Category: Past Events

Good Food; Our Food Pop Up Exhibition – Holy Host/No Angels Event

Since 2021, Feeding Liverpool has led Liverpool’s Good Food Plan and listened to people across Liverpool as they have answered this question: “What does Good Food mean to you?”

For many, it means eating our cultural food. Feeding Liverpool have also heard how the traditions surrounding cultural food are important to our wellbeing through our sense of shared identity, community, and heritage.

This year, working with local photographer Emma Case and community groups across Liverpool, Feeding Liverpool have begun building a collection of food stories through photographs and interviews. The pop up version of the Good Food; Our Food Exhibition will be at St Luke’s Bombed Out Church on Thursday 16th November as part of the Holy Host/No Angels event – a celebration of staff and volunteers who work in soup kitchens and homelessness charities. Free tickets are available here.

Date: Thursday 16th November, 4.30pm-6.30pm
Location: St Luke’s Bombed Out Church, Leece Street, L1 2TR

Lets End Poverty Founding Assembly

It is known that poverty in the UK is an avoidable, solvable that can be fixed. That is why Liverpool is coming together to call for a future where poverty cannot keep anybody down.

The Lets End Poverty Assembly is aiming to build the movement towards ending poverty in the UK. By connecting with others in a regional gathering or online to show that taking action to end poverty matters to the community, it is hoped that political leaders will begin to make it their priority too.

At Let’s End Poverty Assembly gatherings across the UK, various themes will be explored:

  • How we can organise and mobilise our communities to move tackling poverty higher up the political agenda
  • How we can build community conversations that bring lived experience, expertise and practical solutions together to set the roadmap towards ending poverty in the UK
  • How individuals can play their part in building momentum in their networks and community ahead of the next General Election

Book your place and found out more information here.

When: Saturday 14th October 

Time: 11am-1pm 

Where: The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, Liverpool, L1 9BG 

Leafleting for Free School Meals for All at Labour Party Conference

Join Feeding Liverpool and the National Education Union in calling for free school meals loud and clear at the Labour Party Conference alongside parents, educators, union activists, party members and local organisations.

Together we will:

  • Leaflet with and hear from Free School Meals for All advocates
  • Spark conversations with conference goers, including politicians, the press, and Liverpool friends and neighbours
  • Show what our city stands for and make a difference on the national stage

When: Monday 9th October from 8:30am-10:00am                                                                                 

Where: Wheel of Liverpool, 4 Keel Wharf, Liverpool, L3 4FN                                                                       

Contact: [email protected]

You can sign up to attend the event here.

Autumn Emergency Food Network Gathering 2023

Feeding Liverpool are inviting organisations providing emergency and community food support in Liverpool to join us at our Autumn Emergency Food Network Gathering. We will bring together organisations to listen, learn, share and make connections, as we work towards creating a city where everyone can eat good food

You will hear from emergency food providers and learn about their organisations, their success and any challenges they are facing. There will also be an opportunity to share your experiences and ask questions too.

This session will be focusing on how our food spaces can prepare to face the challenges of winter – a time when all of our organisations come under increased pressure as demand rises.

We would encourage each organisation providing emergency or community food support to send a representative to this session.

Teas and Coffees provided.

Who: Organisations providing emergency and community food in the City of Liverpool

When: Tuesday 17th October at 1:30pm to 3:30pm

Where: Tuebrook Hope Centre, Christ Church Buckingham Rd, Tuebrook, Liverpool, L13 8AZ

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]

Register here!

Hunger March – 23rd September 2023

Join the Hunger March on Saturday 23rd September, taking place at 12 noon at St George’s Hall steps!

In a country as wealthy as the UK, hunger is a political choice. Whilst many cities have copied Liverpool’s example and voted to become Right to Food Cities, there is a lack of national leadership to address food insecurity. Feeding Liverpool are joining the Right to Food Campaign in an emulation of the unemployed workers movements in the 1920s-1940s which mobilised unemployed workers, trade unions and civil society to call for national action to end hunger.

Feeding Liverpool want to support Community Food Spaces to get involved in the Right to Food Week of Action and join the march.

