can expect the highest standard of service and commitment from our dedicated team of professionals.
Connect With Compassion
"We offer courses where participants can explore how to establish a quality of compassionate and respectful connection
Cushla Early Years Consultancy
"Independent consultant, trainer and writer with many years experience in the field of early years teaching and leadership.
Dacrelands Centre for Health
Providing affordable alternative health care in North Lancs and South Cumbria
Down to Earth
Beautiful things chosen with care. We specialise in fine jewellery, ethically sourced clothing and interesting craft. Beautiful design doesn't need to cost the earth.
Ecoheroes
Leading, changing and inspiring a green generation - the Eco Heroes show how our own behaviour matters and that every action, no matter how small, can make a difference to the Earth and the environment around us. Who cares? We care!
Eleanor Levin Creative Tuition
Spanish tuition - groups, one to one classes, GCSE and A Level coaching.
Filbert's Bakery
Proper, honest bread made with few ingredients and lots of love. We bake delicious fresh bread every morning along with breakfast goods, cakes and savouries.
Forgebank Films
High quality promotional and educational videos with a documentary feel which help individuals and organizations tell their stories.
Garchi
Old and new. Traditional and modern. Offline and online. We believe things can be done together, not one or the other. We’re a tech company with a big mission to digitise community’s marketplaces in the UK. This is Garchi.
Gas Contemprary Gallery - Morecambe
Modern art gallery right in the heart of Morecambe's West End. A hidden cultural gem.
Gavin Crossley Gardening
Concientious, reliable and efficient gardening services in the Morecambe and Heysham area.
Genesis Digital Marketing
We help business increase leads and sales through automated messaging, like Facebook Messenger
Go Creative Design Ltd
We create snazzy brands, design and manage eye-catching print projects and produce websites that work for you.
Groundswell Innovation
Helps people get the right ideas to market, faster and fitter for purpose - new products and services that solve customer problems, profitably.
Halton Mill Business Hub
Offering an environment in which small businesses, social enterprises, community organisations, artists, craftspeople and freelancers can flourish.
Harry Armistead Coaching
One road, one life, many opportunities to get it right. I have made it my mission to help as many people as I can to lead a better, richer, happier and more wholesome life – no matter what has come before or where a person may be right now.
Hettie Amelia Design
Hettie Amelia is a small business based in Lancaster. I use recycled and wested products to make all my products, getting fabrics from mill shops. We buy as much as our product locally as possible to keep our company pollution levels low.
Holistyx
Holistic Therapist Ceri Turner provides Swedish / Holistic Massage, Stone Therapy, Aromatherapy, Indian Head Massage, and Reflexology including Pregnancy and Post-Natal treatments at Holistyx, White Cross, Lancaster. Caring, intuitive, professional and effective. Take time out for your physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing.
Hypnobirthing: The Mongan Method
My name is Jean Anderson and I am an official, affiliated member of the HypnoBirthing® institute for your area. As a retired midwife, who worked within the NHS for 30 years , I have vast experience of hospital births, home births and childbirth education.
Independent Lancaster
Whether you're a retailer or a customer in the beautiful historic city of Lancaster, you'll know how important it is to support your local businesse
Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS)
A global hub of inquiry, teaching, and dialogue on enabling the transition to more fair and sustainable societies.
JD Mototech
Established in the tuning industry. Specialising in vehicle performance upgrades, vehicle diagnostics, and high quality repair and servicing.
Jean Palmer - Palmer Art Zone and Classes
Jean Palmer's art classes plus Lancashire Adult Learning classes. Group, 1-2-1 and step-by-step tuition in all art media.
Journey Social
Speciality coffee shop in Lancaster offering the best Lancastrian produce for Brunch and Lunch, with a focus on sustainability and ethical sourcing.
Julia Yates - Counsellor
I offer Counselling and Creative Expressive Art Therapy to individual clients and groups who want to work through emotional pain and trauma.
Klarem DIY Calculations Ltd
A software package that you can download to your PC, laptop or notebook to enable you to calculate the number of tiles you need to purchase for a particular DIY project. Designed to make difficult DIY calculations easy, even for those without any understanding of the maths involved.
Knight Time Creations - Jack Knight Graphics
Providing illustration and design services for a wide variety of images for businesses and individuals both locally in Lancashire and further afield.
Lancaster and Morecambe Makers
The Space* is a modern initiative for the centre of Lancaster offering a unique location for the members of the technological, manufacturing and digital industries to create and collaborate alongside members of the broader community.
