Welcome to Liverpool World Centre
Liverpool World Centre (LWC) exists to make world issues relevant to the lives of young people. We do this by working with communities, teachers, educators, schools, charities, businesses and pupils across the region and beyond. Find out more under the ‘About Us’ tab.
FEBRUARY NEWS: For Fairtrade Fortnight 2018 from the 26th February – 11th March, we are asking you to ‘Come on in’ to Fairtrade to stand with farmers and close the door on exploitation through organising a Fairtrade event or lesson. We have lots of educational resources available to download from our Schools website, such as Samuel’s Fairtrade Story which gives children the chance to experience what life is like for a Kenyan coffee farmer through an immersive 360 video and supporting lesson plans.
Alongside this, we have special Event Packs which contain everything you need to put on a Fortnight event such as posters, leaflets and stickers – if you are interested in ordering these in bulk for distribution to schools in your area then please do let us know.
As promised, this short film shows some of our work of using simple technologies and processes to create localised counter narratives that challenge extremist views…
DECEMBER NEWS: Our event Sustainable Development Goals event on 13th December was fully booked with a range of local partners old and new.
For more information, our first post ‘Introducing the Sustainable Development Goals’ is now available to view. You can also find lots of useful information from TEESNet’s 2017 conference ‘Making the Sustainable Development Goals Real‘
NEW FOR NOVEMBER: We are pleased to announce the start of our Erasmus+ project ‘P4CE’ with 5 European partners. The project will look at how educators engage with extremism. Here’s a case study from our partners in Sweden ‘challenging right wing extremism’