 Ideas to get people from your food space engaged could be:

  • Holding a banner making session to create materials for the march on the 23rd
  • Deciding on a meet up point to join the St George’s Hall rally together with your members and banner
  • Using your social media to promote the march and Right to Food graphics use #RightToFood #RTFWeek2023 #HungerMarchLiverpool
  • Creating a video from your community food space explaining why the Right to Food is important for members
  • Holding a Right to Food stall at your community food space to talk to others
  • Contacting your local schools, community groups and workplaces to make connections and get them involved

If you are interested in getting involved in the week of action, mobilising for the Liverpool Hunger March or want to find out more, check out our website or email [email protected]

Download the Right to Food Week flyer here.

Visit Brickyard: Cook, Eat, Grow at the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park

Come and visit the Feeding Liverpool team this July as we head to RHS Flower Show Tatton Park

This year’s RHS Flower Show Tatton Park from 19th – 23rd July will feature show-garden ‘Brickyard’: Grow, Cook, Eat’ a sustainable, creative urban-growing space that strengthens biodiversity and connects city residents with the joy of growing good food.

The show garden designed by Conal McGuire is the first public project from Conal Studio and is a collaboration with charity partners Feeding Liverpool, the city’s food alliance passionate about ensuring everyone can eat good food, and Everton in the Community, the charitable arm of Everton Football Club that tackles social issues across the city including employability, mental health, education and poverty.

After the show, the garden will be relocated to Everton in the Community’s purpose-built mental health hub, The People’s Place, forming a lasting legacy for the city.

“Feeding Liverpool is delighted to be supporting Conal Studio and Everton in the Community with the development and post-show relocation of Brickyard. The vision and values of Brickyard bring to life Liverpool’s Good Food Plan, enabling food citizenship through making urban food growing accessible for all. Our team are looking forward to welcoming visitors to the garden to showcase the intricate garden structures that provide new ways to bring food growing into inner city spaces” – Dr Naomi Maynard, Feeding Liverpool Director

Brickyard’s design is influenced by the traditional brickyards that run alongside thousands of UK terraced streets. It responds to the limitations of awkward inner city growing spaces and looks at how we can adapt them for modern living. Factors such as tenancy agreements, environmental concerns, tradition, and cost have a massive impact on how people utilise these spaces. Steel and reclaimed brick evoke the materials found in traditional brick-yards, here reimagined in a contemporary design. The ‘Granby Rock’ Terrazzo is made from the waste material of demolished Victorian terrace houses from inner-city Liverpool. It is woven through the garden, physically integrating and repurposing original material from the inspiration behind Brickyard.

During the show Brickyard will host live demonstrations from Andrea Ku of B 4 Biodiversity. Andrea will be demonstrating how the gardens unique grow-frames enable people to cultivate food organically, in awkward outdoor spaces at home, or in shared gardens. These frames will demonstrate the benefits of companion planting and will house bespoke habitats for rare species of bumblebee and other wildlife.

Feeding Liverpool, Everton in the Community and B 4 Biodiversity are not the only Liverpool-based charities heading to the RHS Tatton Park Flower Show this year. Our friends at Faiths4Change and Myerscough College will be at the show as part of the Northern Star Show Garden, and The Gateway Collective and Taking Root will also be bringing their garden back to Bootle after the show.

Feeding Liverpool’s team will be at the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park on Thursday 20th July and Saturday 22nd July. Do come say hello!

Buy your ticket for the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 19th – 23rd July 2023 

Summer Emergency Food Network Gathering

Register here!

Feeding Liverpool are inviting organisations in Liverpool providing emergency and community food support to join us at our next quarterly emergency food providers network gathering. We will bring together organisations to listen, learn, share and make connections, as we work towards creating a city where everyone can eat good food

You will hear from emergency food providers, connect and share your experiences, updates and ask questions.

This session will have a focus on Mental Health. More details tbc.

We would encourage each organisation providing emergency or community food support to send a representative to this session.

Teas and Coffees provided.

Who: Organisations providing emergency and community food in the City of Liverpool

When: 1:30pm to 3:30pm, Thursday 20th July 2023

Where: Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BT

If you have any questions please contact [email protected]

Register here!