June and July have been another very productive couple of months here at Liverpool Community Spirit. The Senior Youth Council planned and delivered a Yemeni Cultural evening in partnership with the Liverpool Arabic Centre and Merseyside Yemeni Association. The evening (which engaged over 80 people f...
Liverpool Community Spirit will be closed for the summer holidays from Friday 23rd July 2010 - Monday 9th August 2010. If you have any enquiries please email info@community-spirit.org.uk and we will get back to you as soon as possible. The Liverpool Community Spirit Team Liv...
Over the past two months the LCS Team have been very busy! We successfully completed run 19 of the Community Spirit Course at HMP Altcourse, and after the exciting pilot run of our new adult learning course, The Hungry Must be Fed, we now on our way to completing our second run of the course! The Se...
Liverpool Community Spirit works with people of all generations from diverse faith and cultural backgrounds, including those of no faith, to promote positive and enduring community spirit in our City.
Liverpool Community Spirit is an inter-faith and inter-cultural, community education initiative. Drawing on the insights of Liverpool’s rich diversity of communities we promote caring and inclusive community spirit across the region.
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The Liverbird designed by Rowse for the Queensway tunnel.
The shepherd's crook uniting our diverse communities or the 'flock'
Bottom character: 'ch' first root of word 'chaim' or 'life'
Top characters: Arabic numerals adding up to 99 (99 names of God/Allah)
Middle Left: Chinese character 'Ren' denoting kindness
Middle Right: Sanskrit 'Sangha' meaning community/brotherhood
ID:ea explores individuals and communities around the city in order to develop an educational resource pack that will allow young people to explore their identity and their community.
ID:ea will consider threats, issues and fears (through the eyes of young people) that communities face on a day to day basis, and how these threats, issues and fears manifest themselves in both the individual and the community. The project will also explore how organisations work to combat these issues through the services they provide to their service users/community/membership group.
This course gives you the opportunity to discover and explore six major world religions; Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism.
It allows you to investigate, ask questions and draw your conclusions as to the beliefs, practices and traditions of each religion.
The course is delivered in a relaxing environment designed to encourage the participant to feel comfortable in asking those questions that you would feel uncomfortable asking in other situations.
You will have an opportunity to meet people who practice their faith. These people are specially chosen by Liverpool Community Spirit because of their openness and willingness to address challenging questions in a non-confrontational atmosphere of trust, friendship and honest pursuit of truth.
The workshops involve practical activities in small groups: preparing, cooking and serving food for small groups in the local community there is story telling; and developing hospitality skills drawing from different cultural traditions a especially the Ethiopian tradition.
The faith and culture of Jamaica and Ethiopia gives us a concept of "The Hungry Must Be Fed" which is a prayer that all Jamaicans and Ethiopians would be familiar with in their reading of the Holy Bible.
The Hungry Must be Fed is in the process of creating a book on healthy food and inspirational stories about women to help the plight of women from East Africa who have been subjected to abuse by their employers when working in the Middle East, who are now seeking refuge in England. The book will be sold to raise money to pay for a Women from East Africa to be trained in counselling.