Lancaster Area Salsa
Want to learn to dance but worried about taking the first step? Our friendly, supportive weekly salsa class will have you dancing in no time at all.
Lancaster Board and Sword
Lancaster Board and Sword: your one-stop shop for all your board gaming, war gaming and role-playing needs! We have a large selection of board games from classic titles through to the newest releases, a growing selection of war games from Warhammer through to Bolt Action, an in-store library of games available to be rented or played in store and a full-sized war gaming table complete with enough terrain to play pretty much any game!
Lancaster District Magazine
A quality publication available all over the Lancaster District and beyond packed with over 40 articles in each edition. Read the magazine online here.
Lancaster and Morecambe College Business Centre
Our conference facilities are located just off the M6 Motorway in Lancaster. From a half day company meeting to full day conferences, our Lancaster Business and Conference Facilities can meet all your needs.
Lancaster School of Tai Chi Chuan
Having studied Tai Chi both as an explosive Martial Art and as a rehabilitative programme for the elderly and infirm I teach right across the spectrum according to students needs.
Lancaster Youth For Environment (LYFE)
Today, young people across the globe are rising for their future. LYFE is a social movement in Lancaster (UK) which unites and empowers young people to engage in environmental and political issues locally.
Leonardini Gelato Boutique
Top quality ice cream, freshly handmade with the best natural ingredients, according to genuine Italian recipes. Wide range of innovative flavours!
LESS CIC
A not-for-profit Community Interest Company set up to provide practical support to help the residents of Lancashire live more sustainably.
Light Aware
LightAware is a registered charity which raises awareness of the effect of artificial lighting on health and wellbeing.
Little Greek Kitchen
Aut We are specialised in Greek and Cypriot street food and in fact we are the only place in Lancaster to do Greek pitta gyros, which is the most popular street food in Greece. On this web site you find the complete menu filled with mouth watering dishes delivered straight to your door.
Lucy Hampson - Therapist
Health & Wellbeing Therapist: Mind-body connection for healthy living.
Making Space
Delivering high quality care, support and enablement services for people with a range of physical and/or mental health conditions.
Montgomery Roofing
Lancaster based specialists in Slating, Tiling, Flat Roofing, Single Ply, Green Roofs and Insulation.
More Music
We believe in the power of music and culture to transform people's lives. We use many art forms with a focus on music and take our work out across the region and country and onto the international stage.
Morecambe Fringe Festival
In 2017 Matt Panesh was bored. He had just arrived in Morecambe and was looking for something to go and watch, a comedy club, a spoken word night, even a spot of theatre and there was none. In a town built for entertainment something needed to change, and thus, the Morecambe Fringe was born.
Northern School of Permaculture
Providing training and professional development services to build skills in productive, functional design. We take a holistic and ecological approach to design, based on the work of Bill Mollison and his Australian colleagues.
Organic Campaigns
Do you want to run powerful and compelling email lobbying campaigns? Our iparl email campaigning service helps you do this. Broadening your campaigning and fundraising reach.
Outrageous Ambition
We achieve our social objectives by developing high quality goods and services which have real economic worth and then by trading with individuals and organisations which share our social objectives.
Photo Baby
Beautiful photography for life: offering the highest quality portraiture photography with stunning and stylish results every time. Pregnancy, newborn photography, portraits of children and families. We capture the unique personality of the subject(s) perfectly.
Piccadilly Gardens
We offer a range of activities for people with a learning disability, based mainly in a horticultural and recycling environment, along with access to other community based opportunities.
Primed For Life
Advocates for a wider understanding of the body as a child's first place of learning and the crucial importance of movement play to all areas of children's development. We offer bespoke training, consultancy and creative residencies.
Printing.com
If you’re looking for fast full colour print you’ve come to the right place. Our Lancaster team love to design and will give you a fixed price quote for any artwork requirements you have.
QE Studio School
QEStudio aims to help our students at 14-19 to become the creative professionals who can fill the jobs in our local economy and so keep our rural community healthy and thriving. Our students get the best of ‘both worlds’ by having two schools that share the same site and the same ‘outstanding’ values: QEStudio can offer ‘technical’ qualifications while QES continues to offer traditional ‘academic’ qualifications.
Relic
We take plastic waste and make unique products we know people will cherish for a long time. We take plastic that has little to no value in the current recycling system and make new products out of it. Using our all-under-one-roof recycling system, we show that a circular economy is possible by taking plastic waste that has little to no value and making high-quality, handmade products that will stand the test of time.
