Manchester City Council are currently dropping around letters to inform businesses about this year’s Christmas Markets set-up. The markets will trade each day from 10th November to 20th December.
Manchester BID has commissioned Biffa to deliver additional street cleansing across the Business Improvement District in the run-up to the festive season. Extra cleaning of pavements, doorways and commercial waste collection points is underway.
Following our deep-clean of Piccadilly Approach with partners Biffa, Greater Manchester Police, Manchester City Council and Street Support, CityCo’s Operations Team coordinated another day of action on 20th September around Piccadilly Gardens and Market Street.
Manchester’s ultimate student shopping night returns on Tuesday 26 September with more than 200 stores across Manchester city centre offering up to 30% off exclusively for students for one night only.
Big Change MCR launched last year to share ways people can help the homeless and rough sleepers in Manchester. Local creative agency Dinosaur has produced a short film to highlight the ways to support. The video is voiced by Elbow front man Guy Garvey.
Following the success of the city’s first ever official Halloween celebrations in 2016, Manchester BID, the city centre’s Business Improvement District, has cooked up a whole host of activities to both fright and delight.
As a member of the Rockefeller Institute’s 100 Resilient Cities network Greater Manchester has pledged to be a leading proponent of urban resilience and nowhere are the challenges faced more acutely, than across the centre of the city.
The #citysession, titled Futureshock – The Resilient City, will bring together leading academics and frontline practitioners in the fields of counter terrorism, homelessness, climate change and future urban planning to explore issues that will face the city over the coming years.
The Manchester Picnic, manchester jazz festival, Clownfest Manchester and the city’s retailers come together to host a weekend of family fun in the heart of the city, 28th – 30th July.
From Saturday 8 – Monday 10 July there will be industrial strike action on Northern train services. Northern expect to…
We talk to Eleanor Watts of Riverside Housing, ex-rough sleeper Jo Wilson and Alex King of CityCo about the rise in rough sleeping in Manchester city centre, the impact of Spice and what people can do to help.
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