New partnership announced for Liverpool’s Pride 2026

Liverpool’s Pride 2026 will go ahead, organised by the city’s LGBTQ+ and HIV charity Sahir and the LCR Pride Foundation.

It will take place on and around Saturday, July 25.

The announcement was made today after an agreement between the two organisations to join forces to ensure the annual parade and celebrations continue.

This year’s festival will be officially known as ‘Liverpool’s Pride – powered by Sahir & LCR Pride Foundation’.

The news comes after doubt and uncertainty clouded Pride last year.

LCR Pride Foundation originally cancelled the event ‘with great sadness’ due to rising costs and a lack of funding.

It was Sahir who stepped in, declaring at the time:

“Thanks to the passion, determination and sheer graft of local artists, activists, organisations and allies, we’ve turned things around to make Pride happen.”

And it was Sahir who renamed the event Liverpool’s Pride, to reflect a shift ‘in ownership, in purpose, and in place’.

Liverpool’s Pride 2026 will continue the identity shaped through the community engagement of 2025, and return, say organisers, with a ‘strong community-first approach, rooted locally, led by lived experience, and shaped by LGBTQ+ people across the city region’.

Sahir will lead overall co-ordination and delivery of the event, and LCR Pride Foundation will lead the muster, parade and community stalls.

A new community forum will be set up to help shape Pride 2026.

Organisers have assured that planning is already underway to create and deliver a Pride that’s inclusive, accessible, community led and ‘full of joy and purpose’.

Full details on how people can get involved are to be revealed soon.