Blog · 12 August 2021
I’ve always loved being outside and have always been interested in gardening. My great-grandad was a keen gardener and we think I inherited his green fingers.
News · 8 August 2021
It’s been a busy couple of months for new Cabinet Member, Councillor Harry Doyle. With a brief covering culture and visitor economy, it’s a demanding and high profile portfolio. Read how he is getting to grips with all things culture and his reaction to attending his first event in his new role. When I took
Blog · 6 August 2021
As young girls, part of growing up is gazing at the glossy magazines, dreaming about the world the women featured in its colourful pages, live in.
Blog · 3 August 2021
Beryl Bellew is a founding volunteer at the North Liverpool Foodbank. She has been writing a monthly blog since January 2020. This is her final entry… As we approached Freedom Day on 19 July the CEO of our Community Network wrote to all of our Foodbanks to advise us of the changes but also to ask
News · 1 August 2021
Mayor of Liverpool Joanne Anderson reflects on what a difference a week makes, and talks about her pride that the prestigious Turner Prize is returning to the city. Another week, another announcement for Liverpool – but a very different one this time. The news that the Turner Prize is returning to Liverpool – on our
News · 31 July 2021
Culture Liverpool’s Head of Creative, Robin Kemp, talks about the city’s latest cultural campaign Very Public Art, which is all about injecting some colour and vitality into the city after the dark days of lockdown and living through a pandemic. If you cast your mind back to January, things were pretty bleak. We were in
News · 22 July 2021
Liverpool’s City Halls manager, Alan Smith, questions the decision to strip Liverpool of its UNESCO World Heritage Site status – after all, the city is brimming with an enviable amount of incredible architecture and heritage. Liverpool was granted UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2004, the city joined a select group of world sites, recognised
News · 21 July 2021
Liverpool City Council’s Director of Communications, Camilla Mankabady, talks about the city’s new campaign which aims to get people talking about Liverpool for all the right reasons. After weeks of speculation, the inevitable has happened. Liverpool has lost its UNESCO World Heritage Status. We are sad, we are baffled, but we are still proud Scousers.
News · 21 July 2021
Director of Culture Liverpool, Claire McColgan, responds to the news Liverpool is no longer a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but says this great city doesn’t need a label. When Liverpool started the process of securing World Heritage Site status around 2001, it was during a time when the city was gearing up to be European
Blog · 21 July 2021
Mayor of Liverpool, Joanne Anderson, responds to UNESCO's decision to remove the city from the list of World Heritage sites.
News · 12 July 2021
As Liverpool bids a fond farewell to adopted scouser Vasily Petrenko, Head of UNESCO City of Music, Kevin McManus, reflects on the mark this ambassador has left on the place he called home for 15 years. Vasily Petrenko has just ended his glorious 15 year reign as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Chief Conductor after a final
Blog · 4 July 2021
Beryl Bellew is a founding volunteer at the North Liverpool Foodbank. This month, she explains how the generosity of Liverpool keeps the foodbank serving the community… Throughout my time at Foodbank I never ceased to be amazed at the generous giving by individuals in the community and by corporate organisations, whether it be food, financial or
Blog · 2 July 2021
“We have seen a steady increase this year on those thinking about fostering, our enquiry rates continue to rise, but there is so much more to do.” Stuart Williams, Service Manager. Stuart Williams, Service Manager, Fostering, Adoption and Residential Care Services takes time out to reflect on the delivery of the Foster Care campaign and
News · 18 June 2021
In a heartfelt blog, Mayor Joanne Anderson reflects on the last year and makes a plea for people to put their health and wellbeing first. Burnt-out, dog-tired, agitated. Just three feelings you might be experiencing after a 15 months like no other. From the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic, when it all felt quite
Blog · 1 June 2021
Beryl Bellew is a founding volunteer at the North Liverpool Foodbank. Beryl explains the stigma and then relief people feel when visiting a food bank of the first time and also the role that the Pantry plays… April “I told you they’d help you out and they don’t make you feel at all embarrassed,” so
Blog · 25 May 2021
Mayor Joanne Anderson reflects on racial inequality on the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death, which sparked the worldwide Black Lives Matter movement.
Blog · 18 May 2021
Jack Coutts, co-ordinator for the Liverpool City Region’s Dementia Action Week events programme, sets out what a dementia friendly Liverpool would look like and why it matters. What people with dementia need – and increasingly demand – is that the world which is shaped and run with the fit and able in mind, should also
News · 4 May 2021
Scientific researchers from the University of Liverpool explain what they hope the Events Research Programme will achieve.
Blog · 30 April 2021
Kev McManus, Head of Liverpool UNESCO City of Music, explains why the city is ideally placed to be part of the national Events Research Programme.
Blog · 6 April 2021
Beryl Bellew is a founding volunteer at the North Liverpool Foodbank. This month, Beryl explains how the Foodbank helps out with more than food. “All users of our Foodbank bring with them a voucher or e-referral reference number. This is provided by any support agency or professional who is supporting them. The voucher provides us
