Author: Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens

Thank you to all who have volunteered in the Waterloo Seafront Gardens during April.

We’ve had another busy month, with 13 joining us for Litter Picking in the Children’s Play Park and surrounding area, 7 at both of our weekday garden maintenance sessions, and 11 at our Sunday session.

We have continued to edge around the pathway and benches in Adelaide Garden, and to clear the steps in Crescent Garden.  We also weeded and mulched with bark the centre of the raised bed in Crescent – before the very prickly Rosa Rugosa grow back after pruning!  We’ll continue to work on the rest of the bed this month.

We had a successful book sale yesterday (3^rd May), when we raised £250 and plan to have another one (weather permitting) on Saturday 7th June.  We’re trying to reduce the number of books we have in our storage room, but would be grateful for any donations of children’s books.

Our volunteer sessions in May will take place on the following days:

Saturday 10th May – Litter Picking at 10.30am in Marine Garden
Tuesday 13th May – Garden Maintenance at 10.00am in Crescent Garden
Sunday 18th May – Garden Maintenance at 2.00pm in Adelaide Garden and
Wednesday 28th May – Garden Maintenance at 1.00pm in Adelaide Garden

Best wishes,

Janet Markland
Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens

Thank you to everyone who has volunteered in the Waterloo Seafront Gardens during March.

At our Saturday litter pick in Potter’s Barn there were eleven volunteers, who cleared litter from inside the garden, and alongside the railings and pavements and we also tidied up the raised bed and some of the grass borders.

At our Tuesday garden maintenance session, five of us continued to work on the path edges in Adelaide and at our Sunday session we had a magnificent sixteen, with some of us working on tidying the raised bed in Crescent Garden (pruning the very prickly Rosa Rugosa), and others planting up the central bed in Adelaide Garden.

At our Wednesday session eleven of us were also joined for the day by volunteers from Crown Commercial Services, who returned for their third year to work on edging and tidying the central area in Crescent Garden.

Our volunteer sessions during April will take place on the following dates:

Tuesday 8th – Garden Maintenance meeting at 10.00am in Adelaide Garden
Saturday 12th – Litter Picking meeting at 10.30am in the Children’s Play Park
Sunday 27th – Garden Maintenance meeting at 2.00pm in Crescent Garden*
Wednesday 23rd – Garden Maintenance meeting at 1.00pm in Adelaide Garden

*Easter Sunday session cancelled and moved to following Sunday

All equipment, and refreshments will be provided.

Please come along and join us – you don’t need to be an expert gardener!!

Janet Markland

Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens

Thank you to everyone who came along to volunteer in the Waterloo Seafront Gardens during February.

Our pond work session in Beach Lawn was well attended, with 14 joining us on both Saturday and Sunday.  We removed some more of the old reeds, cleared the new growth that has appeared over the last year and edged the grass growing around the edges of the whole pond.  We also made sure to leave alone the oxygenating plants, lilies and iris, and some of the mat that dragonflies etc. will use for breeding.  We also removed a fair quantity of bricks and other debris!

We had 12 at our litter pick in Beach Lawn, and 6 at our Wednesday garden maintenance session.

At our Tuesday session we were joined by pupils from three local schools, who did fantastic work (and worm rescuing!) helping us to continue with the edging of the paths in Adelaide Garden.  We’re nearly half way along the “top” path now, and hopefully will have finished ALL the edges in Adelaide by the end of April.  Fingers Crossed!

Our volunteers sessions during March will take place on:

Saturday 8th – Litter Picking in Potter’s Barn at 10.30am
Tuesday 11th – Garden Maintenance in Adelaide Garden at 10.00am
Sunday 16th – Garden Maintenance in Crescent Garden at 2.00pm and
Wednesday 26th – Garden Maintenance Adelaide Garden at 1.00pm.

All Equipment will be provided, as well as hot drinks and chocolate biscuits!

Looking forward to seeing you in the Gardens,

Best wishes,

Janet Markland

Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens

Thank you to all who have volunteered in the Waterloo Seafront Gardens during January.

Unfortunately we had to cancel our Saturday Litter Pick because of the ice and frosty conditions.  Our three garden maintenance sessions all went ahead though, and we have continued to work on clearing the pathways in Adelaide Garden, and on clearing the stream and overgrown rocks in Beach Lawn.

This month we will be holding our annual pond clearing weekend on 15/16th February, starting at 1.30pm in Beach Lawn.  We have to complete any work on the pond before the end of February to avoid affecting the wildlife, and we hope to clear some more of the old reeds and plant some iris that have been donated to the group.

Our other sessions during February will take place on:

Saturday 8th – litter picking meeting at 10.30am in Beach Lawn
Tuesday 11th – garden maintenance meeting at 10.00am in Adelaide Garden
Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th – pond clearing in Beach Lawn at 1.30pm
Wednesday 26th – garden maintenance meeting at 1.00pm in Adelaide Garden.

All equipment will be provided, as well as refreshments.  If you have wellies or waders they would be useful for the pond clearing.

Best wishes,

Janet Markland

Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens

The Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens would like to wish a Happy New Year to all our volunteers, members and friends.

Weather permitting, we will be starting our regular volunteer sessions next week – and these will take place on the following days each month:

Litter Picking – 2nd Saturday at 10.30am

Garden Maintenance – 2nd Tuesday at 10.00am

Garden Maintenance – 3rd Sunday at 2.00pm and

Garden Maintenance – 4th Wednesday at 1.00pm (or 7.00pm in the summer)

The venues will change, so please keep a watch out for our monthly updates.  If the weather is looking doubtful, please check our Facebook page for updates – but even if the event is cancelled, one of the Committee will always attend, just in case!!

