Hope Street Hotel Celebrates 20 Years
Liverpool city centre’s first independent, privately-owned, boutique hotel and MWOTY supporter, Hope Street Hotel, has celebrated its 20th birthday! Welcoming its first guests in 2004, Hope Street Hotel marked the beginning of a new era for hotels in Liverpool. Located in the Georgian Quarter, in the street famous for being bookended by the two cathedrals, […]
Calendar Girls Fundraise for Sunshine Group
Sunshine Group members and their supporters have come together to shoot a 2025 calendar to raise money for the group, which has supported members through their breast cancer journey at the Liverpool University Hospital Trust for the past 10 years. Hope Street Hotel provided the venue for the shoot, while photographer Kayleigh King of Wild […]
MWOTY Winner Natalie Denny to Publish Second Book
MWOTY 2022 Social Impact award winner, Natalie Denny, will publish her second book Keisha Jones is a Force of Nature on 1st February 2024. Following the success of her debut fiction, Keisha Jones Takes on the World, which was published by Little Tiger UK in 2023, Natalie’s latest book is another novel for older children […]
Children’s Mental Health Week: “We need to radically improve support services”
Next month, from February 5th – 11th is Children’s Mental Health Week. It’s a week that shines a spotlight on children’s mental health and is vitally important to MWOTY 2023 Community Change winner, Amy Smythe a.k.a The Worry Wizard. We caught up with Amy to find out more about the awareness period and how The […]
Wealth & investment firm to support MWOTY 2024
Nominations for the Merseyside Women of the Year awards have opened for 2024, with Investec Wealth & Investment (UK), part of the Rathbones Group Plc, being revealed as new category sponsor for the ‘Entrepreneur’ award. The wealth management firm manages over £40bn assets for its clients. It has an office in Liverpool, with roots in the city […]
Halle’s Hub Raises £6K+ with Christmas Regifting Sale
MWOTY 2023 winners, Heather Evans and June Russell, have raised an incredible £6256.35 to support local children through a “Christmas Regifting Sale”. The annual event, which took place in November, is the single biggest fundraiser for the Halle O’Brien CIC each year, with this year’s sale more than doubling last year’s total of £2,500 raised. […]
Lucky’s Café+ Launches Winter Initiatives
Lucky’s Café+, launched by MWOTY 2023 “Women to Watch” winner Lucky Ali, has announced a programme of winter initiatives to support the local community. In collaboration with the Wirral Shahjalal Mosque (Birkenhead) and Wirral Council, Lucky’s Café+ is offering free hot meals to those in need. Lucky said: “We believe that a hot meal can […]
Hatter’s Announce Nextelligence Partnership
Hatter’s Digital Agency has revealed that it will partner with consultancy and artificial intelligence (AI) automation intelligence agency, Nextelligence, in 2024. The team at Hatters will be working with AI Consultant, entrepreneur and generative AI image specialist, Darien Davis, and project manager, trainer and AI ethics expert, Jericho McClellan, on a number of exciting projects. […]
Lucky Ali awarded Learning, Teaching & Student Experience Award 2023
MWOTY 2023 “Women to Watch ” winner, Lucky Ali, has been recognised for excellence in learning, teaching, and enhancement of student experience. Lucky was awarded as part of her team, which developed the Enterprise in the Life Sciences Programme, at the Careers and Employability at the University of Liverpool, the Learning, Teaching & Student Experience […]
Double Awards Win for the Big Help Project
The Big Help Project (BHP) has enjoyed double award success at the Liverpool Chamber Awards, winning the Community Impact Award and the Health and Wellbeing Award for Yoga Nation, the health and wellbeing arm of BHP. The organisation is no stranger to celebration for its work, with its Assistant Chief Executive Officer, Colette Goulding, being nominated […]