In 2020, The Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) responded to a community appeal by MTC to support our local parks. Although our group was in its infancy we punched above our weight to respond, during impossible pandemic times, with countless hours day and night organising multiple projects within one, raising over £150,000 for thousands of unprecedented large and small trees to be planted in nearly every council park and for Bobby’s Wood/Woodend to be transformed (see before and after pictures) from a unattractive Maghull entrance site to an attractive green jewel. Whilst obtaining two years of catalyst grant funding for the MTC Advice Centre and Warm Space hub. We have continued gradual improvements over the years and have dedicated four years of unsung weekly maintenance volunteer time to the Woodend site, which last year resulted in the removal of over 30 agricultural bags of weeds and many other tasks. Although sadly we have little contact with the MTC, doubtlessly  due to the enormous priority of resurrecting the town hall whilst providing a seamless service, we hope our work has helped to lighten their load and provide some positivity.

Consequently, in these challenging times we would be delighted if you could spare just one hour for the beginning of our 2026 maintenance work at the Woodend Community Woodland Project on Monday (26.1.26) at 09:30 hours. The sooner we can complete this work; it will enable us to develop new possibly award-winning projects elsewhere for the benefit of Maghull, in the same vein as our ongoing 2025 BBC/RHS national award-winning Rowlands NHS Health and Wellness Project.

Venue & Tasks.

The Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) need volunteers to meet at Woodend (next to Bumbles Children’s Nursery, junction of Liverpool Road South and Northway) for one hour on Monday (26.1.26) at 09.30 hours, to:

• Replace damaged trees.
• Transfer two fruit trees to Rowlands Dell.
• Shape wisteria arch
• Weed new underplanted trees and woodland border.
• Restore wooden reindeer.
• Install stakes to support leaning tree.

Equipment needed: sturdy boots, garden gloves, spade, hand and garden fork

Thank You to Joan, Linda, Jill, Frank and Colin for completing the 2025 weeding of the largest woodland border in Maghull and applying wood preservative to the picnic thrones (September 2025).

Best Wishes,

Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD)

Together making Maghull a better place to live.

More information at www.fomd.co.uk including: (1) Events tab for everything about the meeting and (2) Projects tab for the project background.

Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk

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