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Greater Manchester welcomes India High Commissioner to the UK, in first visit outside of London
Local Civic and business leaders welcomed His Excellency, Mr Vikram Doraiswami India High Commissioner in the UK, to Greater Manchester on Friday 13th January, for meetings to highlight and celebrate the importance of India to the city-region and explore opportunities...
Multi-million-pound Greater Manchester Institute Of Technology will open in September 2023
A new multi-million-pound technical education institute in Greater Manchester will open to students in September 2023, after being granted a licence by the Department for Education. The Greater Manchester Institute of Technology (GMIoT) will specialise in...
Manchester spin-out revolutionising water filtration gets £500,000 funding boost to scale up
Molymem, a spin-out company based at The University of Manchester that is developing a breakthrough water filtration technology, has secured SEED equity investment of £500,000 to help scale up. The business utilises the benefits of new materials in the membrane...
Cllr Bev Craig responds to Centre for Cities “At the frontier” report
Think tank Centre for Cities has published a report – At the frontier: The geography of the UK’s new economy – which maps out the geography of knowledge-intensive sectors and calls for the creation of a £14.5 billion growth package to support innovation districts in...
Arts, culture, heritage, nature, and environment collaboration could add £2.7bn to Northern Economy
Arts, culture, heritage, nature and environment working together could provide an extra £2.7bn to the Northern economy, helping to tackle the cost-of-living crisis and regenerate the North, including Greater Manchester. This is according to the NP11 group, a...
Manchester and Salford named UK’s most generous cities
Manchester has been named the UK's most generous city for charitable donations for the second year running, with Salford coming in second place The accolade is based on donations made on the fundraising site GoFundMe. Figures released by the fundraising...