Liverpool Architecture Festival 2024 (LAF24) will be hosted from 1st to 30th June 2024 inclusive, delivering over 100 free-to-attend events. These events will include walking and building tours, workshops, and symposiums for young people and families, academics, students and professionals, and community groups throughout the Liverpool City Region. LAF24 will be titled 'Neighbourhood' with the intention of connecting people with their local built environment, and engaging with the architecture that is closest to them, with a focus on the key values of inclusivity, climate and community. There will be an emphasis on physical participatory events where we encourage people to participate, and learn about their local built environment throughout the six boroughs of St. Helens, Sefton, Knowsley, Halton, Wirral and Liverpool. LAF24 will be the third iteration, with LAF21, and LAF22 having been successfully delivered in October 2021, and June 2022 respectively. Previous Festival brochures can be found on our website: https://www.laf-uk.com/

The funding will be utilised to deliver free architecture walking tours for 4 local community groups within the Liverpool City Region, one each week of the Festival. The expertly guided 2-hour tours will be in a location of the group’s choice and curated to engage communities with their local architecture and neighbourhoods. LAF will work with a diverse range of community groups. Each tour will accommodate 25 people at a cost of £125. The allocated £500 funding would deliver the tours for 100.