The Friends of Maghull & District CIC (FOMD) amazingly won the Maghull Town Council Civic Award for the environment, hot on the heels of the BBC ‘Make A Difference’ Environmental Winner Award, Sefton Council ‘Citizen for Good’, and the royal tree presentation. The Wednesday evening event (22.2.23) was organised perfectly with food, entertainment, and the shared company of so many fantastic community spirited individuals and groups.
We would like to thank our nominee Cllr John Sayer, the council for voting for us, Cllr Chris Carlson for hosting our table and undertaking the presentation, the council officers for organising the occasion so brilliantly, but most of all because we are such a small fledgling group we rely on galvanising our generous community, so we would like to convey our huge gratitude to everyone for supporting our group to make our community a better place to live.
The nomination application below provides a small but generous introduction to FOMD’s background:
I would like to nominate this extraordinary unsung small group of volunteers who have punched above their weight since their inception in 2019, to deliver countless environmental improvements, for the health, wellness, awareness, legacy of our grateful community. They have motivated and engaged every aspect of the community making the impossible possible:
Parkbourn project: galvanised the local community to transform an area with 20yrs of ASB & fly tipping into a tranquil garden oasis destination.
Stafford Moreton Way: transformed a large unkempt area with the towns highest footfall, by crowdfunding £6500 to create an inspirational eco-educational area, utilising bulbs, wildflowers, wildlife friendly trees, hedging, noticeboard, and crowned with a life-sized galvanised mesh steel rhinoceros which is a receptacle for 100,000 plastic bottle tops which are upcycled into community art by local schools (highlighting endangered wildlife and plastic recycling).
Woodend Project: during the height of the pandemic restrictions, they unbelievably raised over £30,000 to transform a neglected underused green space. They created an ‘accessible’ 230m Cotswolds style path. A‘safe’ 230m perimeter fence and wildlife friendly hedging. Created a new 50x4m border planted with countless plant donations. Planted trees, bulbs, benches, bins, noticeboard, rockery, children’s eco-education corner & more.
Over the last 18 months they have organised and planted an astounding 15,000 trees. They have instigated research with a Prof of Ecology and other agencies to undertake research and develop strategies to reduce air pollution and flooding.
Huge thanks to one and all,
Your – Friends of Maghull & District.
More information available at: www.fomd.co.uk