Roberta Byram CBT Psychotherapist
Roots of Life
Roots of Life Events organise Wellness,Mind, Body & Spirit Events. Our aim is to inspire those drawn to a more Holistic approach to health & well-being.
S & J Lewis Landscaping
Providing a service for all types of gardening from hedge cutting to landscaping. Our aim is to give a quality service with a quality job that does not mean costly proces as all jobs are estimated and tailored to your budget.
Sales Marvel
Affordable Sales Expertise for SMEs. Our hybrid model of 1-2-1 coaching combined with expert sales content online means that Affordable sales expertise is now available to owners of “micro-businesses” and SMEs too.
Sarah Rachel Collins: Holistic Therapist
Holistic services and workshop facilitator. Available across Lancaster, Lancashire and Warrington, Cheshire.
SDG Changemakers
Making Sustainability Profitable: What we do: Make sustainability profitable: Customers, employees, investors and stakeholders want businesses to be socially, environmentally and financially sustainable. Businesses know their long-term profitability depends on it. Innovate using the SDGs: The drivers of innovation and economic development are also the drivers of a zero-carbon and sustainable future. Work with the Global Goals: The UN's 17 Global Goals, are the world's strategy for sustainability. We use the Goals to support innovation and economic development.
Sensible Internet
We specialise in creating bespoke digital marketing solutions for our clients. We use methods that allow your business to get seen by large audiences, whilst also enabling you to tightly target the customers you want the most.
Shadowcat Systems
We develop open source software and provide information technology consultation, specialising in the Perl programming language. We provide support for Perl 5 Core applications and the modules and libraries on CPAN.
Simon Grant
My interests are developing from e-portfolio technology and InLOC, towards technology to support people's development into the collaborative or sharing economy. I find satisfaction from bringing rich, complex and novel ideas from myself and others together, for practical applications.
Slithy Tove Design
Utilising a 3D-printer, CNC carver and a laser engraver, the plan is to fill a niche in the board game accessories market with innovative, quality items.
SMS Juice
Provides a range of business text messaging services. Our SMSJuice SMS API helps you to connect to our system and services from your own software and web-based applications. Our Java & PHP SDK/Wrappers simplify sending messages by making the most common tasks easier.
Social Ballance
Social Balance Consultancy works with social enterprises and other third sector organisations, enabling them to be more effective in fulfilling their values, social aims and business objectives. Services offered include:
Solution Focussed Therapy and Hypnotherapy - Anne Marie Flynn
Solution Focused Therapy helps with addictions, anxiety, stress ,depression, OCD, weight control, lack of confidence, insomnia, IBS, phobias and stress Different techniques are used to bring forth therapeutic change and importantly improve sleep patterns. Please ring or tex rather than use messenger. That way i can reply much quicker: 07789353424
Sue Garner
Yoga from the inside: classes, individual sessions, events and retreats. Rosen Bodywork.
Supper by Sanah
Welcome to Supper by Sanah. A family run business that has been at the heart of the City for the last 18 years. Being on the Charter Market and now having our own dine in restaurant, takeaway service and cooking academy we're proud to bring the best of Indian Cuisine to Lancaster.
Tailored Hearing Solutions
We are a family owned independent hearing care provider who thrives on providing the highest standard of clinical expertise and customer care. We understand the impact that hearing loss can have on day-to-day life and we will take the time to fully assess and understand your personal hearing requirements. We work out of our state-of-the-art hearing centre based on St Leonards Gate fully equipped with a consultation room that includes a purpose built soundproof booth. We also have several satellite clinics which we work out of and can also conduct home visits if required.
The Chamber
Supporting business throughout the Lancaster district. There are many opportunities within the Chamber for you to develop your business. Whether you have an established business, are thinking about relocating to the Lancaster district, or starting a new enterprise.
The Cumberland Bank (Lancaster Branch)
The Cumberland Building Society is a mutual organisation, owned entirely by its savers, borrowers and current account holders. As a mutual organisation, we do not need to maximise profit for external shareholders and the Society is run in the best long-term interest of its members.
The Dukes
The only building-based professional producing theatre in Lancashire. The Dukes has been an independent cinema since it opened in 1971. Our Creative Learning Department is rated outstanding by Arts Council England. The Dukes is a registered charity.
The Exchange Creative Community CIC
We seek to promote the creative talent that exists within the local area. We sell locally made art, crafts and gifts, exhibiting and raising funds through sales to deliver creative workshops free to access for the local community.
