Plant Baby Plant!! On Tuesday 4.3.25 we finished the spectacular planting at St Gregory’s primary school in Lydiate which is our second planting site this tree planting season, planting 1064 mixed wildlife friendly hedge tree whips alongside three perimeters and 402 mixed woodland trees in 3 copse areas, totalling 1466 trees, undertaken on the 17, 22, 26.2.25 and 4.3.25. Alongside our planting at Rowlands Dell where we have planted 1123 trees, this planting season (October – March) we have planted 2589 trees, on top of 16,000 planted over the last three years in Maghull.

We are immensely grateful to:

  • Every single enthusiastic child who twice had the opportunity to receive presentations from Mersey Forest about tree planting risk, rationale and method.
  • Kind support from Head Teacher Joe Perree, Helen King (Admin) and Dave Jones (Site Manager).
  • The amazing Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) Volunteers for all their cheerful hard work planting and organising.
  • Our long-term friend – Ben Greenaway (Mersey Forest) and Rowden (Ben’s friendly expert forestry school subcontractor) for the expert planning, teaching and immense and invaluable support throughout.
  • The Conservation Volunteers and the Woodland Trust and their sponsors for the kind donation of the free trees.

Benefits:

  • Providing wildlife habitat, food and sequestering carbon for climate action.
  • Providing eco-educational experience and teamwork skills for every single child in the school.
  • Providing a sense of health and wellness not only for the school but for the wider community that the hedge and woodland borders.

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Background Context

St Gregory’s Primary School has a ginormous playing field with a huge featureless perimeter, bereft of wildlife support and interest, that borders the local community. The wildlife friendly hedging to provide habitat and food for wildlife and can function to reduce pollution by 60% and provide considerable carbon capture (sequestration) as part of climate action, whilst improving human health and biodiversity. The creation of three woodland areas comprise of 402 mixed native trees, which include Common Oak, Green Beech, Birch, Alder, Hornbeam, Rowan, Field Maple and Hazel.

Huge thanks to one and all,

FOMD

Together making Maghull a better place to live.

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

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