Mersey Basin Campaign celebrates 25th year

Sep 2 2009 by Jade Wright, Birkenhead News

THE Mersey Basin Campaign is organising a major environment conference in Liverpool this month to celebrate its 25th and final year.

This free half-day event features a line up of top speakers including the secretary of state for the environment Hilary Benn (via a live video link from London), the government's former chief scientific advisor Professor Sir David King, former environment minister Michael Heseltine and Bishop James Jones of Liverpool.

BBC political journalist Jim Hancock will MC the event.

There is also an optional trip on a Mersey ferry along the river to view the redevelopment of both iconic waterfronts.

As the campaign reaches the end of its planned lifespan, the conference will celebrate a quarter of a century of successful environmental action and mark a decade since the campaign was honoured globally as inaugural winner of the World River prize.

The conference will pass on the lessons of 25 years of partnership working.

It will also hear from top level speakers and look to the future that is rapidly unfolding – a Northwest Region that will be radically different over the next 25 years.

The event takes place on September 22, at the ECHO Arena and Conference Centre, Liverpool from 8.45am-1pm.

To book your place e-mail f.bhatti@merseybasin.org.uk, telephone Fouzia Bhatti on 0161 242 8200 or book online at www.merseybasin.org.uk by Friday, September 4 at the latest.