British singer Robbie Williams has become the largest investor in Tickets For Good, a platform that provides free and discounted tickets for events to NHS and charity sector workers. Following a seed funding round, £500,000 (€581,000/$628,000) of investment capital has been secured for Tickets For Good. Williams joins existing investors Bethnal Green Ventures and US …
WeGotTickets relaunches its ‘Ticket Fund’ campaign for 2023
Ticket platform WeGotTickets has relaunched its campaign to raise money for the ‘Ticket Fund’ with Tickets for Good. The scheme is hoping to build on the £40,000 that has been raised since launching in 2021, which includes £25,000 from 2022 alone. The money is raised via an optional donation for users of WeGotTickets and has …
Tickets for Good celebrates major year in 2022
Tickets for Good has revealed a major year of growth in 2022 and announced new projects for 2023. The platform initially began with its ‘Ticket Bank’ project in 2019 before the Tickets for Good NHS platform was introduced in May 2021, to offer key workers from the pandemic tickets to events. Since its launch, the …
Tramlines Trusts supports local charities and funds Sheffield economy
The Tramlines Trust, which was created this year by the organisers of Tramlines festival, has distributed over £30,000 ($36,000/€35,000) to local groups and beneficiaries. The festival also brought in almost £4m to the local economy in 2022, according to research. An independent report from Bluegrass Research and Sheffield City Council demonstrated that Tramlines festival, which …
TheTicketingBusiness Forum Review: ‘Business as (un)usual’
The opening session of TheTicketingBusiness Forum 2022 highlighted how it is ‘business as (un)usual’ in an industry grappling with the pressures of the pandemic, staffing shortages and a squeeze on spending in many markets. Doing ‘more with less’ was in fact a theme that persisted throughout two days of busy networking at Emirates Old Trafford …
Winners of TheTicketingBusiness Awards 2022 are announced
The winners of TheTicketingBusiness Awards 2022 were announced tonight at Emirates Old Trafford in Manchester, UK. TheTicketingBusiness Awards (previously the Ticketing Technology Awards) are the only awards to recognise a whole spectrum of achievements from across the global entertainment ticketing industry. The awards ceremony took place during the 10th edition of TheTicketingBusiness Forum in front …
Tickets for Good celebrates landmark figure
Tickets for Good has reached a landmark figure, with over 100,000 NHS staff and frontline workers having registered to the service, receiving savings of over £2m (€2.4m/$2.38m) in face-value tickets. The feel-good ticketing company has so far registered thousands of key workers including those in the charity sector, teachers and carers, as well as the …
Cambridge Club Festival donates tickets to Ukrainian refugees
The Cambridge Club Festival has expanded its work with Tickets for Good in a move that will see more than 100 tickets given to Ukrainian refugees and the charity workers who are helping them. Tickets for Good and the festival, which takes place this coming weekend and will feature Diana Ross, have jointly funded free …