Community Group Membership

Community Groups ( local societies, charities and specialist interest associations from across the City Region – Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral) are most welcome to join Merseyside Civic Society. If you share our vision for a City Region which appreciates the best of its local cultural identity, heritage buildings and areas, and its green and open spaces, but which does not live in the past and looks forward to helping make a better future, please join us!

Your Group will not only join MCS, but also a wider network of interests together with our existing Community members. These include local and wider-area based conservation area societies and residents’ associations, friends of local parks, heritage interpretation volunteers and blue and green badge tourist guides.

See our Community Group Members

A full list of MCS Community Group Members (and, where available, links to their websites or social channels) can be found here.

We are also member of Civic Voice, the national organisation for Civic Societies and CPRE, The Council for the Protection of Rural England.

Why should your Community Group join MCS

By joining MCS your group will contribute to the sustainable and just development of Liverpool City Region for future generations

Your membership enables you to:

  • Keep up to date with what’s happening to our city region through our bi-monthly enewsletter
  • Show you care about the place you live
  • Network with like-minded individuals and groups
  • Get advance notice about our member events
  • Promote your group through our website
  • Feature your group in our enewsletter on a one-time basis
  • Have your say at our AGM and pick up our annual report
  • Support our campaigns such as ‘Save the Piazza Fountain’, ‘Rocket: All Aboard’ and ‘Stop The Rot’
  • Join one of our working groups such as Heritage Plaques or MCS Awards
  • Request a MCS speaker from a range of topics at a reduced rate
  • Inform us about your group’s activities by sending details to our Community Group Co-ordinator, Steven Garnett at community@merseysidecivicsociety.org

How your membership works

  • Complete the simple join us form below
  • MCS will send enews, announcements of events, campaigns and calls for comments on policies by email to the person named as your Group’s contact
  • You may then circulate these communications to your committee and members as you feel appropriate
  • IMPORTANT: if your key contact with us changes please let us know by emailing membership@merseysidecivicsociety.org

Donate

We depend on the generosity of annual donations from members to keep the Society running. By way of expressing your support, please donate whatever your Group feels is appropriate. As a guide, we suggest  Community Groups make an annual donation of £20. We appreciate that many community groups do not charge a membership fee and therefore lack the means to donate. You are still welcome to join Merseyside Civic Society and will receive the benefits outlined above. Please understand however that, at times, our donating members receive information about our most popular events first.

Several alternative payment methods are available:
1. by BACS/Direct Credit to: NAME: Merseyside Civic Society BANK: Barclays Bank, 48B-50 Lord Street, Liverpool L1 1TD SORT CODE: 20-51-43 ACCOUNT NO: 30599255

(as we don’t incur fees this really helps keep our administration costs to a minimum)

2. by cheque payable to ‘Merseyside Civic Society’ and sent to: MCS Treasurer, 14A, Princes Park Mansions, Croxteth Road, Liverpool L8 3SA

or

3. PayPal via the donate page.
4. Should you require an invoice or would like to pay by Standing Order please contact the MCS Hon. Treasurer with your request – treasurer@merseysidecivicsociety.org. Whichever remittance method you choose, please let us know if there are any changes to your contact details by email to: membership@merseysidecivicsociety.org