A group of men "would be dead" without a community workshop.
In 2015, Eddy Flynn, now 55, had been working as a carer and landscape gardener when he realised he "just needed something for himself." Soon after he had opened the Bootle Tool Shed, a community workshop and community interest charity in the Bootle Strand, offering a place for people to go to escape isolation, get support and, more importantly, enjoy some good company.
Speaking to the ECHO at the workshop, ahead of a visit from LFC legend Jamie Carragher, Eddy said he never expected the workshop to become so meaningful and so important to so many different people. He said he'd been told by members they "would be dead" without the workshop and that he'd now welcomed around 200 registered members.
