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The biennial Liverpool Community Impact Awards take place in March 2025 to celebrate the achievements and challenges of individuals and organisations that make a positive impact to their community. The Community Impact Award celebrates those who are making a difference in their communities through charitable contribution and community-focused projects and initiatives.
Writing on the Wall ask that you please consider nominating us for Liverpool’s Community Impact Award for our 25th Anniversary as an organisation.
Writing on the Wall is Liverpool’s longest-running Writing & literature and festival. We believe in creativity, community, diversity, artistic excellence and social and economic justice. We celebrate and inspire creativity and writing in all its forms through inquiry, debate, performance, projects, and publishing.
Every year throughout May we deliver WoWFEST, a month-long programme featuring local, national and international writers and artists, and a full programme of events for Liverpool’s Black History Month Celebrations in October. Across the past twenty-five years we have delivered hundreds of workshops and projects, working with and supporting thousands of people from diverse communities in the Liverpool City Region.
Over the years our flagship What’s Your Story? (WYS) projects have worked with targeted communities to share stories and experiences from different walks of life. Some WYS projects have included It’s Not Ok: Stories of Domestic Abuse Survivors, Time to Breathe: Liverpool’s Response to the Murder of George Floyd, No Offence: Women in the Criminal Justice System, Kinship: The Lives of Young Carers, What’s Your Granby Story: Stories of Black Liverpool’s Spiritual Home in the Granby Triangle and many more.
For the past five years, our award-winning Write to Work course has supported adult learners across the Liverpool City Region through creative writing education to find new careers, volunteering, furthering education and becoming established professional writers.
Our latest project, ReCITE, led by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, with WoW as the leading creative partner, is built around using the power of creativity to explore how storytelling can be better integrated into community and health systems to tackle health inequalities in some of the region’s most deprived areas. WoW is currently delivering three What’s Your Story? Projects in Toxteth, Kirkby and Bootle, working with participants from these communities to address issues of healthcare for working class people within the UK.
Community, creativity and connection is at the heart of everything we do at WoW; we would be honoured if you would consider nominating us for Liverpool’s Community Impact Award for our 25th Anniversary.
Watch the WOWFEST: Fahrenheit 2024 Recap here!
“Best festival in the world!” Irvine Welsh
“Best literature festival in Britain.” Beatrix Campbell
“I am still in complete awe from WoWFEST this weekend! The best events I have been to in a long time – I walked away feeling so fired up and inspired.” WoWFEST Audience Member
“A great community event brought together different people together from all walks of life” Write to Work book launch
“This coure quite literally changed my life. It has been one of the best things I have ever done…For the first time ever I have started to believe that my voice is important and has value” Write to Work Participant
