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Royal Marines Band Concert

30/9/2017

 
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The Lord-Lieutenant and Mrs Bibby were joined by the High Sheriff and Mrs Burrows and the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and the Lady Mayoress at the Royal Marines Band Concert in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

League of Welldoers

25/9/2017

 
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The Lord-Lieutenant, together with the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and the Deputy Mayor of Wirral attended the concert of the League of Welldoers.
The League of Welldoers is Liverpool's oldest charity.   It receives no funding from either local council or central government for its core activities and relies almost entirely on the generosity of individuals and its own fund raising activities to make ends meet.  Its activities include:
  • A pensioners club which meets every weekday
  • Daily lunches (Monday to Friday) from 11.30am till 12.45pm – all cooked on the premises
  • Monthly Shows 
  • Weekly chair exercises
  • Every Monday at 1.30pm ‘Down Memory Lane’ group
  • Regular concerts, holidays and outings.
  • A charity shop on the premises, open weekdays between 10.30am-1.30pm.
  • Meeting rooms for groups
  • Catering for meetings
  • Off road parking for 30 cars
  • Community garden, receiving outstanding award at North West in Bloom 2011 presentation
  • Lee Jones Amateur Boxing Club for ages 8 and over
Since April 2008 it has received an annual grant from Liverpool City Councils Community Resources Programme, which enables it to provide additional services which include, twice weekly shopping trips, outings during the Summer months and transport for other organisations to join the League for daily lunches and the many other activities on offer.

Queen's Award for Enterprise to St Helens Chamber of Commerce

22/9/2017

 
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Deputy Lieutenant, Mr David Steer QC DL; The Mayoress Mrs Sylvia Pearson; Graham Worsley, Chairman, St Helens. Chamber; Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Merseyside, Mr Mark Blundell; Kath Boullen MBE, Chief Executive, St Helens Chamber; The Mayor of St Helens. Photo: St Helens Star
The flag of the Queen's Award for Enterprise flies over the St Helens Chamber of Commerce.  The Lord-Lieutenant presented the most prestigious award for commerce and industry to the Chamber for its innovation and leadership in business and commerce in the area.  The annual Queen’s Awards recognise British businesses that have excelled and the Chamber was one of just six winners of the new Promoting Opportunity Award, introduced for the first time this year.Accepting the award St Helens Chamber chairman Graham Worsley, said:
“We are delighted to have been awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in recognition of the work we do to promote opportunity and support social mobility.
“The commitment of our staff is exemplary and the work we do makes a huge impact on people and businesses in St Helens.
“The Chamber is an asset to St Helens and we are proud to have had this recognised at the highest level.”

HRH The Duke of Cambridge at the Urgent Care and Trauma Centre at Aintree

14/9/2017

 
As part of a day of visits to Merseyside, HRH The Duke of Cambridge visited Aintree University Hospital to open formally the new Urgent Care and Trauma Centre (UCAT) on 14th September.  He was accompanied throughout by the Lord-Lieutenant.

The £35m facility, which took four years to construct, is one of the most modern emergency centres in the country.

During his visit the Duke met clinical staff from Aintree and its partner organisations, including the North West Air Ambulance. The Duke served as a pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance service from March 2015 until July this year.

Watched by the Lord-Lieutenant and Dr Neil Goodwin, the Hospital Chairman, he was presented with a posy of flowers, including sea holly, Merseyside’s county flower, by Helena Curry from Croxteth, who has notched up more than 1,650 hours volunteering in the hospital’s Emergency Department since 2011.

New Lord-Lieutenant takes post

13/9/2017

 
Mr Mark Blundell takes post today as Merseyside's sixth Lord-Lieutenant since the county was created in 1974.  He follows his distinguished predecessor, Dame Lorna Muirhead, whose last act as Lord-Lieutenant was to give the 150th Roscoe Lecture.
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Mr Mark Blundell

League of Welldoers Farewell to Dame Lorna Muirhead

2/9/2017

 
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On her retirement as Lord-Lieutenant and as President of the League of Welldoers, Dame Lorna Muirheady was presented with a clock by Mr Ian Rankin, the Chairman. Dame Lorna will continue as Life President.

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