Maghull Wins an Unbelievable £8000 National Environmental Grant from Morrisons.
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 able to nominate a good environmental cause, which following three knockout rounds were reduced to 125 winning nominees, to celebrate Morrisons 125th Anniversary.
Our community is immensely grateful to Bernice, her Morrisons team and all our incredible partners, who are helping to make Maghull a better place to live.
Background.
The Rowlands Dell project has been three years in planning in which stage I has involved the volunteers working for 46 consecutive weekly sessions to remove astounding 266 bin bags of rubbish and 25 tons of debris. Currently, the Dell is temporarily closed but due to reopen following stage 2 involving two months of incredible NHS grant funded hard landscaping to provide an accessible path, water feature, sunken garden, viewing and picnic area. This will be followed by the final stage III which will repopulate Rowlands Dell with a huge array of woodland trees and shrubs, to provide a legacy haven for humans and wildlife. Full background information and updates available at: https://www.fomd.co.uk/the-dell-project/ The water feature work is expected to be completed over the next three months.
Pictured: R to L – Dr Frank Sharp (FOMD), Cllr Ken Hughes (Mayor of Maghull and volunteer), Bernice Turner (Morrisons Community Champion) and management colleague, Neil McMahon (Senior Project Officer/Ranger, The Conservation Volunteers -TCV).
Wishing Morrisons a Very Happy 125th Anniversary and Merry Christmas to Everyone,
FOMD CIC
Together Making Maghull a better place to live.
More information at:
FOMD www.fomd.co.uk
Morrisons www.morrisonsfoundation.com
TCV www.tcv.org.uk/
Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk
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