Logs & Wood Chip Needed to Em’bark’ on a Thrilling New Maghull Beechway Garden Project.

Please help the community with any free log 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 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.

Stage I of the project will commence with a one day community event 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.