FPC returns as MWOTY headline sponsor for 2024
Ainsdale-based independent financial planning and investment management firm, FPC, has announced that it will return as headline sponsor for the Merseyside Women of the Year (MWOTY) Awards 2024. The women-led business stepped up as the headline sponsor for the 2023 event after five years as category sponsor and has supported this year’s winners – Heather […]
Hatter’s Scoops Digital Marketing Agency of the Year
Hatter’s Digital Agency, has been named Digital Marketing Agency of the Year in the Corporate Livewire Global Awards. Hatters was founded by Sarah Jackson, runner up in the Entrepreneur category at the MWOTY Awards 2023. Comments from judges at the Corporate Livewire Global Awards said: “Hatter’s excels in authentic, transformative content and offers a diverse […]
MWOTY 2022 Finalist Launches ADHD Coaching
Ithalia Johnson, finalist in the MWOTY Arts, Culture and Media category in 2022, has launched a transformative ADHD coaching experience “Empower Your ADHD Journey”. The coaching has been developed by drawing from Ithalia’s own diverse identity as a woman with mixed African and Irish heritage, a mother, cultural leader, and artist living with ADHD. Ithalia’s […]
Team 1C Launches Pilot Scheme with Women’s Hospital
Team 1C, founded by MWOTY 2023 ‘Inspirational Women’ award winner, Claire Cathcart, is to launch a pilot scheme with Liverpool Women’s neonatal unit. The pilot scheme will enable parents/carers to access meals during their time in hospital , as well as peer support. The pilot is to last 12 weeks and the charity is hoping […]
Community Foundation for Merseyside supports BlackFest 2023
Category sponsor and charity partner of the 2023 Merseyside Women of the Year Awards, the Community Foundation for Merseyside, were delighted to support BlackFest, a Black arts festival founded in 2018 by MWOTY 2022 Woman of the Year, Jubeda Khatun. The organisation sponsored both BlackFest’s fashion show and its 2023 celebration event at Sefton Park […]
Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Sunshine Group Update
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so we took the opportunity to catch up with our 2023 ‘Women Making a Difference’ award winner, Ann Coffey, who runs the Sunshine Group breast cancer support group at Liverpool University Hospital Trust. Ann was recognised for her amazing work with the group over the past ten years, while […]
Team 1C Ball Raises £25K
The Team 1C Stars and Stripes Ball, which took place on Saturday 30th September, has raised £25,000 for a range of incredible charities. The beneficiaries of the funds are Whiston & St Helen’s Hospital Charity, Ronald McDonald House Liverpool, Liverpool Women’s Hospital Charity and Smiling Hearts Charity, who will be doing heart surgery camp in […]
Parent Promise Founder Launches Yoni Health
The winner of the 2023 Entrepreneur award, Emma Jarvis, who was recognised at this year’s awards for founding Parent Promise, a collective which works with businesses to support employees throughout pregnancy and parenthood, has launched a brand new venture. Working with business partner, Karli Büchling, Emma has launched Yoni Health, a pioneering period biobank, and […]
Alfie’s Squad Kicks Off Pilot Programme
After five years of hard work and determination, the first welcome meeting of the pilot group for Alfie’s Squad – a CIC supporting children bereaved by suicide – has taken place. Alfie’s Squad is currently providing weekly sessions at The People’s Place, supporting individuals aged 7 to 17 who have been bereaved by suicide or self-inflicted […]
YolanDa Brown to Headline BlackFest 2023
Some of Liverpool’s most iconic venues set the stage for a huge Black Arts festival in the city in August, September and October 2023, showcasing award-winning artists such as YolanDa Brown OBE DL. BlackFest 2023 will feature live music, theatre, film, spoken word, visual arts, fashion and more — with an exciting programme of Black […]