Chris Lane (main pictured) holds the RHS National Collection of Wisteria and featured on the BBC Gardeners World programme, kindly gave his expert advice regarding our final aspiration at the Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) Woodend Community Woodland Project (junction of Liverpool Road South and Northway), to create a boulevard of wisteria trees. Wisteria
On Friday (11.10.24) the Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) were privileged to give Christine Leung a tour around some of our projects to obtain some valuable advice regarding our wildflower zones within our projects, as they have been dipping below our expectations over the last year or two. Consequently, we hope with the right
ACM window cleaners were commended for vigilantly and heroically responding (2.10.24) to the faint cries of help, from my elderly Maghull neighbour who had collapsed and was immobilised on the inside stairs of her home. Without their chance intervention her family and I believe that she may not have survived. They were too modest to
The super friendly community orientated BBC Radio Merseyside organised an interview with the Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) as a follow-up from 6.9.22 when we along with three other nominees were shortlisted for the BBC ‘Make a Difference’ Awards, that to our astonishment we won a few weeks later! The warm interview was simply
The Rowlands Dell Project (adjacent Hare & Hounds Pub) has following a stage I year-long volunteer cleanup has now entered the stage two hard and soft landscaping work which commenced on the 17.9.24 and will last two months (weather dependent). It will provide the following: block paved and benched viewing area, three picnic tables, accessible
Drapers Canal Bridge (11b) which connects Bridge Road and Rutherford Road over the Leeds Liverpool canal had become a dangerous slip and trip hazard particularly for the older community who use this high footfall connection to the shops and train station. Trees and shrubs were growing through the bridge depositing rotten leaves which had weeds
Bernice Turner (Morrisons Maghull Community Champion) earlier this year kindly nominated the Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) and our partners The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) to develop a health and wellness water feature within our NHS Rowlands Dell green restoration project situated next to the Maghull Medical Centre. Each of the 497 national stores were
Maghull’s Morrisons Community Champion – Bernice Turner (pictured), is calling for donations through a local raffle situated at the entrance to our store. Nationally, Morrisons has partnered with the ‘Together for Short Lives Charity’ with the aim of raising £10 million by October 2024. ‘Together, the partnership is raising vital funds for children’s hospices across
A beautiful natural entrance archway feature created (2.10.24), with a giant willow tree comb over fixed in position with cable ties! Which is situated at our Woodend Community Woodland Project next to Bumbles Nursery Many Thanks to Joan (G), Joan (S) and Jill (pictured) for varnishing the coronation thrones and Colin and Frank (not pictured) for
