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Launched in 2023, Maritime Heritage Maritime Futures empowers young people to connect with their heritage and explore skills and dynamic career paths in a maritime sector now driving towards a sustainable, decarbonised future.
The project centres around real-life team challenges for the students – designing a green vessel, planning a heritage event, creating an exhibition or a promotional campaign, and gives them opportunities to learn from professionals and leading companies who are dealing with the same challenges in the workplace, at a larger scale.
The Float Your Boat Challenge
- Engineering: students from sixth from colleges across the Liverpool City Region are working to design and build a small scale, sustainable cargo vessel, to be tested in June before a panel of experts from industry.
- Events: students from sixth form colleges and alternative education settings are planning and delivering events harnessing the Danny’s heritage for an audience of their choosing.
- Art and Design: students are creating images and graphics relating to the heritage of the waterways and the Danny for exhibition to the public.
- Business and Marketing: students are creating awareness raising campaigns on a number of topics relating to maritime in the region.
Get Involved: Industry
The Danny is partnering with some of the most dynamic maritime organisations to give students a unique opportunity to meet industry professionals and see their careers up close, inspiring them to envision their own futures in the field. Would your company like to be part of this community?
- Canal and River Trust
- Cammell Lairds
- Mersey Maritime
- Svitzer
- Maritime 2050
- National Museums Liverpool
- Safeguard Engineering
- Maersk
- Peel Ports
- KS Composites
Get Involved: Schools and colleges
- Sixth form and FE colleges: would you like to attend the showcase event and engage your students next year?
- Secondary Schools: The Danny is passionate about inspiring your students. Please contact us to explore how this could work for KS3 and KS4.
- Students: we're launching a youth advisory group to set the direction for our Maritime Heritage Maritime Futures project with us, starting with project participants aged 16+. If you'd like to join, please contact us.
Support Our 20/20 campaign: Empowering the Next Generation of Maritime Professionals
Thanks to initial funding from the National Lottery, our programme has laid strong foundations and is now building momentum and evidence of impact. However, with this funding set to conclude in 2025, we're seeking support from local businesses to join us as partners, championing heritage, education and community while inspiring the next generation of maritime talent.
Our Goal: £20,000 - powered by 20 sponsors pledging £1,000 each.
Your support will drive our educational outreach programme, cultivating essential skills and opening career pathways in the maritime sector, all while strengthening ties to the LIverpool City Region's rich maritime heritage. Together, let's make a lasting impact!
Stakeholder and participant feedback
The Maritime Heritage Maritime Futures project has been tremendously enriching for our students. The Danny's remarkable history and innovative approach to delivering hands-on learning opportunities and high-level mentoring has introduced our students to all sorts of behind-the-scenes experiences, people, and insights they would never have had access to otherwise. The project has really engaged them in the challenges and opportunities around decarbonisation, and fired their enthusiasm and curiosity.
Dr Charuni Dissanayaka, STEM Lead, Hugh Baird College
Worth over £5bn a year, Merseyside’s Liverpool City Region's maritime economy represents an enormous opportunity to students who are exploring their career and academic options. I have no doubt that the Maritime Heritage Maritime Futures project will have laid the groundwork for many exciting and rewarding career pathways for the students who were lucky enough to take part.
Ruth Wood, Mersey Maritime CEO
This was an amazing opportunity. I have learned so much and met so many inspirational women in maritime. I didn't know anything about the sector at all before, and now it's made me wonder if I should change my career plans and become a woman in maritime myself!
Leah Edwards, Cronton College business student, 2024
