Pride, Poetry and People of Colour (POC)

25 February 2020

In honour of LGBT History Month 2020, the young people of GYRO (YPAS’s LGBTQ+ Youth Group) curated a mini pop display in the education room at the International Slavery Museum.  The theme for LGBT+ History Month 2020 is Poetry, Prose and Plays.  GYRO young people focused their display on LGBT+ people of colour who have […]

#TicketToPride will shortly be arriving in Liverpool. Are you ready to jump on board?

24 February 2020

Our Ticket To Pride campaign is a North West-wide arts-based campaign challenging LGBT-phobic hate crime on public transport. Vast numbers of people across our country use our public transport systems to go about daily business but, for some, this can be an unsafe and challenging part of what should be a standard routine. British Transport […]

Liverpool’s ‘Drop Everything and Read’ supporting emotional wellbeing

11 February 2020

On World Book Day 5th March schools across the city will be dropping everything and reading at 10 am to showcase the importance of reading for enjoyment. This Drop Everything and Read session is part of the Liverpool Readathon, a citywide sponsored read with the aim of encouraging children to read for pleasure and to […]

NOW Festival 2020

10 January 2020

Children and young people from across Liverpool will come together to perform in the city’s fifth annual NOW Festival next month (February).

GYRO at the TATE Exchange – Exploring identity through the lens of LGBTQ+ youth in Liverpool

26 November 2019

 “Masquerade: Discover Your Other” –was a fabulous exhibition over at the Tate Exchange Liverpool that our young people from GYRO have been working on.

Bullybusters wear odd socks for Anti-bullying Week

7 November 2019

Bullybusters are inviting children and young people and their work colleagues to join them in wearing odd socks to celebrate Anti-Bullying week, which runs from the 11-15th November.

Education in Mind – mental health conference for schools

31 October 2019

Over three hundred teachers, headteachers and school governors from across Liverpool attended the city’s first education-focused mental health conference at ACC Liverpool on Friday (October 18).

CAMHS Offer now includes digital mental health counselling support

1 October 2019

XenZone, a digital mental health pioneer, has been commissioned by Liverpool NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to provide its popular Kooth mental health and emotional wellbeing support service to all 14-25-year-olds in Liverpool. Kooth will be closely integrated with the Liverpool CAMHS Partners (Alder Hey, Mersey Care, YPAS, MYA, PSS, Barnardos Young Carers, Bullybusters, ADHD […]