Schools, Parks, Roads in Maghull have all benefited from receiving a large investment of trees to improve our environment and make it a better place to live.

Schools

This week a three-year plan to plant 8 large standard trees at St Georges Primary School and 11 at Hudson Primary School, which we thought may have been lost, was helped over the line by Graeme Riley (FOMD), bringing together head teachers Peter Chapman, Niki Craddock, Mersey Forest’s Ben Greenaway and Foggy (JA Jones, for his tireless work planting these trees). This mature planting crowns a fantastic investment by Mersey Forest who have previously helped the Friends of Maghull & District to plant over 2500 trees in each school, to develop copses and hedgerows, representing £15,000 of funding. Building on the largest ever previous £40,000 tree investment in 2022 celebrated in this link https://www.fomd.co.uk/newspaper-parks-and-schools-in-maghull-to-benefit-from-112-new-trees/

This investment represents a fantastic, long overdue improvement in the local environment, wildlife and the health and well-being of the schools and their local community’s. A huge thank you to everyone involved who made this aspiration of planting 5000 trees towards our current ground total of 16,000, a reality.

Parks.

Over the last few weeks, FOMD has been revisiting and undertaking maintenance work on the 3000 trees planted at Pimbley Playing Field and 1015 at Old Hall Park replacing 60 and 215 lost trees respectively, courtesy of Mersey Forest. We still have 100 to replace and would really welcome your support by checking into our event page of our website over the next week.

We are immensely indebted to Mersey Forest yet again for their generosity and would like to thank our recent volunteers who have been helping at short notice including: Ken, Joan, Paul (yesterday 7.3.24) and Mark and Colin (today 8.3.24). Thank you for your really cheerful hard work between 0900 hours and 12:00 hours each day.

Sadly, a similar number of standard trees were planned for Pimbley Playing Field and Old Hall Park but MTC strangely decided against receiving this unique hard work for opportunity for grant funding.

Street Trees.

We recently organised three large standard replacement trees for the trees that were lost on Claremont Avenue, where we had organised 18 trees to be planted previously, and on Deyes Lane were eight were planted opposite the shops. Thank you to Cllr Mike Desmond for his support in liaising with Sefton’s Tree Department. We are also hopeful that the new trees that were damaged on Gainsborough Avenue will also be replaced soon. Originally they had been replacements sadly for some huge mature trees that had been felled due to disease.

We are hoping to have some further good news about securing five trees for the central square soon.

We desperately need your help planting 100 trees that have been donated and need to go in the ground ASAP over the next week. If you can spare any time at all, please check our events webpage or for any other information about our tree projects and others please go to www.fomd.co.uk

A final thank you to Ben Greenaway (Mersey Forest) who without his tireless support, knowledge and experience – none of the nearly 16,000 trees we have planted would have been possible.

Best Wishes,

FOMD

Together Making Maghull a better place to live.

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

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