The Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) and I am sure the rest of the community organisations that attended, would like to extend a huge thank you for everyone that attended the festival and showed interest in our community group to volunteer, donate through our raffle to help continue to make a positive difference to our community.

On Saturday (15.6.24), it was FOMD’s first invitation to attend a festival and represented a wonderful opportunity to encourage volunteering, donations, inspire and celebrate our award-winning environmental and social work for our Maghull community.

We pushed the boat out for the long-term and purchased display boards, trestle table, printed tablecloth and used the boards and a computer monitor to demonstrate how we have been able to galvanise the community to support and engage transforming multiple neglected green spaces, planting 16,000 climate action trees and underpinning with successful grant applications – major social projects to support our most vulnerable residents through the Cosy Club warm space and digital equipment and services for the Advice Centre.

Following the disappointment of the cancelled festival last year, this year most of the festival was indoors at the town hall, with the community stalls in the large ground floor activity room, the music, entertainment and food upstairs in the Venue suite, and the funfair was based in the top car park. The rain was torrential, and some people did not get the message that the event was mainly inside but a steady flow of people did attend.

We would also like to thank all the council officers and maintenance staff who as normal went above and beyond to make it a happy event. Finally, on a personal note, I am most grateful to all the lovely FOMD volunteers who organised and sold the raffle tickets, rotated the manning of the stall or motivationally visited en masse throughout and then cheerfully and enthusiastically dissembled everything. We also made some remarkable networking connections with some really enthusiastic like-minded individuals and organisations, all of which represents the community at its best.

Huge thanks,

FOMD

Together Making Maghull a better place to live.

More information about this and other projects at: www.fomd.co.uk

Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk

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Thank you so much to Andy at ABC Design for his very friendly and creative printed tablecloth with an unbelievable 30% discount. Please see picture of contact details.