BLOG: National Living Wage Week and Marmot Community Status

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As part of National Living Wage week, Liverpool City Council’s Deputy Mayor Cllr Jane Corbett, who is also the Cabinet Member for Finance and Resources, tells us more about the city’s plans to achieving ‘Marmot Community Status’, and how improving outcomes for local people – enabling them to live longer, healthier and poverty free lives … Read more

BLOG: Liverpool is launching a ‘Good Food’ strategy – what does that mean exactly?

Kevin Peacock

Here to explain is Kevin Peacock, the Chief Executive of St Andrew’s Community Network (home of North Liverpool Foodbank). Kevin is also the co-Chair of the Liverpool Food Insecurity Task Group and a trustee of the ‘Feeding Liverpool’ charity. The man is clearly hungry.  I watch as he unwraps six snack-size blocks of cheese and … Read more

Liverpool launches ‘Good Food Plan’

Good Food Plan

Liverpool is to launch its Good Food Plan on Thursday 7 October – a strategy to create a city where everyone can eat good food and address key issues related to the food we eat. Phase One of the Good Food Plan is about tackling the immediate and urgent challenges that the city is facing … Read more

Food Insecurity Task Force announces development of Liverpool’s ‘Good Food Plan’

Residents and community organisations are invited to take part in the research, mapping and listening phase of the project. Liverpool’s Food Insecurity Task Force has announced the development of Liverpool’s Good Food Plan, a strategy to create a city “where everyone can eat good food.” The actions in Liverpool’s ‘Good Food Plan’ – slated to … Read more