News · 15 September 2020
A brand new competition has been launched to bring a bit of creative flair to the latest fashion trend – face coverings! The ongoing health pandemic has meant that everyone (unless medically exempt) should wear a face covering when they’re out and about to keep themselves, and those around them safe – especially if social
News · 2 September 2020
With the furlough scheme set to end on 31 October, the latest episode of the Mersey Waves podcast finds out what this really means for workers and their employers who have real concerns about covering costs when, at the moment, it’s anything but business as usual. We hear from three people who have taken advantage
News · 10 August 2020
A health and wellbeing social enterprise is donating park benches across several boroughs in the Liverpool City Region and it wants members of the public to choose where these benches should be located. The project is called ‘Peoples Park Benches’ and forms part of the organisations 15th birthday celebrations this month. A bench will be
News · 30 July 2020
The Liverpool 5G team is building on its previous success by bringing an extra £4.3m into the city to support vital health and social care technologies as part of a £7.2m project. The team behind the Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care project has won a UK-wide competition 5G Create, run by the Department for
News · 30 July 2020
Restaurants, cafes and bars in the city centre can now cater for a further 2,723 covers thanks to the Liverpool Without Walls programme. In what is believed to be the first project of its kind in the country, Liverpool City Council launched a £450,000 fund in June to help local small to medium sized businesses
News · 29 July 2020
Liverpool City Council has announced today (29 July) it will be unable to host a rescheduled Special Olympics GB National Summer Games in 2022. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the decision to postpone the 2021 games was made in late May, but having explored all the options for the Games to take place in Liverpool
News · 28 July 2020
An animated adaptation of a critically acclaimed novel is one of a tranche of brand new projects to be produced in Liverpool City Region thanks to Liverpool Film Office funding. The Girl Who Stole An Elephant, by Nizrana Farook, will be brought to life by local BAFTA and Emmy-winning writer, Helen Blakeman (Dustbin Baby, Hetty
News · 21 July 2020
The Rugby League World Cup comes to England in 2021, and tournament organisers have today (July 21st) revealed the much-anticipated fixture schedule for what promises to be the biggest and best World Cup in the history of the sport, as the men’s, women’s and wheelchair teams all compete at the same time in a major
News · 21 July 2020
A brand new £200,000 fund has been created to bring energy, culture and vibrancy on to the streets of Liverpool. Following recent announcements from central Government that socially distanced live performances are now allowed, Liverpool City Council and Arts Council England are launching a £200,000 pilot project to fund performing and visual art in the
News · 17 July 2020
Some of the new leading lights of Liverpool’s music scene are set to take to a virtual stage this weekend in celebration of the city’s music credentials. This Sunday (19 July) should have seen Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) take over Sefton Park – instead, a mini-virtual festival LIMF presents…Music City: Next Phase will take
News · 30 June 2020
ACC Liverpool has today confirmed that it is ready to open its doors for the return of conferences and business events as soon as government restrictions are eased; issuing a new set of Covid-19 secure operational guidelines for event organisers. This follows three months of the venue operating as a food and PPE distribution centre
News · 29 June 2020
Plans are being put in place to help secure the future of one of Liverpool’s oldest buildings. A report to Liverpool City Council’s virtual Cabinet meeting on Friday 3 July recommends essential work is undertaken to protect Croxteth Hall and its estate. The report recommends that urgent engineering and structural work to the Hall must
News · 27 June 2020
Following the mass gathering at Liverpool’s Pier Head yesterday evening, Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, has written to the people of the city. To the people of Liverpool, I wanted to put in writing my sadness and disappointment at the scenes that unfolded in Liverpool city centre last night. An occasion for celebration has been
News · 27 June 2020
Joint statement from Liverpool Football Club, Liverpool City Council and Merseyside Police following mass gathering at the Pier Head last night. Throughout the last week, Liverpool Football Club, Merseyside Police, Liverpool City Council and Spirit of Shankly, have worked together to consistently remind people that the region is still disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
News · 23 June 2020
The Mayor of Liverpool has welcomed the Government’s announcement that parts of the cultural and hospitality sector will be allowed to open their doors from 4 July. Mayor Joe Anderson has praised the decision after latest figures show the huge economic return the culture and hospitality has for Liverpool. For Liverpool, the leisure, creative and
News · 22 June 2020
Liverpool has raised the Armed Forces Flag on Liverpool Town Hall as today (Monday 22 June) officially marks the start of Armed Forces Week. The Lord Mayor Councillor Anna Rothery, was joined by Lieutenant Commander Roy Miller Royal Naval Reserve, and the city’s armed forces champion Councillor Roy Gladden to hoist the flag. It kick-starts
News · 18 June 2020
A month-long celebration of refugee arts and culture has started as part of National Refugee Week. Festival 31 has launched this week and offers a series of unique and thought-provoking art commissions and events exploring the refugee experience. Organised by Liverpool-based charity SOLA Arts, the festival has been taking place in the city since 2014,
News · 11 June 2020
Shoppers planning on heading in to Liverpool city centre next week are being urged to think carefully before making the decision and plan their journey. From Monday 15 June all non-essential retailers have been given the green light to reopen their doors, and it is expected that many will take the opportunity to do so
News · 28 May 2020
The 2021 Special Olympics GB National Summer Games, scheduled to take place in Liverpool next August 2021, are to be postponed. The difficult decision was made by the 2021 National Summer Games Board after careful consideration of the ever-changing Covid-19 situation and in full consultation with a wide range of key stakeholders including the Special
News · 26 May 2020
Three city leaders have come together to talk about how Liverpool will re-emerge from lockdown. Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson, Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool Professor Dame Janet Beer and Chief Executive of Liverpool BID Bill Addy have spoken openly and optimistically about the future of Liverpool in the latest Mersey Waves podcast
