Liverpool community garden boasts the benefits of green spaces this national gardening week
As green thumbs across the UK celebrate National Gardening Week, one community garden run by Liverpool homeless charity Emmaus is highlighting how tending to plants can transform lives.
Tucked away among the concrete landscape of Litherland and Seaforth, the...
Widnes welcomes women-only run club aiming to improve wellbeing
A young woman from Widnes has described being ‘overwhelmed’ by the response to the female-only run club she established in the town’s Victoria Park.
Ashana Raynes, 19, set up her weekly club earlier this month. The first gathering,...
The Chester brain tumour survivor who completed 100 mile race
A Chester charity leader completed the GB Ultras 100-mile endurance ultramarathon race to raise funds for a lifesaving defibrillator.
Sara Crosland, who founded The Beyond Recovery Project in 2023, is a brain tumour survivor and set up the charity to...
Child bereavement charity faces closure after losing funding
A Wavertree charity that helps bereaved families could close down after the summer after losing essential funding.
Love Jasmine was set up in 2016 by Rob and Kathy Lapsley after their daughter, Jasmine, passed away in 2014 at six years...
Man with Parkinson’s completes skateboard challenge for charity
A 58 year-old from Newton-Le-Willows has completed a 'ten tricks on a skateboard' challenge and raised over £1,200 for Parkinson's UK.
Philip Brown was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2018, and began skateboarding in 2022 after helping his son learn.
He said:...
UK’s largest cat show comes to Liverpool
Liverpool hosted the UK’s largest competitive cat show – the GCCF Supreme Cat Show 2026 - over the weekend.
With this year's theme being “Cat-O-Vision” (a play on Eurovision), it was a global gathering of cats and their owners from...
St Helens veteran makes history at 2026 London Marathon
St Helens war hero and charity founder Andy Reid MBE defied the odds by becoming the first triple amputee to finish the London Marathon.
Mr Reid crossed the finish line on Sunday after 12 hours, 34 minutes and 54 seconds,...
Merseyside’s haven for people struggling with addiction
The Brink recovery café and dry bar is tucked away on the cobbled avenue of Parr Street in Central Liverpool. The Brink offers a safe space for anyone battling with addiction or just making a choice to live life...
The Reader: The charity getting Merseyside reading again
Tucked away in the dreamy Calderstones Park is the Mansion House, home to ‘The Reader’; the UK’s largest shared reading charity.
In this UK-wide 'year of reading', a national initiative that aims to reverse the decline in people reading...
Could you foster a trainee guide dog?
The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association in Liverpool is looking for new volunteer fosterers for their trainee dogs.
If you’d love a dog in the house, but you don’t have the time for a permanent pet, this may be...
