Blog · 28 April 2020
After a five year stint in prison, 38-year old Chris Brown turned his life around — vowing to give something back to the city he loves… “My name is Christopher Brown. I am a father of three from Liverpool and the founder of Holiday Hunger, a community interest company. My business is feeding the most
Blog · 28 April 2020
The COVID-19 crisis — and resulting national lockdown — has gifted all of us with more time to spend at home. And what better way to relax and escape the stresses and strains of the world than by dipping into a book — says Councillor Barbara Murray, the brains behind Liverpool’s 2020 Year of Reading.
Blog · 28 April 2020
Pat Evans is a born and bred Scouser who’s been working with Liverpool City Council since September 1981. She started out in the Social Services Juvenile Court Section, before moving onto the Register Office five years later. Registering deaths is a big part of the day job and Covid-19 has brought with it new challenges
Blog · 26 April 2020
My name is Simon Huthwaite and I am the Operations Manager for St Andrew’s Community Network. The network is the home of North Liverpool Foodbank. We provide three-day emergency food parcels to people in crisis across the north end of the city in partnership with the Trussell Trust. As I’m sure you can imagine, since
News · 27 March 2020
Food banks are sadly becoming an important – and vital – part of our communities in Liverpool. For the next 12 months, Liverpool City Council’s Communications team will be shining a spotlight on the most used food bank in our city. We want to chronicle the daily reality for thousands of men, women and children across Liverpool.
News · 9 March 2020
As Liverpool enters the 2020s, we take a look at the plans and schemes which are set to shape the city for the decade ahead. In many ways this is a pivotal year as a series of transformational developments are set to begin – or complete – which will transform Liverpool well into the 21st century.
Blog · 26 February 2020
Whilst still a relatively new phenomenon, the latest economic data is starting to shed a light on how the gig economy is manifesting itself within Liverpool. The world of work is changing Technological developments over the last decade have revolutionised how we all live, work and spend money. With nearly 80% of the population now
Blog · 23 February 2020
Is 2020 the right time for council’s to start using TikTok for marketing and resident engagement? The short answer is a definite yes but let me explain more. At Liverpool City Council we first toyed with using TikTok back in May 2019 but at the time it just didn’t feel like the right platform for our
Blog · 20 February 2020
Food banks are sadly becoming an important – and vital – part of our communities in Liverpool. For the next 12 months, Liverpool City Council’s Communications team will be shining a spotlight on the most used food bank in our city. We want to chronicle the daily reality for thousands of men, women and children
Blog · 31 January 2020
Food banks are sadly becoming an important - and vital - part of our communities. We want to chronicle the daily reality for thousands of men, women and children across Liverpool.
Blog · 29 January 2020
In Britain, when we talk of female leaders and female leadership we often think of Tory politicians or our nation’s longest serving monarch. Our earliest story books often served up tales of feisty women who ruled the age or were revered in their time. But why then do so many women feel that they can’t
Blog · 17 January 2020
Jennifer Bruce — video journalist, Liverpool City Council Not sending your child to school every day? Unfortunately, you’re not the only one. And it all adds up. Massively. Every year in Liverpool, more than 500,000 school days are lost to absenteeism, and almost half of those are unauthorised. Quantitatively this means we’re below the national average for school
Blog · 17 January 2020
A look at what lies ahead for Liverpool’s taxi trade in 2020 Kevin Johnson, Liverpool Council’s City Manager If 20 years ago you’d have said to your cabbie, soon you’ll be driving around in electric cars, you’d have probably have been met with a healthy degree of scepticism. You might have got the old suspicious glance
Blog · 14 January 2020
Liverpool playwright, BAFTA and International Emmy Award winning screenwriter, Helen Blakeman, shares her story from childhood dreams to international success. Liverpool is a city of writers, especially for screen. But being a writer is not what I grew up thinking that I could become. In fact, age 5, when asked what I wanted to be
Blog · 6 December 2019
Why cleaning up the air matters to Liverpool “For the past couple of months I have been immersed in the world of air pollution and clean air planning, finding out about the work that has been done by the city council to measure the quality of air in the city and look at the possible
Blog · 10 October 2019
Earlier this year, Liverpool City Council’s Director of Adult Services Martin Farran shared his personal mental health story on how his son Joey’s eating disorder affected him and his family. For World Mental Health Day, we caught up with Martin’s son Joey, to hear his side of things. Joey Farran “I’ve spent a long time
Blog · 9 October 2019
A delegation from Liverpool will be in the city of London next week sharing all the latest exciting plans and developments that are taking place across the city. MIPM UK is a great example of private-public partnership. Two of the delegates representing Liverpool will be the new Liverpool MIPM chair Stephen Cowperthwaite and Liverpool City Council’s
Blog · 8 October 2019
Liverpool City Council is showing its commitment to helping to protect vulnerable residents and service users from the flu, by embarking on a programme to administer vaccinations to 500 staff who work on the frontline in social care, or who provide essential services. Flu Vaccine Overview Clinics started last week, ahead of the launch of
Blog · 3 October 2019
Our communications manager, Michael Doran, shares the power of poetry… Shakespeare. Milton. Keats. Wordsworth. Coleridge. Yeats. Shelley. Byron. McGough. Henri. Patten. Carroll. Burns. Heaney. When you think of poems, it’s often one of the greats whose wordplay will most readily spring to mind. Not me. My first real brush with the power of poetry was
Blog · 2 October 2019
With a global reputation for musical excellence spanning more than a century, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the city’s most celebrated cultural institutions. But away from sell-out concerts and award-winning arrangements, the Liverpool Phil is building a reputation for harnessing the power of music for an altogether different purpose. Supported by an annual
