Delivered 29 June 2022
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We'd like to initially install a 10 metre Cine Pro screen within our 430 seated auditorium within Anfield, Liverpool so that our community hub can also include film that's accessible to all.
Liverpool Lighthouse is a community hub for North Liverpool, a place where families, younger & older generations get together to take part in events & activities to help reduce isolation & engage them within the arts. Liverpool Lighthouse is home to a 430 seated auditorium where shows take place & was once ‘Gaumont Palace’ cinema when it opened in 1931. North Liverpool is calling out for this community cinema to be brought back to life. We want to purchase & install a 10 metre Cine Pro electrical screen & are asking the community to help. Whilst raising funds for this, we’ll also be looking for support through other means to raise funds to install the projector, ceiling mount & truss. We’ll be giving the venue that extra vintage feel back by adding to the deco that has remained preserved, such as putting the historical box office back into use and installing retro popcorn makers. Once we have raised funds for all areas of this project we will be a community film hub for everyone!
What we'll deliver:
Why it's a great idea:
Now more than ever this is a great opportunity to rekindle community film and bring the older and younger generation together again in 2021, once COVID-19 is no longer at the forefront of our lives. We will be helping to unite people once more, develop social skills, relieve stress and anxiety and help in the forming of new kinships too. Our area of Anfield & Everton within North Liverpool are not just economically but culturally classified deprived. Since 2004, we have developed several projects that engage with thousands of people every year. Over the years we have been visited by hundreds of people who have talked fondly about watching movies in our venue when they were children. Speaking among families we work with have confirmed a real appetite for our proposal particularly as there’s no cinemas nearby, “I was born in 1948 and grew up around here. I have many fond and happy memories of Liverpool Lighthouse being a picture house, I look forward to it reopening as a cinema" Brenda
Steps to get it done:
In an area that is both economically and culturally classified deprived, supporting such a project will result in creation of jobs and volunteering opportunities for community. Self-assurance will be booted through these, encouraging our volunteers and staff to venture outside our community to seek similar employment roles in the city centre venues, bringing confidence, wealth and further engagement into our community.
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Location Anfield
About the space
Our community in Anfield/Everton has over many years been consistently in top worst performing 10% in Government's deprivation Index statistics even though it is only 100 meters from the famous Liverpool Football Club stadium.
Council
Liverpool City Council
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Tickets are running out fast, so if you want to reserve seats for the opening you need to book ASAP. I've heard some people have had some issues with the email address provided so if that's you please email me direct with your name and the number of tickets you want on helen.brown@liverpoollighthouse.com.
As our amazing funders, we would love to invite you to the opening of the new Community Cinema in Anfield that you helped to make happen. You are VIP guests, so if you would like to come you and your families can book by emailing cinema@liverpoollighthouse.com and requesting up to 8 tickets. Mention you are Crowdfunder supporters of the project and we will reserve you the best seats in the house. But be quick, because once the link goes live to the public later this week it may sell out!
Check out the item on ITV local news about the Anfield Cinema Project! https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2021-09-20/lighthouse-cinema-returns-to-liverpool We're so grateful for your support that is making this possible and we're thrilled to announce the cinema will re-open as a cinema on the 90th anniversary of its original opening on December 21st 2021. We would love to invite you, our backers personally to the launch and keep in touch with you regarding films we will be showing as well as ask your opinions. You can find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Liverpoollighthousecommunity/ for updates or send me an email at helen.brown@liverpoollighthouse.com and I will add you to our email update list.
Brilliant news, thanks everyone!
Whoop, 50 people have pledged since fundraising began!
How will the money be spent?Total £27,156
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Total £27,156
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VolunteerWe are a registered charity (No. 1077293) formed in 1998 to work with others to transform the lives of the most vulnerable groups in our North Liverpool communities. Our centre, a former 450 seated performance venue, is a fully resourced community facility dedicated to developing performing art skills and more importantly using them to engage disadvantaged and hard to reach groups.
Since we started working in the Anfield/Everton area in 1999, the community has gone through various changes and yet consistently been one of the most deprived neighbourhoods in the UK (In 2015 report, 83.3% of residents remain in the Most Deprived 10% nationally).
Households have been plunged into deeper poverty over the last few years. 40% of children are in poverty (2016 Liverpool City Council Ward Profile). Worklessness is at 28% (a national average of 9%); many families face hunger and struggle to keep their homes. 89% of people we consulted want support to better manage their food and home energy budgets.
Our track record in impacting lives
In responding to our community challenges, we work to reduce isolation, improve life & employability skills and improve social cohesion. Each year we make in-depth difference to 850 lives, engaging a further 15,000 through performances in our venue. Our participants are a mix of isolated older people, disadvantaged young people, deprived families and refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants from minority backgrounds. Since 1999 we have engaged over 4,000 children & young people from the streets, trained over 1,400 adults, brought over 700 older people out of isolation, equipped 500 younger people with qualifications, help create 300 jobs. Over nearly 20 years we have developed successful, high impact programmes that improve health and well-being for over 60s, provide positive diversionary activities for young people that would otherwise be on street corners perpetrating minor crimes and antisocial behaviour, programmes that up-skill unemployed adults and migrants, support poor families to better manage their children, household budgets and well-being.
Project Owner: Liverpool Lighthouse The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
Contractor: Wigwam The team responsible for building or installing the project.
