News · 25 June 2021
The government has today (Friday 25 June) published its findings into the first phase of the Events Research Programme (ERP) – in which Liverpool played a major role. The ambition of the ERP was to understand how the risk of transmission can be reduced at large events when public health measures are introduced. The study
News · 25 May 2021
Liverpool Public Health officials and scientists have found the city’s pilot events did not cause any detectable spread of Covid-19 across the region. The city hosted four hugely successful events as part of the national Events Research Programme (ERP), with a total of 13,258 people attending The Good Business Festival, two nightclub events hosted by
News · 3 May 2021
It has been a week of firsts for the country and Liverpool has been at the very heart of it. Director of Culture Liverpool, Claire McColgan MBE, reflects on what has taken place behind the scenes to bring events alive once more, and how team work really did make the dream work. The images of
News · 1 May 2021
The first live music festival to take place in the country for over a year will take centre stage in Liverpool’s Sefton Park on Sunday 2 May. Running from 4pm to 10pm, 5,000 festival-goers will descend on the park as part of the national Events Research Programme. To enable the event to take place safely,
News · 23 April 2021
The Good Business Festival today announces the speaker line-up for its launch event ‘Change Business for Good’, the first in-person, live business event without Covid measures happening in the UK since the first national lockdown in March 2020. The Good Business Festival, a pioneering new global gathering in the Liverpool City Region, will host ‘Change
News · 21 April 2021
The first nightclub event to take place in the UK in more than a year is coming to Liverpool on Friday 30 April and Saturday 1 May. Legendary club night Circus will be hosting The First Dance as part of the national Events Research programme (ERP) which will see 6,000 clubbers across two nights take
News · 18 April 2021
Sefton Park is to play host to a brand new music festival as part of the national Events Research Programme (ERP). Sefton Park Pilot will take over a small area of the Grade 1 listed historic park on Sunday 2 May, with one of the hottest indie bands of the moment taking to the stage.
