November 2025
2024-2025 Trustees Report
Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Who We Are
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Potter's Barn Marine Garden Crescent Garden
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Adelaide Garden
Beach Lawn Garden
Southport Flower Show
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14 Gratitude
Community Session, February 2025, Adelaide Garden
Who we are
Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens help the local authority to care for the Waterloo Seafront Gardens - five separate spaces where the city meets the sea.
We want to maintain and restore the Gardens as an attractive and safe area for all ages and abilities to use for recreation and environmental wellbeing.
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Website: http://www.fowsg.co.uk/
What we do
Protecting
Maintaining the Gardens for the pleasure of local people through weekly volunteer sessions, include regular litter picking.
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Preserving
The weekly volunteer sessions include gardening activities where we renovate beds and the special features in our Gardens.
Rebuilding
Fundraising to preserve the heritage of the Gardens through online donations second hand book and card sales and our annual Autumn Festival.
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Potter's Barn
Potter's Barn is a lively park with great facilities for dog walkers and skaters alike. It is also a green lung by the main road. Unfortunately this year we sustained thefts of plants in the raised beds by the entrance to Crosby Road North. The committee has developed a funding bid to replace these plants and plant more bulbs in the woodland beds.
Daffodils, March 2025
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Marine Garden, September 2025
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Marine Garden - along with Crescent Garden – act as the two entry points for the Gardens from South Road. The Garden has a substantial rockery, bog garden and large lawned area. It also hosts our annual Autumn Festival.
This year we have continued to maintain the honeycomb paving at the base of the rockery. We had a fantastic team from BDO who worked on this area and made a great difference.
BDO, Marine Garden, September 2025
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Crescent Garden
As our largest Garden, there is always much to do in Crescent. In 2025 we have continued to clear back overgrown mats of grass to uncover the original 1930s edging.
Thank you to our members, volunteers and Crown Commercial Services who have continued to partner with us.
CCSs work over the last threeyears has really made a difference.
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Adelaide Garden
Adelaide is one of our most elegant Gardens with a pleasing symmetry to it.
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Before Clearance, Adelaide
December 2023
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2025 has seen a lot of work in the Garden as our focus for this year.
We have cut back the overgrown edges of the lawn that was encroaching the paths, helped by volunteers from local schools.
The central bed has been replanted, replacing overgrown conifers with a biodiverse perennial planting scheme with shrubs.
We thank Lynne Webb for her kind donations.
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Beach Lawn, Winter 2025
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We had a further set of action days in Beach Lawn to continue the work of clearing the invasive bulrushes which have taken over much of the area.
We have also worked on the ravine and rockery area to uncover stone ornamental areas along the path.
Beach Lawn, May 2025
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Southport Flower Show , August 2025
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We’re proud to have made our debut at this year’s Southport Flower Show with a raised bed display that exceeded expectations. Thanks to the Merseyside Civic Society for inviting us to showcase our horticultural skills at this prestigious event, and to Magill’s Nursery for their sponsorship. Even without knowing exactly what to expect, we were told that we delivered an impressive display.
Our raised bed was a success—we were pleased with the result and we’re already full of ideas for next year. Appearing at the Southport Flower Show is a big milestone for us as a community organisation. We care for the seafront gardens in Waterloo and regularly host volunteer gardening sessions and community events.
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Our maximum monthly Facebook Followers reach on Facebook
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Social Media Accounts
The Friends continues to have a strong on-line presence. In addition to our web-site we have a number of active social media platforms.
Thanks to Karen Abram who manages our social media presence with great aplomb and to Malcolm Marriott of Barkeley Media for his help with the website
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Volunteers Cooling Down, May
2025
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~~Dl ———~~ Our Impact
145 hours 32 volunteers Litter Picking
754 hours 33 volunteers Gardening
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
Aesop’s Fables “The Lion & The Mouse”
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Ted, Canine Volunteer,
March 2025
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Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens Accounts - - - 01 September 2024 to 31 August 2025
| Opening Balance at bank 01/09/2024 | Opening Balance at bank 01/09/2024 | Opening Balance at bank 01/09/2024 | Opening Balance at bank 01/09/2024 | £9,536.55 |
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| INCOME | ||||
| Bank Income | ||||
| Local Giving | 1222.34 | |||
| Subscriptions and Memberships | 251.23 | |||
| Donation Posts | 40.42 | |||
| Book Sales | 155.54 | |||
| Theatre in the Gardens - Refreshments | 48.30 | |||
| Autumn Festival 2024 - PayPal Card Machine | 233.34 | |||
| Autumn Festival 2024 - Cash Takings | 1570.30 | |||
| Facebook Fundraiser | 60.00 | |||
| Autumn Festival 2025 - Stall Deposits | 30.00 | |||
| Donation - Claire Curtis-Thomas NGS 125.00 | ||||
| Debtors | None | 0.00 | ||
| INCOME | £3,925.16 | |||
| EXPENSES | ||||
| Festival Expenses 2024 | 1015.75 | |||
| Plants & Bark | 185.37 | |||
| Gardening Equipment | 129.18 | |||
| Nature Sign Design - Interpretation Board | 2,244.00 | |||
| Volunteer Refeshments and Thanks | 165.15 | |||
| Public Liability Insurance | 416.86 | |||
| Merseyside Civic Society Annual Subscription | 20.00 | |||
| Fundraising Charges | 180.00 | |||
| HiViz Vests | 247.59 | |||
| External Services - Beach Lawn Pond | 160.00 | |||
| Volunteer and Publiciity Posters and Flyers | 134.88 | |||
| Cash Payments | Creditors | 0.00 | ||
| Website Payments | 67.07 | |||
| EXPENDITURE | £4,808.40 | |||
| GAIN(LOSS) | -£883.24 | |||
| Closing Balance 31/08/2025 | £8,653.31 |
Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens
Registered Charity 1169385 contact@fowsg.co.uk
Gratitude
Members of FoWSG
Trustees of FoWSG
Crown Commercial Service
BDO
Liverpool Home Office Service and Support Centre
Sefton CVS
Sefton4Good
The Victoria Pub
DEFRA Plant Health Agency
Malcolm Marriott, Barkeley Media
Steven Garnett, Merseyside Civic Society Green Sefton
Angela Griffiths, Green Sefton
George and David Howells
Lynne Webb
Kerry Pavey, Sefton Council Tess Almond, Tony Almond Home & Garden, 52-54 South Road, Waterloo, L22 5PQ Claire Magill, Magill’s Nurseries, Leasowe Rd, Wallasey, CH45 8LW
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