As part of our ‘One Hour for Maghull Initiative’ we would be delighted to welcome you and no commitment necessary, just turn up whenever it suits you on any of the occasions we will list on our calendar. Just fresh air and exercise and good feeling that you have made a difference for the community.

On this occasion, we have another one hour session on Sunday (5.3.23) at 13.30hrs at Hall Lane Park (at the Old Hall Lane West entrance, near the Baptist Church L31 3DY). We will be weeding by removing grass from inside the tree guards in some our young previously community planted trees in 2021/22. Removing the weeds makes a massive difference to the tree growth as evidenced from the Mersey Forest picture.

Please bring garden gloves.

More information at: www.fomd.co.uk Check the Events Calendar.

Huge thanks for our last Give One Hour events and other activities:

(16.2.23) SMW Project: FOMD gratefully supported Kier construction subcontractor’s MJS Joinery for two hours installing 7 beautifully crafted art cabinets for the bottle top mosaics, made by Maghull High School and Southport art college.

(17.2.23) SMW Project: FOMD spend 2 hours repairing the bottle top mosaics that had been damaged in the installation.

(18.2.23) Pimbley Tree Project Annual Winter Work: we undertook the spreading of 2 t of donated wood chippings at Pimbley Field (Bridge Road) to spread around the young trees to provide an attractive mulch to suppress weeds and hydrate the trees. We would like to thank Harry, Chris, Paul Richards (local tree surgeons) for the donated wood chippings, and Ken for his short notice support in helping to repair the trees and spread the wood chippings.

(19.2.23) Hall Lane Tree Project: thank you to the ATC cadets, Diane, John and Sally for weeding and repairing a huge amount of young trees that we planted two years ago.

(22.2.23) Civic Awards: huge congratulations to everyone involved in enabling FOMD to receive the environmental award from Maghull town council at the civic award ceremony evening.

(23.2.23am) SMW Project: FOMD gratefully supported John from MJS joinery at 0800 hours, partially unveiling the artwork prior to the official unveiling. Thanks also to Matthew for cutting the hedge the day before, and Ken for litter picking the area at 0800 hours. Thank you to everyone who made the unveiling at 1030 hours such a wonderfully memorable experience for the artistic children.

(23.2.23 pm) SMW Project: thank you to Ken for helping to transport our next art project involving a superlambanana by transferring it from an auto body spray garage to the school where the artwork will be created.

(26.2.23) Newspaper Articles: Thank you to Storm Newton and James McNeil for the two Liverpool Echo FOMD articles.

(27.2.23 am) Pimbley Tree Project Annual Winter Work: the final trees were weeded, repaired and we also were able to replant approximately 50 spare heeled trees that had been destroyed by council strimming. Huge thanks to John and Joan.

(27.2.23 pm) Park Lane litter picking: thank you to FOMD for litter picking Park Lane up to the service station yesterday – another three bin bags.

(2.3.23) SMW Project: FOMD transported four bin bags of plastic bottle tops equating to 50,000, to Neston High school were they continue to make astounding recycled items from the community rhinoceros donations.