News and events

Congratulations to those winners below, please contact Prescot Town Council on 0151 426 3933 to claim your prize. You must provide your winning raffle ticket upon collection of the prize.

As part of the 17th Annual Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts, Prescot Festival will be hosting a virtual art display, and everyone – whoever and wherever you are – is welcome to participate.

The theme is TIME.

Submission Requirements:

• Your artwork should be inspired by the theme, ‘time’, and can be created using any medium and style
• Anyone of any age and any geographical location can submit work – only one entry per person please!
• The art must be your own work
• To be part of the art display, take a photograph of your work and email it to prescotfestival@gmail.com before 1st June 2021, together with your first name (and age if 16 years or under). Please put “Community Art Display” as the subject.
• By submitting a photograph you agree to have your work displayed on our website and Facebook page as part of the 17th Annual Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts
• The art display will be available on our website and Facebook page from Wednesday 23rd June 2021
• The Festival Committee reserves the right to be selective (eg, regarding quantity of submissions, etc)
• Entry to the 2021 Prescot Festival Community Art Display is FREE. (Note, this is not a competition!)

Click here to download a poster (PDF) featuring all the guidelines – perhaps you can share it with friends or print off to pin up in your school, church or community centre?

Knowsley Family and Community Education (FACE) have organised some great courses which will all be held at Prescot Town Hall. A list of the courses available are below with links to the booking portal. If you need any further information please contact FACE on 0151 443 5386. Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment.

Mindfulness – starting 12/04/21 for 6 lessons – 10am-12pm click to book

Aromatherapy – starting 12/04/21 for 6 lessons – 12.30pm – 2.30pm click to book

Local History of Prescot – starting 13/04/21 for 6 lessons – 10am – 11.30pm click to book

Find Out Your Family Tree – starting 13/04/21 for 6 lessons – 12pm – 2pm click to book

Floristry – starting 27/04/21 for 6 lessons – 2.30pm – 4.30pm click to book

Floristry – starting 28/04/21 for 6 lessons – 10.00am – 12.00pm click to book

Introduction to Mental Health First Aid – 21/04/21 for 1 lesson – 10am – 1pm click to book

Mentoring Level 2 – starting 5/05/21 for 12 weeks – 1.00pm – 4.00pm click to book

For more details click here Face Forward Courses starting April 2021

Prescot Town Council are working with the Friends of KGV Brown’s Field and Knowsley Council to obtain funding to replace the old junior play ground at Brown’s Field with a new exciting space.

We need your help to provide a persuasive argument to the funders that this is something we need on the site, so please spare us 5 minutes to give us your views on the Playground and the wider master plan for the site through this survey.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TJY7SBX

The Friends have already raised £10,000 towards what we hope will be around a £70,000 to £80,000 project. Below is an idea of what the new play ground could look like.

King George Memorial Play Area Picture Sheet

The Master Plan 

The master plan covers the whole site and has been developed using feedback we have received to date. As with the playground we will use your feedback to help attract external funding to make the plan a reality.

The Mayor of Prescot, Cllr Mark Burke will be selling raffle tickets for his upcoming charity raffle.

The raffle will be drawn on St. Georges Day, Friday 23rd April 2021. Tickets are £1 each and can be purchased from Prescot Town Hall, Monday to Friday between the hours of 9.30am – 4.00pm.

We have had some great donations from our local businesses as usual and the list of prizes can be seen below with more prizes being donated everyday:

Watch out for Our Lady’s Catholic Primary School, Prescot on tonight’s (17/03/21) BBC North West Tonight show at 6.30pm.

They are just one of the schools that have been supported by Prescot Town Council’s Laptop Recycling Project.

We received a lovely video thank you from Our Lady’s Catholic Primary School for providing recycled laptops for their pupils. Check it out on the BBC North West Tonight programme which aired on 17th March 2021. You can see the clip at 21mins into the programme.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000tbfp/north-west-tonight-evening-news-17032021

The Mayor of Prescot, Cllr Mark Burke is raising money for the Mayor’s Charity with his St Patricks Day 10 mile March from Prescot Town Hall to Liverpool Town Hall.

Please donate and support this very worthy local cause.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/mark-burke-3?utm_term=x4ABvRdme

Final Knowsley Community Conversations

Invitation to the final Knowsley Community Conversations Workshop- Tuesday 2^nd March, 6-8pm

You’re invited to attend the final in a series of workshops that have taken place with people from Knowsley looking at how the community has been responding to the pandemic. We’ve run several events so far and had lively and informative discussions with people and organisations across the borough about life in the pandemic and how the community has responded.

In this final event we will be specifically looking at how the community can build on its successes post-pandemic and address some of the issues that have emerged during it. We’ll be asking how the council and community sector can work differently to get things done more effectively, building on what we’ve learnt from the past year. We want to ensure that the community’s voice continues to play an important role in these conversations and are inviting all those who have been actively involved in the community’s response to join us.

The event will be on Tuesday 2^nd March, 6-8pm, via Zoom.

More details are in the attached pdf. You can sign-up via this Eventbrite link, or by responding to this email: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/knowsley-community-conversations-final-workshop-tickets-141128014691

Spaces are limited, and will go on a first come, first served basis.

We really hope you can make it!

The National Association of Local Councils has re launched it’s Make a Change Campaign which is aimed at encouraging more people to stand for election.

Back in February 2019 our very own Cllr Kai Taylor was asked to give his story as to why he stood for election.

For more information of Make a Change and to view Cllr Taylor’s video please follow this link

https://www.nalc.gov.uk/elections?utm_source=MEMBERS&utm_campaign=cafef00561-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_08_03_15_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_206970988f-cafef00561-328198893&mc_cid=cafef00561&mc_eid=5ad5fcfeb1#cllr-kai-taylor-prescot-town-council