Please help move our second woodchip donation on Friday (29.5.26, 14.30hrs) at Beechway (L31 1HP) in preparation for the big community SOS day (10.6.26). With all the details on our events calendar tab https://www.fomd.co.uk/

Venue and Time.

Meeting on Friday 29.5.26, 14.30hrs, for one hour at Beechway L31 1HP (turn onto Beechway from Park Lane, and take the first road on the right (with two large copper beech trees either side) and follow until you find green open space on right hand side).

Equipment Needed.

Please wear sturdy boots and garden gloves.

Task.

Simply removing some border vegetation and moving the large woodchip mound a few feet into the border to protect the grass.

Thank You to:

• Saxon Tree Specialists (Sarah, Luke, Tom) for kindly and generously supplying two loads of woodchip and perfectly shaped border logs.
• Tommy from the local family Redwood Tree Surgeons business, who kindly called in at the last session (21.5.26) to see the project and amazingly promised future woodchip and logs, something he has been undertaking in the community generally for over 15 years. Tommy kindly stayed on for one hour whilst on his day off to help wheelbarrow Saxons donated woodchip. It was a real pleasure to meet Tommy (pictured) for the first time.
• Other volunteers who kindly moved the mountain of woodchip into the far border comprised of local residents (Christy, Norman), RHA officer (Pal) and FOMD volunteers (Colin and Frank).

More Saxon Tree Specialist information can be found at:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555652425418

https://www.saxontrees.co.uk/

Saxon Community Kindness Tribute: https://www.fomd.co.uk/unsung-maghull-community-kindness-by-saxon-tree-specialists/

Needed:  more free logs and woodchip donations for this brand-new exciting grassroots community project. We need tons of woodchip for a new border and about 50 m of logs to line the border, over time, if possible, for stage I of this transformation starting in June 2026.

The Beechway Estate is situated next to the entrance of Ashworth Hospital and adjacent to the Maghull Motorway Services. Previously it was an estate for Ashworth Hospital staff and was transferred to Riverside Housing Association (RHA) as mainly social housing, resulting in a mixture of private and rented housing ownership with mainly unadopted green spaces, with little green investment and some neglect. The residents have reached out to RHA, Lotus Brook (green community enabler), FOMD and Sefton Council to start their own green transformation journey for the benefit of the whole community. The wider Beechway Estate will be leafleted with further information after the Thursday event (21.5.26) by the RHA officer.

Stage I of the project will commence with a one-day community event (10.6.26) comprising of:

• defining the border, remove fly tipping, shaping overgrown shrubs, recycling vegetation into a wildlife dead hedge and wildlife twig piles.
• Recycling large wooden post into an iconic multi-bird box post with children painting donated bird boxes, creosoting post, cementing base and hanging bird boxes.
• Planting six crabapple trees with stakes strapping and guards.

Proposed Stage II and III later in the year focusing on mixed wildlife friendly perimeter hedging, woodland, bins, and nature path.

Please help with this really worthwhile engaging collaborative community transformation.

Huge thanks,

Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) on behalf of Beechway community stakeholders.

Together making Maghull a better place to live.

• Winner of the UK 2025 BBC One Show/RHS Growing Together Community Garden Award.
• Winner of the 2022 BBC Make a Difference Environmental Award.

More information at https://www.fomd.co.uk/