Downtown in Business has announced Poke Marketing as the headline sponsor of the 2026 Livercool Awards gala dinner.
The event will celebrate the businesses, entrepreneurs and creative leaders who are helping to shape Liverpool’s future and strengthening its reputation as one of the UK’s most dynamic, distinctive and culturally influential cities.
The Livercool Awards will recognise achievement across the city’s business, property, hospitality, cultural and creative sectors, bringing together leading figures from Liverpool’s public and private sectors for an evening of celebration.
Renowned as one of Liverpool’s leading creative agencies, Poke Marketing has delivered outstanding work for businesses and organisations across a variety of sectors. The agency is currently working with Downtown in Business to create a new website and digital platform, while also helping to shape and strengthen the DIB brand.
Downtown in Business Group chair and chief executive Frank McKenna said:
“We are delighted to welcome Poke Marketing as the headline sponsor of the 2026 Livercool Awards.
“Poke is a brilliant Liverpool business: creative, ambitious and fiercely proud of the city. The company embodies exactly the kind of entrepreneurial spirit that Livercool has been established to celebrate.
“These awards will recognise the people who are generating growth, creating opportunities and promoting Liverpool positively on the national and international stage. With Poke’s backing, we can make the gala dinner a fitting celebration of everything that is great about the city.”
Andrew Binns of Poke Marketing said:
“Liverpool has always had an extraordinary ability to innovate, reinvent itself and make an impact far beyond its boundaries.
“Poke is proud to be a Liverpool business and equally proud to become the headline sponsor of the 2026 Livercool Awards. We look forward to working with Downtown in Business to celebrate the people, ideas and organisations that continue to move the city forward.”
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