North West England · Local installer
Induction loop & Auracast installation in Greater Manchester
Hearing System UK is a Wrexham-based specialist installer of hearing enhancement systems, covering councils, theatres, churches, schools, transport hubs and historic venues right across Greater Manchester. We design, install and certify to BS 8300 and IEC 60118-4.
Hearing access in Greater Manchester
A 2.8 million-person city region with one of the densest concentrations of public-facing venues in the UK, from the Bridgewater Hall through to ten separate council customer service estates. Every public-facing venue in Greater Manchester, from a parish church to the largest civic auditorium, carries a duty under the Equality Act 2010 to make "reasonable adjustments" for people with hearing loss. For most spaces with amplified speech, that means a working, signed and field-strength-tested hearing enhancement system.
We're set up to serve every category of venue across the county: council buildings and customer-service estates, the heritage and visitor sector, churches and chapels, schools and colleges, and private operators. Whether you're specifying a counter loop for a single reception desk, retrofitting a large theatre or building a hybrid loop+Auracast system into a major refurbishment, we'll survey it, design it, install it and commission it to documented standard.
Venue types in Greater Manchester that need compliant hearing access
Theatres & concert halls
Major performance venues like The Bridgewater Hall, HOME Manchester, the Royal Exchange Theatre, AO Arena, the Lowry Salford and Bury Met are exactly the kind of spaces that need full hearing-loop or Auracast provision in performance and front-of-house areas.
Civic & council buildings
Manchester Town Hall (Albert Square), Salford Civic Centre, Stockport Town Hall, Bolton Town Hall and the council chambers of all ten boroughs.
Healthcare
Manchester Royal Infirmary, Salford Royal, Wythenshawe and Stepping Hill, reception desks, outpatient waiting areas and clinical consultation rooms benefit from counter and personal loops.
Transport hubs
Manchester Piccadilly, Victoria and Oxford Road stations, Manchester Airport terminals and the Metrolink customer service points.
Education
University of Manchester, MMU and Salford University lecture theatres and student services.
Faith & community
Manchester Cathedral, Manchester Central Convention Complex, parish churches across all ten boroughs and a large mosque, gurdwara and synagogue estate.
Services available across Greater Manchester
- Counter and reception loops: ticket offices, customer service desks, GP receptions, library issue points, pharmacy counters
- Perimeter room loops: meeting rooms, classrooms, courtrooms, function rooms, chapels (up to ~200 m²)
- Multi-loop array systems: theatres, cathedrals, sports halls, civic chambers and large performance venues
- Auracast / Bluetooth LE Audio: permanent installs and our Auri Mobile System for events, pop-ups and trial deployments
- Hybrid loop + Auracast: designed in from day one for new builds and major refurbishments
- Service & re-certification: annual visits, field-strength re-test and re-issued IEC 60118-4 documentation, including for systems we didn't originally install
Read more on our Induction Loops and Auracast / Auri Mobile System pages, or see the Legislation & Compliance guide for the standards your Greater Manchester venue is being measured against.
Why Greater Manchester is moving to hybrid loop + Auracast
Bluetooth LE Audio, and its Auracast broadcast feature, is the biggest change to hearing accessibility in 40 years. The first Auracast hearing aids reached the UK in 2024. By 2030, almost every new hearing aid sold will support it. That puts Greater Manchester venues commissioning systems today in a particular position: a loop-only install will reach the millions of T-coil hearing-aid users in the population now, but won't serve a buyer with a 2027 hearing aid five years from now.
Our standard recommendation for any new build or major refurbishment in Greater Manchester is a hybrid: induction loop for the established T-coil base, Auracast for the rapidly-expanding next-generation receiver base. We can design, install and commission both in a single visit, with one signed-off documentation package.
Nearby counties we also cover: Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside.