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Black History Month logo

News · 28 October 2021

BLOG: “Black history and British history is a shared story.”

As Black History Month draws to a close, Liverpool City Council’s Equality and Cohesion Officer, Eve-Marie Evans reflects on its importance… Allocating October to recognise the contributions and achievements of black people is important. It provides a platform to showcase overlooked historical contributors and educates the whole community that Black and British history are interlinked.

River of Light March 2021

News · 28 October 2021

BLOG: “Please enjoy Liverpool, with pride in your heart.”

There have been pressures on the city centre since lockdown restrictions were lifted. Here, cabinet member for Neighbourhoods Cllr Abdul Qadir reflects on what the council and its partners are doing to make sure it remains a place that everyone can enjoy. One of the most heart-warming experiences after the Covid lockdowns ended, was the

Anne Marie Lubanski

News · 26 October 2021

New director of adult social care appointed

Liverpool City Council is set to welcome a new director of Adult Services and Health. Anne Marie Lubanski will come to Liverpool from Rotherham Borough Council and will take up the role, which oversees homelessness as well as adult social care, in the new year. In Rotherham, Ms Lubanski is the strategic director of Adult

News · 19 October 2021

Have your say on Liverpool’s “ladder” out of homelessness

LIVERPOOL City Council has today (Tuesday 19 October) launched a consultation on its new homelessness and rough sleeping strategy. Anyone in the city, including residents, businesses and other organisations, is invited to have their say on the five-year strategy which is set to inform how Liverpool supports people who have lost their homes. The consultation

Civic · 12 October 2021

Civic event to honour Liverpool’s pandemic response

People involved in Liverpool’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic will be honoured at a civic thank you event at the Town Hall on Wednesday 13 October. Around 100 guests will be at the ceremony, from hospital staff and care home workers, through to those who delivered food parcels and took to the streets to give

News · 11 October 2021

Afghan refugees receive #LettersFromLiverpool

Pupils from five Liverpool primary schools have written welcome letters to Afghan refugees who are now making the city their home. The moving letters which are part of a project with Writing on the Wall and Action Asylum, with the support of Asylum Link Merseyside, reassure the newcomers “you will have an amazing life here”,

Collection of children's books

News · 8 October 2021

Mandela8 launches book scheme in schools to celebrate Black History Month

A Liverpool charity has launched a book loan scheme to increase understanding of diversity within schools, and ’empower, encourage and educate’ all children in the City Region about diversity and inclusion. Mandela8 – the organisation behind the Nelson Mandela memorial soon to be opened in Princes Park – earlier this year were gifted a collection

Good Food Plan

Health · 4 October 2021

Liverpool launches ‘Good Food Plan’

Liverpool is to launch its Good Food Plan on Thursday 7 October – a strategy to create a city where everyone can eat good food and address key issues related to the food we eat. Phase One of the Good Food Plan is about tackling the immediate and urgent challenges that the city is facing

Education · 24 August 2021

Pre-loved school uniforms appeal

RESIDENTS are being urged to help families in need by donating good quality unwanted uniforms. Many families in the city are struggling to pay bills, heat their homes, feed and clothe their children. Liverpool City Council is always looking for ways we can help those most in need. The council has teamed up with Liverpool SEND

News · 23 August 2021

Community Engagement Fair in Newsham Park

The Tuebrook Local Policing Team, working alongside Liverpool City Council, is hosting a Community Engagement Fair in Newsham Park. The event, which will take place on Wednesday, 25 August, from 11am-3pm, will give the community a chance to meet their local policing team, learn about the different departments in the force and the support agencies

Kirkdale Customer Hub

News · 20 July 2021

Kirkdale Customer Hub is open for business

Liverpool City Council has opened its very first customer hub marking the start of its new-look one stop shop service. The new customer hub is temporarily in the former Kirkdale One Stop Shop building, 101 Walton Road, L4 4AG. It will move to its new home in Spellow Library in early 2022 following refurbishment work.

Food Bank Diary - Beryl Bellew

Blog · 4 July 2021

BLOG: Foodbank Diary – June

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

News · 11 June 2021

One Stop Shop service books a place in nine city libraries

NINE of Liverpool’s libraries are to be used to deliver a new-look One Stop Shop service. As part of the council’s budget proposals for 2021/22, it had been planned that £1.1 million be cut from the service’s budget, leaving just 18 staff working from four pop-up venues rather than eight fixed sites. The financial cut

News · 4 June 2021

Flower Streets given cash to bloom again

Streets in Kirkdale are set to become safer thanks to funding secured from the government’s Safer Streets Fund. The Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner’s office worked with Merseyside Police, Liverpool City Council and Wirral Borough Council on joint bids for key projects aimed at cutting crime and improving safety in two of the region’s most

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