Local businesses and organisations encouraged to support event

 

The Liverpool Lord Mayor is looking to her campaign’s Christmas fundraiser to help bring further mass awareness to her skills acquisition initiative.

 

Cllr Barbara Murray revealed at her inauguration that getting more young people access to the skills required to qualify for better jobs was her campaign’s driving force.

 

The Lord Mayor has flown the flag for children and young people for decades in the city. She is also the elected member for Yew Tree ward (since 2007).

 

She was returned for her fifth term as a city councilor in the all-out elections two years ago and has regularly spoken about the city’s major skills gap when it comes to filling the top jobs.

 

She said: “I set up the Liverpool Literacy Cycle in 2020 to help close the literacy gap as part of helping young people in their future career development. I’m also hoping to dramatically boost youth work provision and safe places for children and youth to develop my campaign. 

 

“As mentioned at the Annual Civic Service for the Lord Mayor last month, the City Council used to employ more than 80 youth workers, it currently employs 2.”

 

Bolstered by the strong support she has from The Lord Mayoral Committee, Cllr Murray now sees her campaign’s Christmas fundraiser on November 28th at Liverpool Town Hall as the ideal opportunity to bring her message firmly home to the widest possible audience.

She continued: “The past 5 months have flown by but we’ve reached thousands of people in raising awareness of my chosen charity, the Liverpool Education Grants Charitable Trust, previously known as the Council of Education. This provides financial awards, bursaries and grants for extracurricular and cultural activities to students up to the age of 25 years.

 

“What we now want to do is appeal to even more businesses from the private sector in boosting our fundraising total, which is much needed. Our Town Hall Christmas event can do just that.”

 

The Lord Mayor has asked the charity to set up a specific funding stream for lifelong learning and skills to improve employability and address poverty. The direct beneficiaries during her mayoral year are Liverpool Literacy Cycle, Youth Works apprenticeships and Liverpool Poetry Space.

 

Step Into Christmas Liverpool Town Hall 7.30pm-11.30pm. Tickets are priced at £120 or £1100 for a table of 10 and are available along with further information via jo.hynes-perez@jhp-assist.co.uk