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CottonmouthMCR is a place to discuss the issues affecting the Manchester city centre business community.
Through our podcasts, we take a positive outlook on our great city, reflecting on growth, change and innovation. We also provide some background material that will help businesses deal with some of the big issues facing them.
We look at some serious issues such as rough sleeping, security and transport. We talk about the history of the city centre (including in some surprising ways). And we interview major players in the city, from cultural to business to political leaders.
If there’s anything you’d like to see covered that could help your business, please contact us.
CottonmouthMCR is brought to you by CityCo, The City Centre Management Company.
The series is hosted by Vaughan Allen, Chief Exec of CityC0 & Manchester City Centre Business Improvement District.
The theme is an edit of ‘Hoodratz mix ‘93’ by Richard Jonas from freemusicarchive. It is used under an attribution, non commercial, sharealike licence.
Talking greening Manchester city centre and environmental issues more widely.
Announcing Beyond the Music. Launched in SXSW, we have the (near) EXCLUSIVE details of the October 2023 city centre music conference and festival taking over Manchester.
How have hotels managed this past year? What are they looking forward to in reopening? What issues are hotels are going to face? What are the prospects looking forward?
What’s happened to film and to tabletop gaming; experiences where you’re MEANT to be with other people. And what’s happened with video gaming, which already was designed to be experienced at home?
Chatting here with old friends of the pod Ruth Allan of Manchester Wire and Thom Hetherington of Northern Restaurant and Bar about how the sector has tried to survive, what changes will result and what openings in Manchester they’re looking forward to over the next few months.
Talking about museums and theatres in the post-Covid age. With Julia Fawcett of the Lowry Theatre and Gallery, Esme Ward of Manchester Museum and Sally MacDonald of the Science and Industry Museum, Manchester.
So is the city centre office dead? Is ‘Working from Home’ the way, the truth and the light for the Post-Covid era? Not according to our guests from Pro-Manchester, Bruntwood and CBRE.
Coinciding with re-opening of non-essential retail, we’re talking to three General and Area Managers within retail and hospitality from Selfridges, Primark and Costa Coffee.
Talking to Manchester chef Mary-Ellen McTague about mobilising friends and colleagues to cook for Wythenshawe Hospital and the EatWell MCR group that resulted.
Talking to Jemma Hynes of FoodSync and the Manchester Food Network about what they’ve been doing to connect producers and suppliers with those in need during the crisis.
Talking to Shaun Hinds of Manchester Central about the immediate effect of the virus on their business, the astonishing transformation of the building into a Nightingale Hospital and what might happen next.
Talking to the leader of Manchester City Council about how the council’s continuing to operate, how they’re delivering services, what support there is for business (and what businesses need to do), and what more help is needed.