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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Wesley Holmes

Liverpool's oldest LGBT+ charity gets £150k boost after losing funding to Manchester

Things are looking up for threatened LGBTQ+ charity Sahir House after its future plans were thrown into turmoil due to budget cuts.

Sahir House, Liverpool's oldest LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing charity, lost two-thirds (£200,000) of its annual funding from Liverpool City Council last month after its bid to continue providing HIV support in the area was bested by organisations from Manchester.

But it has been given a lifeline in the form of a £150,000 grant for two new projects to improve the lives of LGBTQ+ people and those living with HIV in the city.

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