Liverpool’s annual Pride event and the city’s March with Pride have been canceled amid "significant financial and organizational challenges". Liverpool Pride CANCELED has left many disappointed.

Liverpool’s annual Pride event and the city’s March with Pride have been cancelled amid “significant financial and organisational challenges”.

LCR Pride Foundation, which organises the event, which was due to take place on 26 July, said “with great sadness” it would “regretfully” not go ahead.

The charity said rising costs and difficulty securing funding had made it “impossible to bring Pride in Liverpool this year”.

About 60,000 people turned out for last year’s event, the largest number ever to attend.