Free bus travel is being provided for children of key workers to get to school and back in Southport and across the Liverpool City Region while bus restrictions for elderly passengers have been lifted.
And a new community support fund has been launched to help community organisations during the Coronavirus crisis.
They were a number of measures revealed by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.
They are designed to ease the Coronavirus burden on local people.
The came after the Mayor chaired the first meeting of the Liverpool City Region Coronavirus Action Group.
New initiatives:
• The ‘LCR Cares’ COVID 19 Community Support Fund – a new crowdfunding campaign to support community and voluntary organisations on the frontline of helping our communities cope with the spread of Coronavirus.
• Free bus travel to and from school for the children of key workers using existing Merseytravel funded supported bus services.
• Lifting the 9.30am restriction on concessionary travel for essential journeys, such as accessing designated shopping hours reserved for the elderly.
• A fund of £65,000 of business support for community and social businesses to help them cope with the impact of COVID-19.
Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region said: “Tackling a challenge of this scale requires everybody to come together and do all that we can to stop the spread of the Coronavirus, and mitigate the economic, social and health impacts it will have.
“This obviously requires support from government – and we’ve seen the start of that this week, though we await further announcements – but there are things we can do locally as well. I want to do all that I can to help support local people, businesses and community organisations through this uncertainty.”
The LCR Cares COVID 19 Community Support Fund website page is now open for donations from the public.
Just go to https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/giving/ and search for LCRCares or www.liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk/lcrcares
Early this week, a simple and speedy processes for organisations to access those funds will be in place.
