This year Liverpool Twestival is raising money for Liverpool 13
based charity Lister Steps. Our event will take place on 24th
March at Pan-Am Bar in Liverpool's Albert Dock. We've some
fantastic prizes lined up that can be won in our raffle - please dig
deep !
Lister Steps is a community based organisation, founded by parents
for parents back in 1997. They offer family support services and
childcare to families living in and around Tuebrook. Tuebrook is in
the top 1% of disadvantaged UK wards.
Lister Steps care for over 700 children aged between 6 weeks and 14
years each week.
Lister Steps operate from a series of 29 leaky portakabins on
the site of the Old Lister Drive Primary School. Many of the children
who go to Lister Steps experience disadvantage and the organisation
works extremely hard to redress the balance and give the children
opportunities to learn skills that will help them achieve their
potential both academically and socially.
Lister Steps also enables parents to go out and find work, training
or continue with their education and achieve their own potential. As
well as supporting local families into work they employ 24 local
people, many of whom were unskilled and unemployed before working with
the charity.
During 2011 Lister Steps need to fundraise £10,000 to carry
out essential repairs to their buildings and grounds to ensure that
the building is safe and that the children who currently benefit from
the services are able to continue to do so in the future.