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HME Residents Association recently applied to Prescot Town Council for community funding of £500 to enable them to produce mastectomy cushions for breast cancer patients within the local area.

The association are not only helping to support local breast cancer patients but they are also enabling residents within Prescot to come together to put their sewing skills to good use and help to reduce social isolation by giving the group a focus.

Here are some photographs of the group working on the cushions and the finished product.

Don’t miss your opportunity to see this iconic local musician playing at Prescot Cables this Friday. ‘Amazingly’ there are still some tickets left.

Visit Prescot Cables website to book yours

Friends, Prescotians, Countrymen, lend me your ears!

Would you like to find out more about Prescot’s Elizabethan and Jacobean history and help shape how we tell the town’s incredible story in the Exhibition Space at Shakespeare North?

Shakespeare North are creating a new group – would you like to get involved and Break the Ice? The first meeting is at Prescot Town Hall on Monday 13 May 6pm-8pm.

Pilates Class every Saturday at Prescot Town Hall

10.30am – 11.30am.

Pilates Poster

Enjoy a day of heritage entertainment at Prescot’s Elizabethan Fayre

Prescot’s popular Elizabethan Fayre will return on Saturday 4 May and promises to be a great family day out with lots of new heritage attractions this year.

Prescot has a unique history and heritage as it was the only place in England (outside of London) to have an indoor playhouse in Elizabethan times, and this wonderful cultural heritage will be celebrated at the fayre.

A traditional parade will launch the festivities, at 11am, as the town commemorates its special history with medieval music, dance, arts and crafts in a recreation of its famous Tudor fayres.

Visitors will be able to try their hand at many free traditional crafts including willow making and friendship bracelets using traditional twist cord and braid weaving.

Fayre-goers can also try their hand at wood turning and traditional pinch pot making. Children are welcome to take part in a free craft activity and make a ‘crown’ or ‘shield’ courtesy of Friends of Eaton Street Park.

There will be demonstrations of traditional greenwood crafts including how to use a shave horse and draw knife and bodging on a pole lathe where visitors can have a go at helping to turn a spindle.

Mucky Mountains Morris dancers will perform at different times during the day and spectators will have the chance to try out this traditional dance with some simple to follow steps from the troupe.

 Look out too for hilarious slapstick comedy performances from Imaginarium Youth Theatre’s masked players throughout the day.

Birds of prey demonstrations and other family favourites like the circus skills workshops, exotic animals and native species for visitors to handle and face painting will be back again this year.

There will also be heritage walks taking place around Prescot at 12 noon and 2pm (meet at Prescot Parish Church) with a halfway stop at the Bard for refreshments

New sponsors Armitage Construction, who are developing the Marketplace area in Prescot, will be hosting a traditional heritage trade skills stall featuring stonemasonry and joinery.

Thanks to Prescot Town Council, Kier Construction, Ray’s bakers, Armitage Construction and The Deanes House pub for the different elements of the fayre they have sponsored.

The Fayre will take place in and around Prescot Town Centre, Eccleston Street and Prescot Parish Church on Church Street from 11am to 4pm with free admission.

The Producers’ Market and Arts, Crafts and Gift Fair will take place on the same day.

If you’d like to get involved in the Elizabethan Fayre please call Knowsley Culture Development and Events Service on 0151 443 5353 or email carla.simkin@knowsley.gov.uk

Join us for a day of fun filled free Easter themed activities in Prescot Town Centre on Saturday 20th April 2019 between 11am and 3pm.

We’ll have:-

Easter Bonnet workshop

Easter Basket workshop – plant your own flowers

The opportunity to meet some real bunnies

Easter Egg Hunt (throughout the Town Centre) children who complete the Hunt will receive an Easter Egg

The chance to meet the “Easter Bunny”, Mother Goose and some “Fairy Folk”.

The workshop activities will be based on Eccleston Street (inside the old Grace Lea unit).

This event is being organised by Knowsley Council in conjunction with Prescot Business Club, Geraud Markets Ltd and Imaginarium.

Please come and support your local Town Centre.