The first tickets have been released for Manchester International Festival 2021
Visitors can now book for six events held as part of the world-famous biennial arts festival between July 1 and 18
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With little over six weeks to go to the city s biggest celebration of arts and culture, residents can now snap up the first tickets to Manchester International Festival. The Festival returns across the city and online from July 1-18. From a giant sculpture of Big Ben in Piccadilly Gardens made from 20,000 books to an exhibition in the sky, much of this year’s Festival is free to attend - with more work than ever in public spaces around the city.
Mobilityways nationwide commute intentions survey reveals potential green dividend for UK firms as CO2e from commuting is set to drop by 26% from pre-pandemic levels
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Mobilityways Commuter Census survey reveals 26.2% of workers plan to remain working from home post-pandemic, whereas only 4.4% were WFH pre-COVID
UK firms can look forward to a green dividend, as over a quarter (26%) of their staff look set to remain working from home post-pandemic, if companies allow staff who express the desire to remain working from home are allowed to do so.
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This green dividend amounts to a substantial reduction in CO2e emissions, equivalent to 4.5m commuters switching from Diesel to Electric Vehicles or 1.7m homes converting to zero emission heating before the end of this year.
by David Prior
Greater Manchester-based data integration company Matillion has raised more than $100million (£72m) in Series D funding.
The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and joined by Battery Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Bank Capital.
The company, which is headquartered in Altrincham, has now raised a total of $160m over four funding rounds.
Its latest figures, for the year to the end of December 31st 2019, showed that the company grew turnover by 64% to $16.05m, with a loss of $15.7m.
The Matillion cloud platform extracts and transforms data so that it’s ready to use and accessible from anywhere with an internet connection.
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