The FIG Tree: Fair Trade Chocolate
We are a not-for-profit Community Interest Company mzking and bean to bar chocolate. We also have a travelling Fair Trade exhibition and run events and educational workshops.
The Lost Art of Living Festival
Lancaster's major anual Health Festival takes place every September as part of UHMBT's Better Care Together program.. Fun, food, and serious conversation as people start shaping a more healthy and satisfying future.
The Marketing Power Hour
Do you want to use the power of your brand to create a better world? Customers are increasingly making buying decisions based on what brands are saying and doing in the social impact space. The Marketing Power Hour is leading the charge by helping businesses embed purpose throughout their organisations with a fresh, authentic approach. Empowering organisations to be brave, creative and innovative, The Marketing Power Hour is a unique marketing and communications partner that thinks outside the box to help your organisation develop and grow.
The Open Source Guild
The open source guild is a mechanism that enables freelance workers and micro-businesses with shared values to collaborate and benefit from a larger network. It has been developed by Justin Larner as part of his PhD research at Lancaster University.
The Shared Value Business
The Shared Value Business offers over two decades experience in helping organisations adapt to changing operating environments. We partner with our clients from start to finish, focusing on their needs to create bespoke solutions to benefit performance, reputation and turnover.
The Small Green Consultancy
Organisational development as if people mattered. The Small Green Consultancy offers creative solutions to social and environmental businesses and organisations to help them reach their potential (rather than simply ‘grow’) whilst operating within an ethical framework.
The West End Playhouse
A pop-up venue with drop in sessions,performance workshops, comedy and storytelling nights, a talent agency to promote clients work around the world. Boldly going where no one has gone before.
Thriving Planet CIC
Lets make a thriving planet
"What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now?’ And if you’re not working on that, why aren't you?” Aaron Swartz
TP Financial Solutions
TP Financial Solutions are a financial advice firm based in the lovely Morecambe Bay. Owned and run by locals: Annabel Lumsden and Tarnia Elsworth. Their ethos is: We want TPFS to contribute to positive change in our local community. Their social values run through the company, with community support at its heart. They help local people with their pension, investment and insurance needs. Environmental, Social and Governance Investing isn’t an afterthought here, it is embedded in our options and processes.
Trade Route
Alison has been selling fairtrade and local crafts in Lancaster's Saturday market for 17 years. On her stall we find fair trade crafts and rugs, clothes, ornaments and lots more, along with funky jewelry and many more suprises.
Trybooking
Streamline your events and sell tickets online with the most affordable event ticketing platform. From small gatherings to large festivals, our easy to use online event booking software has you covered!
UK Business Academy
Looking for one-on-one coaching help? Coaching is NEVER an expense. It's one of the smartest investments any small business owner will ever make when it comes to building a successful business.
Unique Kids and Co
Unique Kidz and Co provides specialist services for disabled children and their families. We now support over 120 children with a range of disabilities, allowing parents and carers to return to work or education, spend time with other family members, or have some much needed respite.
Virtual Lancaster
An informative guide to the area, with both the local community and visitors in mind. Our aim is to develop a locally-based Internet Site which will be useful, Encourage and support local talent and initiatives and the development of an online community.
Walmsley Financial Planning
Walmsley Financial Planning was created by Peter Walmsley back in 2015. He has built the business around his ethos on life. When it comes to planning for the future, Pete’s moto is “It’s important to plan for the future, but you’ve got to enjoy the journey
Wax Massage Therapy
Wax Massage Therapy offers high quality clinical massage therapy treatments in the Lancaster area. Our techniques are brilliant for anyone in pain or discomfort, and also just as wonderful for anyone who wants some down time while experiencing bodywork at its best!
Well Being Therapies
Alternative and complementary health therapies. Upledger CranioSacral Therapy, Paediatric CranioSacral Therapy, Therapeutic Massage, Reiki, Yoga~4~Health.
Wellbeing Economy Alliance
A new global collaboration of organisations, alliances movements and individuals - working together to change the economic system. Its time for a wellbeing economy: one that delivers human and ecological wellbeing.
World Health Innovation Summit (WHIS)
Empowering people and communities to improve their health and wellbeing. Based in the heart of Cumbria [UK] WHIS enables people in the community to co-create more holistic and accessible health solutions, in their locality.
Yoga on Paper
What is Yoga on Paper? Art that's packed with therapeutic value!
You Naturally Counselling
As a counselling service we want to make counselling as ‘normal’ as buying a new handbag or going to the gym. Why shouldn’t you invest in your mental health like you may do your physical health, looks and outward appearance.