Meeting on Wednesday 22 January 2025, from 0930 hours, at St Gregory’s Primary School, Sandy Lane, Lydiate. L31 2LB

Essentials: please bring sturdy boots, garden gloves, spade, and hammer.

Task: This important session should only take a morning to complete and will simply involve planting the remaining 150 trees (completing the 950 wildlife friendly hawthorn tree hedges) and importantly checking 800 hedge trees that were remarkably planted by the children and volunteers last Friday (see FOMD News Tab), to maximise their future growth.

More information: on this and future events like this please check our ‘Events’ page at: www.fomd.co.uk (scan QR) or contact  admin@fomd.co.uk

With your help we are hoping to finish planting the 950 trees for January with more to follow in February and March.

Please Register ASAP to Help.

The Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) is only a small group, and our success has been achieved by bringing the community together. Consequently, we need everyone to register their interest for this massive tree planting program in the New Year by sending your contact details to admin@fomd.co.uk so we can get in touch with drop in planting dates between January and March. Please help our community to continue making a difference to our environment and do our bit for climate change. No commitment but any time you can give short or long will be invaluable and a bit of healthy fun along the way.

The Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) have planted 16,000 trees in Maghull since 2021, in parks, schools, roads and are now delighted to have secured woodland and hedge trees for St Gregory’s Primary School (1,370) and Rowlands Dell (1,275).

Following the successful application the trees will be delivered at staggered intervals between January and March 2025, with considerable gratitude to the charitable suppliers – The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) The Woodland Trust, The Tree Council and supported by our brilliant long-term partners Mersey Forest.

At St Gregory’s the planting will create a wildlife friendly, pollution reducing 150m hawthorn hedge (950 trees) and woodland (420 trees) comprising of Common Oak, Green Beach, Birch, Alder, Hornbeam, Rowan, Field Maple, Hazel. It will importantly provide a great eco-educational opportunity for all the children and community volunteers, whilst providing a wonderful environmental legacy for future generations.

At Rowlands Dell the planting will create a wildlife friendly (habitat and food), pollution reducing (particulates, Co2 and noise) 141m hawthorn hedge (450 trees) and woodland (600 trees) comprising of Common Oak, Green Beach, Birch, Alder, Hornbeam, Rowan, Field Maple, Hazel. Another hedge will comprise of 225 Yew trees and will complement the 350 mixed wildlife friendly hedging planted earlier this year. They will also help to screen the neighbouring traffic to provide an even more tranquil legacy haven for the community and wildlife.

Sadly, Maghull has lost approximately 500 mature trees due to Ash dieback and Dutch Elm disease, whilst many green spaces are being lost for housebuilding, consequently your help will make a massive difference.

Pictures: schoolchildren and FOMD volunteers at St Gregory’s Primary School tree planting 17.1.25

Huge thanks,

FOMD

Together Making Maghull a better place to live.

More information. www.fomd.co.uk

Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk

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