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Come along to Sefton Community Learning Centre’s Summer Fair

5 June 2019
Martin Driver
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Categories: Front Page, Latest News, Your Sefton

Sefton Community Learning Service is celebrating summer with a Summer Fair and Car Boot Sale on Saturday, June 22.

Taking place at the Sefton Community Learning Service hub at 53 Cambridge Road, Seaforth from 12-3pm, the event promises lots of fun for all the family with a variety of workshops and activities on offer.

Workshops include self-defence, Italian dessert-making, healthy pizza decorating, recycled jewellery making, self defence awareness and flower arranging.

Freshfield Animal Rescue will be at the fair running games and stalls to help support their charity.

Merseyside Police will be bringing along a ‘police media gaming van’ providing information on personal and home security (including bike marking) and Bluebell Stalls, who run local gift, craft and produce fairs will be offering plenty of products crafts to buy.

The Canal & River Trust and Living Well Sefton will also be attending the event, and there will be plenty of traditional stalls including ‘hook-a-duck’, ‘hoopla’ and balloon modelling.

To find out more about the event, book a place on one of the workshops or secure a pitch for the car boot sale, call 0151 934 4546. Admission is free and entry is ÂŁ5 per car for the car boot sale.

 

Sefton backs 3tc’s annual Festival Of Learning campaign

5 June 2019
Ollie Cowan
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Categories: 2019 - Sefton's Year of friendship, Featured Friendship News, Front Page, Latest News

Sefton Council’s Year Of Friendship campaign is lending its full support and backing to the 3TC Festival of Learning during June, which is the borough’s Learning month.

Festival of Learning, an annual festival by charity 3tc, is encouraging everyone to learn something new, or re-connect with an old hobby or passion, this month.

The Festival of Learning is for everyone! Whether you already love to learn, are thinking about having a go at learning something new, or are involved in organising learning activities, events and courses for others, you can be a part of the Festival of Learning.

Each year, all those who take part in the Festival of Learning show that learning increases self-confidence, enhances career prospects, improves health and well-being, enriches family relationships and empowers people to change their lives for the better.

Throughout June Sefton’s Year Of Friendship campaign we are highlighting a host of fantastic organisations and groups across the borough who foster positive, friendly learning environments which help expand both knowledge and social interactions.

Local businesses vote ‘yes’ to renew Southport BID for five years

5 June 2019
Ollie Cowan
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Categories: Business and Economy, Essential Sefton, Front Page, Latest News

Southport BID has announced that the investment it brings to Southport and the work that it does in the town will continue for another 5 years. This news comes as a result of local businesses voting ‘yes’ for the continuation of Southport BID (Business Improvement District) for 2019-2024.

Businesses have been voting over the last month, having responded to the results already achieved by the BID and its plans for the future. These include the promotion of Southport, attracting external investment, developing and supporting initiatives to enhance the town, creating events, and championing the issues important to the town’s businesses.

58% of businesses voted in favour of renewing the BID. All businesses in Southport within the BID area and with a rateable value of over £7,000 were entitled to vote in a process managed by the Electoral Reform Service. The ‘yes’ vote means that the levy paid by businesses will see over £2 million invested directly into the town over the next 5 years.

Hugh Evans, CEO of Southport BID, says, “We are delighted that businesses have recognised the difference that having a BID is making in Southport and want our contribution to continue. This will ensure an important economic boost for Southport, which we want to thank the business community for making possible. In developing our plans we consulted with local businesses and will continue to do so as we begin to put these into place and look forward to working them and leading partners in the region in the coming months to do our very best for Southport.”

Robert Uffendell, chair of Southport BID, says, “Southport BID is voice for the business community with a focus upon improving the town for the benefit of those living and working in Southport or visiting the town. The yes vote is wonderful news and we thank all those who are helping and supporting us to move forward with our vision for a stronger, more successful Southport.”

For further information on Southport BID and its plans visit www.SouthportBID.com or contact the Southport BID office on 01704 538 382.

Thousands enjoy delights of 2019 Southport Food & Drink Festival

4 June 2019
Ollie Cowan
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Categories: Business and Economy, Essential Sefton, Front Page, Latest News, Your Sefton

Thousands of food and drink lovers descended on Southport last weekend to sample the very best that the North West has to offer.

Occasional rain showers did not deter the crowds at Victoria Park between Friday May 31 and Saturday June 2 with hundreds of stalls offering a range of tasty delights and delectable treats to buy.

New additions to the festival this year included Oktoberfest tent, live DJs, added children’s entertainment and a reptile park.

Cllr Marion Atkinson, Sefton Council’s Labour Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Skills, said: “The Southport Food & Drink Festival is a fantastic annual event which benefits the whole town and the wider borough.

“Over the years the festival has evolved into an incredibly huge and diverse event and is now one of, if not the, biggest food festivals in the North West.

“Hundreds of our amazing local traders in Southport are joined each year by some of the finest food and drink producers from across the region in the fantastic setting of Victoria Park. It is a testament to the festival’s incredible popularity that so many people turned out despite the occasional rain shower! With so many people attending the event, the whole of the resort receives a real boost with added footfall right across the town.

“The Food & Drink festival kick starts what is an exciting programme of events for Southport over the coming months with the Air Show and the British Musical Fireworks Championships in September. We look forward to welcoming thousands more visitors for each of these events.”

Sefton welcomes over 8.7 million visitors a year contributing over ÂŁ518 million to the local economy.

For more information about upcoming events in Southport please visit www.visitsouthport.com.

Sefton Council launches ant-idling campaign

4 June 2019
Ollie Cowan
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Categories: Front Page, Latest News

Sefton Council is encouraging residents to stop idling their car engines when out and about in the borough with its new anti-idling campaign launched today in celebration of World Environment Day (June 5).

This comes as the council continues to promote clean air initiatives to protect the health and wellbeing of residents and improve the quality of air in Sefton.

Car idling is an unnecessary cause of air pollution and releases harmful gases into the air that can have a negative impact on health and can cause serious consequences for vulnerable people living with lung conditions such as asthma.

The campaign will focus on hotspot areas such as schools where car idling is common and will also target taxi and bus drivers who often leave car engines running while waiting for passengers.

Cllr Ian Moncur, Sefton Council’s Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing said: “An idling engine can release as much pollution into the air as a moving one. Air pollution is a major threat to public health and by turning off your car engine while waiting in your car you can help make a big difference to the quality of air in Sefton.

“This campaign will help to raise awareness of this issue and encourage residents to make a positive behaviour change that will improve the environment and even save them money in the long run.”

Cllr Paulette Lappin, Sefton Council’s Cabinet Member for Regulation and Compliance added: “Car idling is a particular problem around schools as parents pick their children up and drop them off. This is not only a waste of fuel but also threatens the health of the children who use the roads to get to school.

“I urge parents and other idling-offenders like taxi and bus drivers to switch their engines off the next time they’re waiting for their passenger and make a difference to air quality in Sefton.”

 

 

 

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