A free all-day street party and fundraising gig headlined by Pete Wylie will celebrate the Florrie's 130th year later this month.
The daytime event, running from 12-5pm on Saturday August, 24, promises a range of activities for the whole family including table tennis, bouncy castles, pony rides and face painting, as well as interactive workshops with the quirky Liverpool Arts Lab, the Florrie Guitar Group and even a few circus performers.
There will also be historic talks, live music including African drumming, street food and birthday cake at the iconic community centre on Mill Street in Dingle.
Laurence Fenlon, events and business manager of the Florrie, said: "We've got loads of things going on. People can come along and try some of what we do here.
"We'd say just come on down and try some things out and get involved."
The birthday celebrations brings together all the activities going on daily at the Florrie, which has also been running a free kids' summer scheme during the holidays, provide lunches and dinners for the kids as well as a range of fun activities.
Laurence said: "The Florrie has got all kinds going on all through the week and it's free. We also hire out the spaces here for conferences, which helps keep us going."
The evening fundraiser costs £15 a ticket and will feature acts including Pete Wylie, who is headlining, as well as The Shipbuilders, Lemonade Fix and Clean Cut Kid.
The Florrie's Guitar Group will perform twice during the day.
Laurence said: "It will be quite something, when you've got 30 guitars together playing a song."
The Florrie has a long history in the Dingle, first opened in 1889 as a "place of recreation and instruction for the poor and working boys of this district of the city" by Bernard Hall, who was a Liverpool magistrate and mayor.
The centre, named after Hall's daughter Florence, who died aged 22, was open for the next 100 years before falling into disuse and disrepair in the late 1980s.
After a successful campaign to restore the centre and bring it back into use, which the ECHO had championed as part of its STOP THE ROT campaign, the Florrie was re-opened in 2012.
It followed a nearly £7 million refurbishment and the building is now once again hometo a thriving community centre in the heart of the Dingle.
