The city council is working with communities, faith groups and charities to celebrate the St George flag. Councillors were told event was viewed as a way of “reframing all the challenges” about the flag over the past year. “Generally different faith leaders, people from different community groups and it was recalled that (in a previous year) Southampton hit the national news and it was very much about celebrating St George’s Day from the perspective of the wide and diverse community in Southampton. “There is a real appetite for St George’s Day this year to be a multi-cultural event and celebration in the city and let’s see if we can get some national communication and headlines again.”The plans for St George’s Day on Thursday, April 23, were referenced at the overview and scrutiny management committee on Thursday, January 22. “On St George’s Day, we should be out there with our faith groups, with the leaders and get a comms piece out there that this flag belongs to all of us.”