Venue & Tasks.

The Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) need volunteers to meet at Woodend (at the junction of Liverpool Road South and Northway) for one hour on Thursday (24.4.25) at 09:30 hours, to:

• Begin the annual weeding of the large woodland border (50x4m).
• Prune wisteria
• Re-Establish willow arch.
• Resurrect wooden reindeer family.

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

Lots more volunteer opportunities will be coming up soon, so please keep an eye on our events calendar.

Huge thanks to one and all,

FOMD

Together making Maghull a better place to live.

Thank You:

Following the tragic severe reduction of the oldest tree (100+) the area looks quite barren, consequently I planted the two donated willow trees and the plumb cherry tree (with thanks to James, Linda and Jon) in close vicinity to the 15 foot stump which is encouragingly showing some signs of a resurrection.

Background to the Woodend Community Woodland Project

In 2019, the Woodend/Bobby’s Wood (junction of Liverpool Road, South and Northway) was an uninspiring space/drab entrance to Maghull and unusable by most people and wildlife, and a potential magnet for even more housebuilding in Maghull.

In 2020, at the height of the pandemic restrictions the Friends of Maghull and District (FOMD) unbelievably raised more than £30,000 (doubled over the years), to make the area a safe, accessible, interesting and naturally beautiful area that has become a regular destination.

Woodend was transformed by creating an ‘accessible’ 230m Cotswolds style path. A ‘safe’ 230m perimeter fence and wildlife friendly hedging. Created a new 50x4m border planted with over 500 plant donations. Planted and installed: 2,500 trees, 5,000 bulbs, benches, bins, noticeboard, rockery, children’s eco-education corner, coronation picnic area, and a community kindness art installation. Amazingly, our inspiring unsung volunteers have been removing 25/30 agricultural bags of weeds from the border every year, that we are hoping will gradually reduce as the ground covering shrubs develop.

Check out the evolution in this link: https://www.fomd.co.uk/woodend-community-woodland-project/

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

More information. www.fomd.co.uk

Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk

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