Issue - meetings

Report of the Executive Director

The Committee considered the report of the Executive Director advising that Sefton would be the Liverpool City Region’s Borough of Culture for 2020 and that an outline programme and business plan had been developed for the year following consultation and engagement with partners and communities across the borough; that this feedback recommended a focus on local history and the environment as the two priority areas for the programme, with emphasis in all events, activities and initiatives on participation (inclusive of all communities), permanence (assets, activities and relationships lasting beyond 2020), partnerships (working with partner organisations and communities across the borough), and on engendering local pride in Sefton.

Members of the Committee made reference to the following which could be included in the Borough of Culture programme:

·       Alan John Percivale Taylor FBA, a British historian who specialised in 19th and 20th-century European diplomacy; was a journalist and a broadcaster and who became well known through his television lectures, who was born in Birkdale

·       the Labour Party Conferences held in Southport in 1930’s, at the former Garrick Theatre (now the Mecca bingo hall) that supported a motion for the establishment of the National Health Service

·       Dan Dare, a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories. Frank Hampson was educated at King George V School, a grammar school in Southport

·       Formby’s Viking connection and any assistance that could be gained in this respect from the production company responsible for the HBO series “Vikings” 

RESOLVED: That