Our volunteer sessions during January 2025 will therefore take place on:

Saturday 11th meeting at 10.30am in Adelaide Garden

Tuesday 14th meeting at 10.00am in Adelaide Garden

Sunday 19th meeting at 2.00pm in Beach Lawn and

Wednesday 22nd meeting at 1.00pm in Adelaide Garden

All equipment will be provided, as well as hot drinks and refreshments.

Looking forward to seeing you in 2025

Best wishes,

Janet Markland

Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens

 

Thank you to everyone who volunteered in the Waterloo Seafront Gardens during November.  

We had fifteen at our Saturday litter pick in Marine Garden, when we also did some work on the rockery, planting bulbs provided by Green Sefton.

There were only two garden maintenance sessions this month (we were rained off on the Sunday!).  We have continued to work on edging the bottom path in Adelaide Garden, with 4 volunteers at the Tuesday session and 5 at the Wednesday session.  Another three drains have been discovered that were completely hidden by the overgrowth and by clearing these out, hopefully any flooding will drain away more easily.

We held our AGM in November (a very pleasant evening in the Victoria Hotel) when our annual report, and suggestions for future projects were discussed.

 Our volunteer sessions during December will take place on:

Tuesday 10th  – meeting at 10.00am in Adelaide Garden (note new time)
Saturday 14th – meeting at 10.30am in Crescent Garden and
Sunday 15th – meeting at 2.00pm in Beach Lawn

All equipment for litter picking and garden maintenance will be provided, as well as refreshments.

Thank you to everyone who has joined us in the Seafront Gardens during 2024.  

We hope you have a good Christmas and New Year, and we look forward to seeing you in 2025!

Best wishes,

Janet Markland
Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens

Thank you to everyone who came along to volunteer in the Waterloo Seafront Gardens during October.  

We had 10 at our litter pick in Potter’s Barn, when in addition to litter picking, we weeded the Waterloo Rose bed, and gave the fountain a clean-up and set it running for a while – which always creates a lot of interest with passers-by!

We had a very busy and productive month with our other volunteer sessions – at our Tuesday session we were joined by 17 volunteers from Sefton4Good, who came for a “taster” and did a fantastic job continuing with our clearing of the steps in Adelaide Garden, and clearing grass from the paving in front of the shelter.  At our Sunday session, 9 of us continued to work on the stream area in Beach Lawn, and we also planted daffodil, crocus and snowdrop bulbs provided by Green Sefton.

Later in the month we were joined by a group from Diligentia, who continued with the clearing the overgrown edges on the bottom path in Adelaide Garden, and then 5 of our regular group continued with this work the next day on our Wednesday session.  The path is now about 2 foot wider in the areas worked on, and we discovered and cleared completely overgrown ground drains – to much excitement!

We will be holding our 6th Annual General Meeting on Thursday, 14 November 2024, commencing 7.30pm at the Victoria, 27 Bath Street, Waterloo, L22 5PS. All are welcome to attend.  It is also that time of year when our annual voluntary membership donation is due. A separate email will be sent out shortly with details on how to donate, but if you have already set up automatic donations then no action is required.

Our regular volunteer sessions during November will take place on:

Saturday 9th – Litter Picking at 10.30am in Marine Garden
Tuesday 12th – Garden Maintenance at 9.30am in Adelaide Garden
Sunday 17th – Garden Maintenance at 2.00pm in Beach Lawn and
Wednesday 27th – Garden Maintenance at 1.00pm in Adelaide Garden

All equipment, and refreshments will be provided.

Looking forward to seeing you in November.

Best wishes, 

Janet Markland
Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens

Dear Members,

We will be holding our 6th Annual General Meeting of Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens Charity on Thursday, 14 November 2024, commencing 7.30pm at:

The Victoria,
27 Bath St,
Waterloo,
Liverpool,
L22 5PS 

The following documents are attached on the highlighted links:

Agenda
Annual Report

Please could members confirm attendance by 31st October and, should members wish to propose any resolutions, please send these to the Secretary by email [contact@fowsg.co.uk] by noon on Thursday 31st October 2024. A revised agenda will be issued should resolutions be proposed. 

Best Wishes, 

Andrew Khodabukus
Secretary
Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens

Thank you to everyone who came along to support our Autumn Festival in Marine Garden – it was a great success and once again we were so lucky to have good weather on the day!

It was a great fundraising day for us, taking just over £1,800.   All the money raised goes back to our community via the work we undertake in the gardens.

We decided to cancel our gardening session due the day after the Festival (we were all too tired, and it poured down most of the day!!), and our Tuesday session was also rained off, but at our Wednesday afternoon session we had five volunteers who worked to clear the ivy and weeds from the steps in Adelaide Garden.  Our volunteer sessions in October will take place on:

Tuesday 8th, meeting at 9.30am in Adelaide Garden
Saturday 12th, meeting at 10.30am in Potter’s Barn
Sunday 20th, meeting at 2.00pm in Beach Lawn and
Wednesday 23rd, meeting at 1.00pm in Adelaide Garden

As usual, all equipment (and refreshments) will be provided.

Looking forward to seeing you.

Best wishes, 
 
Janet Markland
Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens