Temperatures are expected to be high throughout the day
Fans enjoying the weather at a Waterfront festival(Image: Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo)
Thousands of people are expected to take over the city today in a sea of rainbow to enjoy Liverpool Pride 2025. On Saturday, July 26, Sahir’s staging of the annual event will come to life, giving the event a different format and new look in comparison to recent years.
The event and march were initially cancelled for the year, with the organisers citing “significant financial and organisational challenges” and insisting they “listened to the community” by cutting ties with sponsor Barclays. This decision created further issues with staging the annual event.
LCR Pride Foundation, the organisation behind Pride in Liverpool and the city’s annual March with Pride, then “regretfully” announced in a lengthy statement shared with ECHO that the event would not go ahead.
However, Sahir, the city’s oldest LGBTQ+ charity, has now managed “to turn things around” after stepping in to facilitate the event at seven weeks’ notice. The ECHO will bring you live updates throughout the day on the celebrations.
Pride in Liverpool at the Pier Head.(Image: Andrew Teebay)
Those attending will be glad to hear there will be periods of sunny intervals, but unfortunately, this will be broken up by a partly cloudy evening and nighttime.
When the main events are taking place, between 11am and 5pm on the waterfront, it is expected to reach 19°C. However, this is changeable, with the Met Office adding: “Sunshine and scattered showers through the weekend, perhaps heavy.”
Sahir has stepped in to help facilitate and coordinate the community-led Pride. However, with only a few weeks’ notice, the charity has created a GoFundMe to help with the costs.The target is £60,000 to deliver the celebrations, with any surplus of the funds raised being used to protect the life-changing work Sahir does all year round. You can donate here.
Team members Kellie, Shereen, Kat and Ant, from Sahir, the city’s oldest LGBTQ+ charity(Image: Colin Lane)
Several road closures will be put in place today to help facilitate the city’s annual Pride celebrations. For the annual March with Pride parade and Pride in Liverpool events to take place safely, temporary closures will mean no vehicle movement will be possible—except for emergency services.
The Liverpool City Council has closed some roads for certain periods of time to help ensure the march runs smoothly. A spokesperson said: “There are no significant road closures for this event that should affect the wider public as the march takes place predominantly on the pavement.
“We have temporary closures on the waterfront at Brunswick St (waterside) and St Nicholas Place to support the muster, rally, and march start area.
“Two lanes of the north-bound carriage on the Strand (Gower St to Mann Island) will be closed for a period of time as an additional safety measure as the march passes this section of the route.
“There will be a temporary closure (no left turn) at the entrance to Royal Albert Dock. All temporary road closures should be lifted by 1 pm.”