About MPAC

Support. Engage. Connect.

We support organisations helping them to be better governed, managed and resourced. We offer capacity building support including undertaking DBS checks, support through our facilitated Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme and capacity building support. Our Holiday, Activities and Food Programme (HAF) supports young people who are in receipt of free school meals to access playscheme activities and be fed healthy, nutritious meals during holiday periods.

We engage young people in fun, positive and developmental activities, with everything from creative art spaces, music tech and performance spaces to counselling rooms supporting around 100 young people per week. We meet a range of wellbeing needs and physical activities offered to young people such as martial arts training to youth work including those from LGBT communities and young people who face homelessness.

We connect through to a wide network of play providers who are supported through our Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme. This network of provider organisations enables wider collaboration, co-delivery, information, and resource sharing to build a stronger youth sector.

Services for youth and play providers

• Acting as a conduit for grant aid to eligible third sector organisations in Liverpool, most notably via our Holiday Activity and Food (HAF) contract with Liverpool City Council and the Department for Education delivering school holiday play and food provision.
• Delivery and facilitation of free and low-cost training workshops for community organisation workers and volunteers (e.g. First Aid, Safeguarding).
• Training for providers in delivery of arts and crafts workshops.
• Capacity building support for provider organisations i.e. policies and procedures, training and advocacy, support with income generation strategies, planning and management.
• We are a registered body for DBS applications
• Low cost training/meeting room hire within our fully accessible building.
• Low cost rental office space for voluntary groups and start-up organisations.
• Signposting and links to food partnerships, child or youth-centred provision and additional services which may benefit organisations.
• Play, arts and community equipment for loan.

The MPAC Hub

MPAC is home to a number of organisations providing a range of services, activities and support from our fully-accessible, city-centre venue.

• Youth counselling sessions- delivered via our state-of-the-art counselling rooms delivered by fully qualified counselling specialists from the Young Persons Advisory Service (YPAS).
• Physical health and wellbeing engagement- including martial arts training (Hung Gar Kung Fu), gym facilities, fitness sessions, etc.
• Creative art sessions- utilising dedicated spaces within our building for young people to access a range of hands on creative art activities.
• Arts-in-play residencies on play schemes, city-wide and year-round.
• Music tuition and technology activities- with dedicated spaces for tuition, music recording and production and separate performance spaces.
• Detached youth work- via local detached youth workers engaging young people from excluded, vulnerable and/or ‘at-risk’ groups. This involves trust building exercises in key areas of the city (as identified by local Police) aimed at developing positive relationships, resolving key issues and encouraging positive choices. This includes participation in MPAC’s centre-based activities.