Itinerary.

10.00 Meeting and Refreshments Available at Susie’s Café.

10.30  Dr Frank Sharp (FOMD Director) Welcome, Introduction, Background, and Thanks.

10.40 Ms Kelly Broughton (Curriculum Leader in Art and Design – Southport Art College)

10.45  Mrs Hannah Eborall (Head of Art & Design – Maghull High School)

10.50  Ms Faith Bebbington (Renowned Local and National Artist and Sculpter) Presentation and Unveiling.

11.00  Closure.

 

Attendees:

Student artists & teachers from Maghull High School and Southport College

Cllr Ken Hughes (Deputy Mayor of Maghull)

Cllr Patrick McKinley (Maghull Town Council (MTC) Leader)

Kier construction representatives

MJS Joinery – Founder and Managing Director Mike Stock

MTC Councillors

Members of the Friends of Maghull and District (FOMD).

 

Meeting Information.

Date and time:        23.2.23 at 10:00 hours

Venue:                       Outside Susie’s Café, 7, Stafford Moreton Way, Maghull, Liverpool. L31 2PH.

Parking:                    The nearest parking is at Morrisons car park, 1, Stafford Moreton way, Maghull, Liverpool L31 2PH. (Two hours free parking only).

For more information, please contact FOMD at: admin@fomd.co.uk or 07507759813

Background:

The Friends of Maghull and District (FOMD) Stafford Moreton Way Wildflower Ecology Project

We started the ongoing Stafford Morton Way project in 2019, due to concerns about the unkempt overgrown grassed areas in Maghull’s highest footfall area. We crowdfunded £6500 to create an urban wildflower meadow, to promote & inspire wellbeing, community engagement, and raise awareness of endangered wildlife, plastic recycling, and signpost people to underused natural local resources.

A fantastic addition, to the ecology project was the creation of a full-sized galvanised mesh steel rhinoceros’ sculpture, that was created at considerable discount by Castle Fine Arts Foundry, to be utilised as a receptacle for clean plastic bottle tops, to highlight endangered wildlife, the importance of plastic recycling and provide a beautiful sculpture, representing only the second piece of public art in Maghull.

Maghull High School and Southport Art College responded to FOMD to utilise some of the donated bottle tops to create further community artwork. Consequently, over the last year they have created these uplifting, poignant works of art for the whole community to enjoy and engender a continued sense of pride in our children.

Kier construction very kindly supplied the materials and constructed seven fantastic cabinets, whilst their local subcontractors MJB Joinery kindly installed them over one day. Whilst the neighbouring NHS Medical Centre and the local shops have given permission for the installation.

Further background information and photographs are available in this link:

https://www.fomd.co.uk/smw-project-update-maghulls-rainbow-the-rhinoceros-gets-to-work/

www.fomd.co.uk