Empowering young people to flourish at Toxteth’s Tiber Community Hub

Tiber, based in Toxteth, is a charity with a unique vision. Everything they do is led, developed and owned by young people. Their work focuses on empowering young people and doing everything they can to raise aspirations, encourage and support them to achieve their goals and get the best out of life.

Tiber is one of over 270 youth services that was awarded a Youth Investment Fund grant. A grant of £3.5M has transformed a former brown site, where there was previously a primary school, into a vibrant community hub. The new space has been designed by the Tiber Young People’s Steering Group over many years of work and planning with progressive groups.

Tiber Centre is a brand new two-storey, fully accessible space. It includes educational rooms, a café, a function suite, changing areas with showers and toilets, a kitchen and an outdoor event space. There’s also a viewing terrace looking out over the outside 3G pitch and performance space.

Harnessing young people’s creative expression in partnership with Tate Liverpool

A colourful mural takes pride of place in Tiber’s new youth hub. It’s been co-produced by young people in partnership with the artist Neil Keating. It will be a permanent feature, welcoming visitors to the new Tiber centre.

Stephen Nze, Facilitator and Coordinator of both the Tiber Young Peoples Steering Group, and Young Event Producers, says “Everything that happens at Tiber is owned by young people. Young people now manage Tiber’s communications and social channels”.

Stephen Nze, along with colleagues and creative practitioners, empower young people at Tiber to aim high and live out their dreams. So much so, that the Young Event Producers have exhibited their work at Tate Liverpool and last year exhibited at Liverpool’s Metquarter with their LCR award winning exhibition the treads that bind us.

Earlier this year, Tate Liverpool worked with the group, aged 14-18, on an audio-visual installation and exhibition for the new Tiber Centre. The exhibition, which ran from 25th September until 1st October; Through Our Lens, combined photography, photomontage and film.  Tate Liverpool worked with the Tiber Young Event Producers to explore the history, culture and wisdom of different generations in the L8 neighbourhood and through oral history, archive research and photography created their own artworks.  (L8 refers to a postcode district in Liverpool that covers the areas of Toxteth, Dingle, and the city centre.)

Supported by artist Mark Murphy, the Tiber Young Event Producers have created photomontage works drawn from their own photography, inspired by the archives of photographer Leroy Cooper and Liverpool Black Archive Hub founder Michelle Peterkin Walker, to reflect the past, present and future of L8.

Young producer, Daisymay Austin added:

“Working with Tiber has shown me creativity can unite a diverse community, turning individual stories into a shared story.” 

The Tiber Young Producers developed their ideas for this project over the summer of 2025, working with a number of people from the L8 community, including Jerome Griffin, the ‘Scouse Ghetto Gourmet’, to explore its food, history, and cultures. Their work questions the narratives and ownership of histories, foregrounding the importance of visibility, local archives and who tells the stories of communities.

Stef Bradley, Curator of Learning, Tate Liverpool, said:

“We are proud to see what Tiber Young Producers have achieved with Through Our Lens. It has been truly inspiring to see this group rise to the challenge of an even more ambitious project in their third year working with Tate, taking their producer skills to ambitious new heights for this beautiful show close to home at Tiber.”

 “The Young people’s decision to connect with inspiring elders within their community to share stories over a meal brought so much inspiration for the group, opening up some rich discussion exploring their place in their community as a new generation of creatives carving their own paths.”