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We have kicked off a Windrush awareness campaign to encourage more people (but this time mostly not of Caribbean heritage) to apply to the Home Office Windrush documentation and compensation schemes. The crisis did not only affect people from the Caribbean. Commonwealth citizens from countries like Nigeria, India, Ghana, kenya, Cameroon and South Africa were […]

With ever increasing gas and electricity bills exacerbated by a cost of living crisis, the Chief Executive Officer of Ofgem (Office of Gas and Electricity Markets) that regulates the energy markets has confirmed the regulator is still doing its best to protect everyone including vulnerable energy customers from energy companies mostly interested only in making

Twelve months after a Citizen Outreach Coalition Liverpool centred energy savings awareness project was launched, more than 450 people, most of them from ethnic minority backgrounds have received vital advice that has helped them reduce their gas and electricity bills. People have benefited from the advice through dozens of home visits, telephone advice, community events

An end to austerity, expanding free school meals to all children in school, increasing peoples’ incomes and urgent social housing reforms are some of the recommendations some keynote speakers made at the first ever cost of Living crisis (COL) conference organised by the Liverpool Hope university in its Shaw Street Campus on Wednesday June 28

Cooking is usually not among the ten life skills that includes problem solving, decision making, critical thinking, communications skills, self awareness, interpersonal relations, creative thinking, empathy etc However, like all human endeavours, requires anyone who wants to cook to use the above skills. We all eat everyday to stay alive. With the proliferation of food

Community organisation Citizen Outreach Coalition Sierra Leone (COC-SL) has launched an ambitious three years campaign to reduce the massive damage plastic bags cause to the environment across Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. Shoppers have been depending on free plastic bags when shopping for groceries and small items for a long time, unaware of the

Young People Learn Healthy Cooking Skills Dozens of Young people across Liverpool have been taking part in cooking sessions and learning how to source nutritious ingredients, cook & eat so they can avoid more expensive fast food alternatives a lot of their peers like. Some were so enthused in the cooking classes they say they

More Liverpool Black and ethnic minority communities have agreed to join the fight to protect the climate and environment to secure the future for their children and grandchildren as charity Citizen Outreach Coalition COC continues its climate awareness campaign. During a campaign event with Friends of Liverpool, a social meeting of mostly migrants from Cameroon