Fundraiser launched to save Liverpool Pride

With just seven weeks to go, Sahir, Liverpool’s longest-standing LGBTQ+ charity, has stepped up to help facilitate and coordinate a city-wide, community-led Liverpool Pride celebration for 2025.

In the wake of LCR Pride Foundation’s difficult decision not to deliver Pride in Liverpool this year, Sahir has responded to calls from across the community to ensure that Pride still takes place this summer. After listening to local voices, the message is clear: Pride still matters – and our city still needs it.

Working in collaboration with local volunteers, creatives, grassroots organisers and fellow LGBTQ+ organisations, Sahir is helping to bring people together to deliver a different kind of Pride – one that is inclusive, accessible, community-centred and proudly rooted in Liverpool’s queer history and activism.

The programme, which is still in development, hopes to feature:

• A powerful rally at St George’s Plateau
• A peaceful protest march through the city
• Youth and family-friendly spaces
• A safe, welcoming community hub
• A vibrant Pride Quarter street celebration platforming local queer talent

Sahir says it is proud to be working alongside LCR Pride Foundation, Homotopia, and many more artists, activists, and grassroots groups to shape and support this people-powered Pride – one that truly reflects the diversity, resilience, and creativity of our cities LGBTQ+ communities.

But to make this happen, they need your help.

At the same time as stepping up for Pride, Sahir is also facing urgent financial pressures in delivering its vital frontline services – which support LGBTQ+ people and those living with HIV across the Liverpool City Region. Right now, the charity needs to raise £20,000 every month just to keep providing the lifeline services that so many rely on.

With this in mind, Sahir has launched a fundraiser with a target of £60,000, to help deliver Pride 2025 and safeguard the charity’s year-round work.

Your donation will:

• Support the delivery of a meaningful, inclusive and safe Liverpool Pride 2025
• Help keep Sahir’s essential LGBTQ+ and HIV support services running
• Show that Liverpool stands strong for its LGBTQ+ communities – especially in times of challenge

Please give what you can, and share this campaign far and wide.

Because Pride is people-powered.
Because community comes first.
Because Liverpool’s LGBTQ+ future deserves to thrive.

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