FoAM gets funding

The Friends of Anderton and Marbury (FoAM) have been successful in obtaining funding to enable three areas of wildflower planting to be created at Marbury.

Thanks to a grant of just under £10,000 through the Landfill Communities Fund of Waste Recycling Group (WRG) administered by the Environmental body WREN, the project will be going ahead later this year.

Of course, our application could not have been successful without support from the local community and we received many letters of support from local colleges, schools, businesses, community groups and individuals. In particular, generous pledges of financial support to the project were received from Anderton with Marbury Parish Council, Brunner Mond, The Mersey Forest, Action Weaver Valley and Cheshire County Council, together with a contribution from FoAM’s own funds.

Including the grant, pledges of support and volunteer labour, the total cost of the project will be just over £12,000. We look forward to starting the work later this year with the involvement of volunteers and local schoolchildren, who have offered to help with the planting.