Charity

A special workshop in Bootle is helping men find support and good company in challenging times. Bootle Tool Shed is a community workshop and its founder says members have told him they “would be dead” without its support. Eddy Flynn, now...

A Liverpool-based charity has come up with an original concept which encourages men to lose weight, keep fit, and make new friends. Manwell has set up a football league in which teams are awarded points in the traditional (three for...

Liverpool Gives are returning with their sell-out fundraising event this Saturday. The event will be filled with live music acts, performances and raffles with plenty of prizes from independent Liverpool venues. This will be Liverpool Gives' fourth charity event, supporting Teenager...

Over 6,000 Santas flocked to the docks on Sunday morning for Liverpool's annual Santa Dash. Santas young and old gathered at Pier Head in what felt like freezing temperatures at 9.30 to take part in the biggest Santa dash in...

  A team from LJMU is selflessly taking on Africa’s highest mountain in support of Dig Deep charity. Their mission is focused on Bomet County in Kenya by creating access for the one million people that live there. They believe that...

Services in Liverpool are giving people with blindness and other visual impairments their life skills back. In the UK, employment for those who are visually impaired has dropped from 45% to 25% in the last ten years. But in Merseyside you...

Men across the country will be walking 11,000 steps on every day of March to raise awareness for prostate cancer, all in the name of saving lives. This is after an initiative set up by Prostate Cancer UK called 'March...

Women across Merseyside have started to run together at Sefton Park on weekends in a group created to support women and facilitate friend making opportunities. Stephanie Barney, 22, and Caitlin Lewing, 21, are the brains behind “Girls on the Go”....

Sober October encourages people to go alcohol-free for a month. The aim is to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support, whilst positively benefitting individuals to rethink their relationship with alcohol. View our video report by Pratham Bhagudia  https://youtu.be/LzcOESvqtdI Featured image (c) MerseyNewsLive

Dance for Parkinson's is a health and wellbeing initiative offering dance classes around the country. Set up by the English National Ballet, a partnership has been created with Liverpool Hope University (LHU) to bring the movement to Merseyside. Dr Sarah Black-Frizzell,...