Award winning mental health charity in Merseyside to receive £40,000
A Birkenhead-based charity has won a major award for its creative and accessible mental health and wellbeing support for young people across Wirral and Merseyside.
Open Door Charity will receive £40,000 in unrestricted funding. They will also receive expert support...
Merseyside students educated on testicular cancer
Calday Grange grammar school welcomed UK Testicular Cancer charity The Oddballs Foundation this month.
James Hirst, one of the charity's student ambassadors, went into the school to talk to the students about the basics of testicular cancer.
Walking them through how...
The queer disco that aims to celebrate and educate
Sonic Yootha is a monthly new wave, old rave, disco, electro, rock, pop, and soul social that has been going since 2015.
The club night is held at Baltic Triangle’s 24 Kitchen Street as an alternative LGBTQ+ night.
Unlike many gay...
Liverpool Women’s Hospital advocate aims to improve maternity services
Liverpool Women’s Hospital has appointed a maternity and neonatal advocate to support women and their families through maternity and ensure their care is handled properly.
It is part of Liverpool Women’s Hospital five-year strategy, from 2021 to 2025, to improve...
XL Bully thefts rise following the ban of the breed
New figures reveal that there has been a sharp rise in XL bully thefts within the last year, as the breed was officially banned at the beginning of the year.
Since the events, the breed has now been declared as...
The Power of Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Liverpool has become famous for it's musical legacy including The Beatles, Cilla Black and Dead or Alive but an often forgotten gem of the city is Frankie Goes To Hollywood who are often dismissed in the overall conversation about...
Grass-roots funding to remove barriers for LGBT+ people
The LCR Pride Foundation has announced the recipients of its inaugural round of grants from the Community Fund, targeting initiatives aimed at fostering positive change for the LGBT+ community in the Liverpool City Region.
In partnership with Barclays, the regions...
Lottery Fund to Revive Rare Orchid Collection
Liverpool City Council has successfully won a bid submitted to The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
£245,000 is set to be awarded and invested into Liverpool’s Historic Botanical Collection which features a rare orchid.
Sarah Dalrymple, Programme Leader of Wildlife Conservation at...
March With Pride set to return to the City this Summer
Tens of Thousands of people are expected to join Liverpool’s annual March with Pride as it returns for a weekend of Celebration and Protest in the Summer.
March with Pride will return as part of Pride in Liverpool on 27th...
Meet Rita – the oldest landlady in Liverpool
Local-loved Toxteth pub Peter Kavanagh's now homes the oldest landlady in Liverpool.
Rita Smith, 85, took over the boozer in 1992, and hasn't looked back since, winning a Lifetime Achievement Award just last year.
Having previous occupations as a cleaner and...
