A Liverpool bar is giving back to the city by providing free food for some of its most vulnerable communities.
Kitty's Showbar on Tithebarn Street, on the outskirts of Vauxhall, provides 120 free hot meals every week for homeless people across the city.
A team of dedicated staff and volunteers come together every Tuesday and Thursday, in co-operation with Mr Old Hall Street's Kitchen, to deliver meals to struggling individuals and families in Liverpool.
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The project, started this year, sees the Kitty's Showbar team serve homeless people approximately 60 meals every Tuesday and a further 60 every Thursday.
Drag queen and co-owner of Kitty's Showbar, Kitty Litter, said the project was born out of a passion for community and inclusion.
Kitty told the ECHO : "I put everything I am into this.
"I'll die giving out food."
The venue formerly known as The James Monro underwent a massive renovation in 2019 and subsequently transformed into an LGBT-friendly cabaret bar, with a fresh lick of rainbow paint on its exterior.
With Pride flags hanging from its upper floor windows, Kitty's Showbar signals to vulnerable people it is a safe space for Liverpool's LGBT+ community.
In response to the recent spike in homophobic attacks in Liverpool, the venue is in talks to set up a taxi marshal outside its premises to make sure people can get home safe.
Although it acts mainly as a hub for the LGBT+ community, the team at Kitty's insists the bar is open to everybody.
Kitty added: "We're gay owned, but we're not just a gay bar."
"We're for everybody. We're a community space."
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Kitty's Showbar continued serving pensioners with hot meals every day.
Elsewhere, the bar serves as a hub for some of Liverpool's most deprived communities, hosting a pensioners' lunch club every Wednesday with a free two-course meal and entertainment.
Additionally, co-owner Kitty is renovating the bar's upper floors into a hotel, where one room will be reserved as a safe space of refuge for people fleeing domestic violence or a family crisis.
Kitty continued: "We don't turn anyone away.
"We're here to help people in need."
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