We were delighted to gather at the beautiful Sefton Park Palm House to acknowledge and celebrate companies and entrepreneurs that have made a successful and significant contribution to economic growth in the city region.
Downtown in Business is delighted to announce Nugent as the headline sponsor for the prestigious City of Manchester Business Awards (COMBA) 2025.
The Downtown in Business annual Change Makers Live Conference will take place on Thursday 2nd October, at Everton Football Clubs new ground, the Hill Dickinson Stadium.
The 23rd annual ‘Livercool’ awards gala dinner will take place at the superb Crowne Plaza Hotel on the evening of Thursday 20th November – and the nominations for the awards that celebrate the achievements of outstanding individuals from across the city and the wider city-region will be revealed next week.
The NATO summit and Daddy Trump, the fallout from Americas bombing raids in Iran, antisemitism at Glastonbury, and the BBC continuing its love-in with Reform UK.
Do we have a government that is good at getting things done- but bad at politics?
On Wednesday 25th June, Downtown in Business hosted another insightful edition of our ‘In Conversation with…’ dinner series in Birmingham, welcoming Richard Lawrence, the newly appointed Executive Director of Place, Prosperity and Sustainability at Birmingham City Council
Downtown in Business was delighted to kick off Housing 2025 with two standout events in Manchester, bringing together leaders and innovators from across the housing, property, and regeneration sectors.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Pre-Conference Dinner and Parliamentary Reception, two impactful events that brought the Liverpool City Region to the heart of Westminster and helped build momentum for even stronger collaboration and progress
Join the Conversation: Northern Power Towns Conference to Champion Growth and Investment Across the North
The government is launching a ten year industrial strategy this week, will Labour get any credit for its longer term approach to the country’s problems- and might a certain mayor from Manchester be able to help them tell their story more positively?
Donald Trump decided to bomb Iran. Was the President simply pissed off with his TACO reputation- Trump Always Chickens Out- or has he got a longer term plan for the Middle East- and where does the unilateral action from the States and Israel leave international institutions? Are NATO and the UN now simply moribund, outdated, talking shops?
