CommunityIT’S OUR HAPPY
THIRD BIRTHDAY!
Red Neighbours, the club’s community programme, celebrates three years of
intense and inspiring work within the Anfield area and adjacent postcodes
Liverpool FC’s community programme Red
Neighbours marked its third birthday by
celebrating successfully supporting over
53,000 local people within the Anfield
community.
Since its launch in January 2017 the Red
Neighbours team has been working in Anield
and the surrounding postcodes of L4, 5 and 6,
helping to address four speciic areas of need:
food poverty and education; supporting the
elderly community; creating memorable
experiences for young people; and promoting
an active community.
All of the activities and events that Red
Neighbours delivers have been designed in
response to feedback provided by local people
following a consultation with key community
stakeholders prior to its launch.
The past three years have seen the Red
Neighbours team up with Fans Supporting
Foodbanks to help collect more than 13,000kg
of food and counting on matchdays for the
North Liverpool Foodbank in aid of local people
in crisis. Not only this, but the team have
delivered free breakfast clubs for local familiesto attend during school half-term and summer
holidays – with more than 1,800 local people
attending since the programme launched.
Social isolation amongst the local elderly
community is another area where the Red
Neighbours team have set out to make a
diference. The Monday Club, which is a
monthly social event at Anield for residents
aged 50+ is as popular as ever, and typically
welcomes more than 60 local residents every
month.
The team also run regular care home
and hospital visits, often alongside LFC staf
volunteers who are on-hand to help. Every year
in December the team provides a week of three
course Christmas lunches, which to date have
been attended by over 1,400 local pensioners.
November also saw the launch of Walking
Football in Kirkby at All Saints Catholic High
School, with Liverpool forward Xherdan Shaqiri
in attendance. A second location was added due
to increasing demand at its sessions in Anield,
which run twice a week – the sessions now run
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays for those
young-at-heart footballers.