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News Report Page 6 of 17
Publication Date:-
2021-10-03
 
 
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Metro Mayor unveils ₤480,000 grants fund for community and voluntary organisations using returns on successful investments. Metro

LIVERPOOL City Region Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram has unveiled a near ˝ a million pound grant fund to help community projects and groups across the Liverpool City Region; using some of the profits from successful investments the Combined Authority has made. The pot; which builds on the success of LCR Cares, which raised and distributed over ₤2.5 million to hundreds of organisations across the Region, helping more than 250,000 people during the Pandemic; was made possible by a ₤1.6m return from the Chrysalis Fund. Under the innovative grant scheme, voluntary and community organisations can bid, via a simplified process, for cash to support initiatives meeting key pillars of the Region's recovery plan, Build Back Better. These include mental health and wellbeing, community wealth building and digital inclusion as well as providing support for volunteer management. The flexible scheme has been shaped by the priorities and needs of the community and voluntary sector.

Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, said:- "Our Region's community and voluntary sector is the envy of the country. And, when the Pandemic threatened to wreak havoc on our most vulnerable, they stepped up. I'm proud of the way we were able to help them with LCR Cares, a unique crowd funded campaign that raised more than ₤2.5m to help support that invaluable work: from mental health counselling and delivering food packages, to providing entertainment for children stuck inside and specialist support for victims of domestic abuse. LCR Cares was an emergency measure for an emergency situation. Now I'm moving to give the sector more financial security with a bespoke fund paid for from the profits we've made from successful investments. This will help free up the sector from some of the unnecessary red tape they face when normally applying for funding and allow them to get on with what they do best: making a difference in their communities. The funding will be managed via VS6, a partnership of 11 support organisations working with the 8,600 voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise groups operating across the City Region."

Independent Chair of VS6, Rev Canon Dr Ellen Loudon, Director of Social Justice and Canon Chancellor, Diocese of Liverpool, said:- "The VS6 Partnership are delighted to hear that ₤480,000 of grant funding is being made available to the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector in Liverpool City Region, following on from the implementation of the successful LCR Cares Fund. We welcome the continued commitment of investment into the sector by the Metro Mayor and the Combined Authority, evidencing their recognition of the important role of the sector in stimulating community action through local economic growth, employment opportunities and community innovation. This grant funding will enable us to build upon the success and innovation of LCR Cares, the 1st of it's kind in the UK, with a leading edge approach to ensuring that the sector's reach into communities and commitment to inclusion is an inherent part of the Build Back Better strategy in the City Region."

Deputy Metro Mayor and Leader of Wirral Council, Cllr Janette Williamson, said:- "LCR Cares has been a genuine trailblazer in putting cash directly into communities where it can help achieve the most benefit, and I have no doubt that this new fund will build on that success. The events of the last 18 months through the Pandemic have once again shown the vital role the community and voluntary groups play right across our Region, and this will hopefully help them continue to deliver for and support their communities."
 


Tickets now available for immersive attraction which takes St George's Hall visitors back to the 1850's

TICKETS are now available for a brand new immersive visitor experience at St George's Hall in Liverpool, which opens its doors next month. The History Whisperer is the focal point of the new St George's Hall Experience and opens to visitors on Friday, 8 October 2021, using the latest technology to plunge audiences into a world where the past meets the present and history comes alive. It brings to life Liverpool in the 1850s and illustrates how the building represented 2 very different sides to the City - from the opulence of the Great Hall and Concert Room so loved by Queen Victoria and Charles Dickens to the destitution of people in the building's prison cells awaiting sentencing in its court room. The attraction tells the story through the eyes of a child called Livie, who finds herself all alone after her father is transported to the other side of the world after completing work on the construction of St George's Hall, while her brother is in 1 of the building's prison cells awaiting his fate.

For a limited period, tickets for the new attraction will cost just ₤1 per person; as the City's way of giving something back to the people of Liverpool following the Pandemic. Behind the new addition is a team of the country's leading tech organisations:-

Gazooky Studios - a BAFTA and Prix Europa award winning storytelling and world class XR technology company.

Immersive Interactive - specialists in mesmerising touch wall interactivity.

Music in Mind - an industry-leader when it comes to creating rousing, witty and deeply moving music and sound effects.

The creators behind the experience have drawn on their international experience and accolades. They boast many international awards, from BAFTAs to Prix Europas and the Venice Biennale. Gazooky Studios has worked with the BBC, BFI, Columbia Sony, Microsoft, Netflix, and many other world class partners, and have been part of several world 1st experiences including Kansas Sealife AR experience, Covent Garden AR shopping experience and London Bridge Station Hub. The music has been specially composed and performed by globally respected musicians from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. The consortium has spent the last few months devising and installing the attraction, after Liverpool City Council secured ₤250,000 from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport as part of the Government's Culture Recovery Fund.

Liverpool's Cabinet Member for Culture and Visitor Economy, Councillor Harry Doyle, said:- "St George's Hall is a already a must visit destination for tourists and residents alike, but by bringing on board some of the country's leading digital and immersive technology companies, we are now offering a whole new way of showcasing its amazing history. We know how tough people have found the last 18 months, so when we throw open the doors it will cost just ₤1 per person to visit as a way of giving something back to the City. The story told in the History Whisperer is key to understanding the City's past and what makes it the place it is today."

Head of Heritage Preservation and Development, Alan Smith, said:- "St George's Hall has always been an incredibly important part of Liverpool since it was built, and to this day it plays a role in important moments in people's lives, whether it is hosting a wedding or by being the place you visit to register a birth, death or marriage. Now, using the latest technology, we are able to bring alive the sights and sounds of the City's past in a way that has never been done before, bringing a whole new dimension to the experience of visiting the building. It is hugely exciting for us and is a key part of our determination to make sure the building is as relevant today as it always has been; a living, breathing part of life in the City."

Speaking on be˝ of The History Whisperer consortium, Chief Executive and Creative Director of Gazooky Studios, Dr Rose Kay, said:- "We are delighted to be given this amazing opportunity. Our aim has been to bring the spaces of St George's Hall alive with an immersive, interactive storytelling attraction unlike anything else in the UK. It combines the latest XR technology, film, art and music which I know will move people and have them reflecting on life for the City's ancestors. It has been a great privilege to be working with other Liverpool-based companies and with the community, to create a world-class experience, sharing stories of Liverpool's rich past."

More information is available now at:- StGeorgesHallLiverpool.Co.UK.
 
 

 
      
 
   
 
 
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