News · 10 April 2025
Liverpool city region’s annual Pride March is set to take place on Saturday 26th July, with organisers LCR Pride Foundation announcing that “March with Pride” registrations are now open. LGBTQ+ individuals and allies, alongside organisations and community groups are invited to stand against rising hate, discrimination and prejudice towards LGBTQ+ and other marginalised communities, and
News · 10 April 2025
Walton residents are being invited to explore what home means to them at a series of workshops at Spellow Community Hub and Library. Culture Liverpool has commissioned artist Dora Colquhoun – a neurodivergent writer, facilitator, performer, and theatre maker – to deliver series of workshops, the first of which will take place this Saturday (12
Health · 10 April 2025
Are you a local resident with a powerful business idea that addresses a health or care challenge in your community? Liverpool City Council’s Business Support Service are delighted to invite you to an information session with Citizen First LCR to hear about their new start-up support programme which is open to applications now! The information sessions takes place:
A well-run council · 10 April 2025
A local healthcare company has been ordered to pay over £6000 for unlawfully destroying three protected trees which were believed to be over 100 years old.
Health · 9 April 2025
Liverpool City Council has launched a new approach to Public Health Nursing, offering stronger, more accessible support for families, from pregnancy through school years and into parenthood, helping to improve long-term outcomes for all. Over the coming months, residents will see improvements in how the service is delivered. Plans include creating a single point of
A well-connected, sustainable and accessible city · 9 April 2025
Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet is set to consider a new Zero Waste Strategy, which will look to rid the City Region of all unnecessary waste by 2040.
Better roads · 8 April 2025
As part of the contract, the two firms are committed to creating social value that will see benefit to the community in addition to the work carried out.
News · 8 April 2025
Over 2,500 new childcare places are being created in Liverpool that will support working parents – and there are more to come. The increase has been made possible by grant funding received from the government to support the national expansion of funded childcare places as well as places which are part of the “wraparound” programme
A well-run council · 7 April 2025
Liverpool City Council has made “significant and substantial improvement”, the Government has been told, following the end of the conclusion of the independently-led Improvement and Assurance Board.
News · 7 April 2025
The Liverpool-based national charity’s new weekly group is a free and enjoyable activity where people can connect and share experiences using stories and poems. (with images. Please credit: Liverpool City Council) A new Shared Reading group has launched at Spellow Library Hub in Liverpool. The Walton group will run every week on Mondays from 4pm
News · 7 April 2025
The fantastical dreams and magical memories of a Liverpool community are to be celebrated in unique fashion next month. A dreamkeeping HQ is to be set up as part of a free family-friendly day of celebration, art and performances in the heart of the city’s Dovecot area. On Saturday 3 May, Dovecot Dreamkeeping Society
Health · 4 April 2025
Liverpool City Council has shared an important update on its efforts to tackle health inequalities, following a report revealing people living in deprived areas of Liverpool are dying up to 15 years earlier than those in other parts of the city. At the Full Council meeting (Wednesday 2 April) Councillor Harry Doyle, Cabinet Member for Health,
News · 4 April 2025
King’s Leadership Academy Wavertree, a non-selective free school, is set to open in September following confirmation from the Department for Education that it is entering into a funding agreement. The Secretary of State for Education has agreed that the multi-academy trust, the Great Schools Trust, can open the school with its first cohort of 210
Healthier lives for children and adults · 4 April 2025
A landlord has been hit with a bill of more than £16,000 for multiple disrepair and other issues at an HMO (House of Multiple Occupation) property in Anfield.
Health · 4 April 2025
A ground-breaking initiative to tackle health and care inequalities in Liverpool City Region (LCR) communities launches today. Citizen First LCR will put power firmly in the hands of those with experience of health and care challenges on the ground. Applications are now open to find eight inspiring LCR residents with a powerful business idea that tackles the
News · 3 April 2025
From an Easter egg hunt to shadow puppet workshops and storytelling sessions, there’s lots to do for all the family in and around Liverpool libraries during the Easter holidays. It wouldn’t be Easter without an egg hunt. Culture Liverpool has commissioned Positive Pathways to host a community day at St John’s Gardens on Thursday 17
News · 3 April 2025
Liverpool City Council’s Film Office has called it a wrap on its 35th anniversary celebrations, with a showstopping celebratory showreel. Produced by the award-winning, Liverpool based, LA Productions, and lovingly curated by creative director Chris Bernard, whose debut film Letter to Brezhnev was released the same year the Film Office was established, the showreel attempts
Health · 2 April 2025
Liverpool City Council has passed a motion highlighting the growing dangers of ketamine use among young people.
Thriving communities · 2 April 2025
Liverpool City Council is waiving road closure fees for residents who want to hold street parties between Thursday 8 May and Sunday 11 May to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
A strong and fair economy for all · 2 April 2025
Councillor Harry Doyle, Liverpool City Council's Cabinet Member for Culture and Public Health, outlines why a tourism levy would be good for Liverpool and the wider City Region...
