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Liverpool Pride Needs You!
Charity Calls Out For Support
SINCE previously announcing a downsize
in scale to this year's festival, Liverpool Pride is now launching new campaigns
for the local and business communities to gain financial support to sustain
future Pride events in the City .
At a time when the UK is celebrating the USA's decision on legalisation of gay
marriage by turning their social media images rainbow colours, the organisers of
Liverpool Pride charity has faced difficulties in attracting additional sponsors
to help fund the format that attendees have come to expect in recent years.
In response to this, businesses are encouraged to sign up to become a Friend of
Liverpool Pride where they are able to make a donation to the charity, helping
to sustain ongoing work and to secure funding for 2016 and beyond.
By making an annual pledge of £250 towards the charity, Friends of Liverpool
Pride businesses will be listed on the Liverpool Pride website on a dedicated
page, which will include links to their own web pages, as well as social media
support to Liverpool Pride's 28,000 combined Twitter and Facebook followers.
Liverpool Pride also invite local businesses to get involved in a fundraising
day they are launching, called Dress to Impress. This year's theme is Love is No
Crime and on Friday 31 July the charity are encouraging businesses and their
staff to raise money by dressing in their most wild and wonderful
interpretations of the theme as well as the trademark rainbow colours. Companies
can then share their flamboyant and colourful outfits by posting their selfies
on facebook and twitter using hashtag #loveisnocrime. This will help launch the
Liverpool Pride programme of events on 1 August and 2 August 2015.
The Liverpool public will also be able to show their support by making donations
from as little as £2.50 to the charity via a donation button on the Liverpool
Pride
website.
Despite the changes to this year's Pride, the event will go ahead for the 6th
consecutive year on Saturday, 1 August 2015, with event highlight the Pride March and
the Michael Causer Vigil remaining the key focus of the event.
A programme of activities will also take place across the City , including
market, education and community zone, workshops, guest speakers, acoustic music,
a mobile cinema, and a family zone, with locations including Stanley Street
Quarter.
The date of Liverpool Pride always coincides with the anniversary of when
murdered gay teenager Michael Causer tragically lost his life. Michael died on 2
August 2008, and the festival was specifically created in his memory as a way to
celebrate his life and empower the LGBT communities. This year's Liverpool Pride
takes place a week before what would have also been Michael's 26th birthday.
Liverpool Pride 2015 is being supported by main sponsors Homes For Everyone and
Liverpool City Council. Supporters also include After Adoption, Merseyside Fire
and Rescue Service, Hugh Baird College, Unison North West LGBT, and Barefoot Wine.
The dedicated team at Liverpool Pride, which is run entirely by volunteers, work
tirelessly to deliver an event which will make LGBT community and City of
Liverpool proud and are calling out to local businesses and the community to get
behind them and show their support.
Businesses interested in becoming a Friend of Liverpool Pride should get in
touch via the Liverpool Pride via visiting:-
LiverpoolPride.Co.UK where people can also register to
volunteer or find out about sponsorship opportunities. Those interested in holding a Dress to Impress day should contact Michael Carey
at:-
michael.carey@liverpoolpride.co.uk to discuss any details and to arrange
funds to be paid to the charity.
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