Earlier this week I attended a great event at The Portico Library with Cllr Garry Bridges and GM Mayor Andy Burnham to focus on developing & funding a great plan called #PorticoReunited to preserve and develop this unique Mcr facility.

#ChristmasFeast
🏛️ @porticolibrary.bsky.social 📚
Fab event by Chef #JoeFenn & his team. Hosted by Dr Thom Keep, CEO & yours truly Chair, Public Programme Committee.
Exciting times #PorticoReunited is an £11 m capital project that will transform & #futureproof our Grade II* listed building.

Its return is both an act of generosity and a symbol of #PorticoReunited — our £11 million National Lottery Heritage Fund-supported project to restore, reunite, and transform Manchester’s home of literature and learning...

Photo shows black & purple scarf & hat, a copy of Subterranea magazine & a black crochet spider with googly eyes.

A luvverly day in the company of @philcat92.bsky.social at Manchester Art Gallery,
with cake, Goffik scarf, hat & magazines about plonking about in tunnels!💜

If that wasn’t enough, to @porticolibrary.bsky.social to hear all about the #porticoreunited plans!

#PorticoReunited
This once-in-a-lifetime project will reunite all 3 floors of the Portico for the first time in over a century via a lift, creating the UK’s most sustainable historic library – a place for heritage, literature, creativity & community.
www.theportico.org.uk/reuniting-po...