The cash donations over the last week, from customers has amounted to Morrisons (£16), Home Bargains (£33), Esso Petrol Station (£1), totalling £50 from our five home-made collection containers. Once again many thanks for everyone’s amazing continued generous support. Sorry no updates on the information below due to a recent holiday but will chase things up this week. However, check this link out from Kew Gardens for how to identify wildflowers and other resources. https://www.growwilduk.com/wildflowers/learn-about-wildflowers/whats-wildflower?utm_campaign=322151_July%202019%20newsletter%20-%20Learn&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Grow%20Wild%20%28Board%20of%20Trustees%20of%20RBGK%29&dm_i=4VE8,6WKN,RPNKA,P9J1,1#resources We are still awaiting confirmation of sculpture funding both from Veolia and Maghull Town Council since the incredibly generous offer from Castle Foundry to undertake this work for simply materials and a week of work in kind. Once the schoolchildren have returned to school we also hope to have further information from MADCOS with regard to the level of input our local schoolchildren can undertake as part of this project and some wider initiatives that have developed. For example: tree and bulb planting both at Stafford Moreton way and at their own schools via a Mersey Forest initiative, and wildlife preservation and recycling ideas around the sculpture. Following discussions with Maghull Town Council we are currently exploring the possibility of creating a formal charity out of the Friends of Stafford Moreton Way and establishing a charity group perhaps known as Friends of Maghull, that will establish various initiatives, and/or support other groups towards their goals.

The cash donations over the last week, from customers has amounted to Morrisons (£6), Home Bargains (£16), Esso Petrol Station (£2), other £2 totalling £26 from our five home-made collection containers. Once again many thanks for everyone’s amazing continued generous support. We are still awaiting confirmation of sculpture funding both from Veolia and Maghull Town Council since the incredibly generous offer from Castle Foundry to undertake this work for simply materials and a week of work in kind. Once the schoolchildren have returned to school we also hope to have further information from MADCOS with regard to the level of input our local schoolchildren can undertake as part of this project and some wider initiatives that have developed. For example: tree and bulb planting both at Stafford Moreton way and at their own schools via a Mersey Forest initiative, and wildlife preservation and recycling ideas around the sculpture. Following discussions with Maghull Town Council we are currently exploring the possibility of creating a formal charity out of the Friends of Stafford Moreton Way and establishing a charity group perhaps known as Friends of Maghull, that will establish various initiatives, and/or support other groups towards their goals.

The cash donations over the last week, from customers has amounted to Morrisons (£8), Home Bargains (£16), Esso Petrol Station (£2) totalling £25 from our five home-made collection containers. Once again many thanks to everyone who continue to be so generous.

The cash donations over the last two weeks, from customers has amounted to Morrisons (£13+£6), Home Bargains (£39+£18), Esso Petrol Station (£2+£1) totalling £53+£25 from our five home-made collection containers. Once again many thanks to everyone who continue to be so generous. We have also contacted Veolia to identify how we can support each other but we are still waiting until a specific member of staff returns from A/L. We have also written to London and Cambridge properties who own the land to discuss any protocols following their previous permission, and they have responded with some propositions for further discussion. Following discussion with Maghull Town Council there may be a possibility of sharing a new noticeboard at the top of the access stairs to Home Bargains. This will have the advantage of sharing the cost for a larger board, pending permission from the landowners – London and Cambridge Properties. Plans are still on track for stage one of the project in the National tree week, in November 2019, for the Ashworth hospital gardeners to rotovate two areas of the site, to enable bulb and tree planting and to cover the area with wood chippings.