The Warehouse Project Inspired by the success of events at Home and Sankeys nightclubs in Manchester, Lord launched
the Warehouse Project, a series of rave events running annually from September to 1 January, in 2006 with co-founder Sam Kandel. It began operations in the disused
Boddingtons Brewery in
Strangeways, and then moved into a space under
Manchester Piccadilly station, on Store Street, which previously served as an air raid shelter. The opening night of The Warehouse Project was described by Lord as "a nightmare" due to its location next to the prison, and he later revealed the Governor of
HM Prison Manchester had called to say it was disturbing inmates. In 2019, Lord and Kandel moved The Warehouse Project to Depot at the former
Manchester Mayfield railway station, a move which saw it become the biggest club night in the UK with a 10,000 person capacity. The move also put it on a par with the current
Guinness World Record holder of the largest nightclub in the world,
Privilege in Ibiza, which can also hold 10,000 revellers. Lord has been a supporter for drug safety campaigns and has called for drug testing laboratories and on site forensic testing at all UK clubs and festivals. Although not responsible for the incident, to
Heaton Park, Manchester in 2012, attracts 80,000 visitors each year. The Festival employs over 4,500 people over the weekend. Each year, it raises over £100k for the Parklife Community Foundation, that is distributed to help local causes. Parklife Festival was cancelled in 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic and rescheduled to September 2021 following the easing of lockdown restrictions. In July 2024, it was announced that Sacha Lord had exited The Warehouse Project and Parklife. In a statement, Lord confirmed that he would be exiting the two businesses he co-founded, following a deal to transfer his shares to LN Gaiety — a joint venture between
Live Nation and Gaiety Investments which acquired a majority share in the businesses in 2016.
Hide Out Festival Lord was one of the creators of Croatia's
Hideout Festival, a five-day alternative music extravaganza held on the island of
Pag, in 2011. It has sold out every single year since its conception.
Wythenshawe F.C. In April 2023, Lord was announced as the new chairman of newly promoted
non-league football club
Wythenshawe F.C. Primary Events Solutions In 2021, Primary Event Solutions (originally named Primary Security Limited), a company in which Lord was founding director and 30% shareholder, received a £401,928 grant from
Arts Council England’s Culture Recovery Fund to support cultural activity during the
COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2024, Arts Council England announced it would conduct additional checks on the application after Manchester newspaper
The Mill published investigative reporting alleging that the application included exaggerated descriptions of the company’s services and cited economic impact figures attributed to the
Greater Manchester Combined Authority that the authority said it did not recognise. Prolific North later reported that Lord had threatened
The Mill with a libel action before subsequently withdrawing that threat. In reporting published during a review of the grant award,
The Mill said the
Culture Recovery Fund application described Primary Event Solutions as providing a range of event services including “event coordinators, managers, production managers, assistants, technicians, sound engineers, lighting engineers, AV, bar staff… and more”, but quoted former directors and staff who said they only recalled the business operating as a security company and not providing such specialist services. Following an eight-month review, Arts Council England withdrew the grant and stated it was seeking to recover the funds after concluding that the application breached the terms and conditions by supplying information that was “wrong or misleading, either by mistake or because you were trying to mislead us”, a clause the council said did not require it to determine whether the misleading information was supplied deliberately. Lord acknowledged that there were inaccuracies in the application and described them as “unintended oversights”, but stated that the Arts Council did not find evidence that the company had “deliberately misled” the funding body. As a result of the Arts Council’s decision, Lord resigned from his position as Night Time Economy Adviser to Mayor
Andy Burnham in January 2025. In February 2026, Lord said that government-appointed reviewers had found no evidence of wrongdoing. Writing about the dispute in the
Evening Standard, he criticised what he described as unclear guidance and limited engagement from Arts Council England during the process, and said the experience "showed how punitive and exhausting funding processes can become in practice, even when no wrongdoing is ultimately found". After Lord published his piece in the
Evening Standard, Arts Council England reiterated to
The Mill and other publications that its review had found Primary Event Solutions had
“indeed, deliberately or involuntarily, mislead” the council, and that it had ruled the company must repay the £401,928 award. As of February 2026, Arts Council England had not recovered the £401,928 and stated that “no funds remain with which to repay the debt” and that, as the company no longer exists as a trading entity following the completion of its liquidation on 11 February 2025, it was “determining our next steps”. ==Night Time Economy Adviser==