We have welcoming regular multi-award-winning one-hour sessions you can just drop into any time. No special skills needed just a healthy dose of enthusiasm.

Venue & Tasks.

The Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) need volunteers to meet at Rowlands Dell (adjacent to the Hare & Hounds Pub) for one hour on Wednesday (6.8.25) at 09.30 hours, to:

• Plant Donated shrubs.
• Sow grass seed where previous seeds have not taken.
• Cut Car park hedge.
• Weeding

Equipment needed: sturdy boots, garden gloves, spade, and garden fork

Thank You to: Diane, Linda, Joan, Dave, Jill, (pictured) and John, Frank, Colin (not pictured), for last Saturdays session (2.8.25) and Jill midweek who undertook the following:

• Weeded raised plant frames and junction borders (Linda and Diane) filling a large agricultural bag of debris and weeds taken to the recycling centre (Frank)
• Emptied Three Bins (Frank)
• Planted and watered in countless donated Pyracanthas, box shrubs, laurels in large sloped upper border and path junctions (Colin, John, Joan, Dave)
• A special thank you to our neighbour (Anne) for providing the crucial water and her incredible £50 donation

Crowdfunding Donations Needed for Rowlands Dell.

Our second milestone is so close! We are just finishing the second month of four, aiming for a 25% monthly target, currently with 108 donors who have pledged £4373 which is 49% of our £8,772 goal. To achieve the July 50% target of £4386 we just need to raise £13!

We need to raise £8772 before October (79 days!), to pay for a lower connecting path (creating a circular health and wellness walk) and a huge array of much-needed woodland plants.

To attract substantial match funding we need your kind support on our crowdfunding webpage in the form of donations (minimum £2), ‘likes’,  ‘positive comments’ and please share, as positive community engagement is a measure that can trigger match funding, involving up to 40% of our target! The website also has a short introductory video.

DONATE AT  https://www.spacehive.com/rowlandsdell

Share with everyone using the share button below the main picture on the website.

Background to Rowlands Dell.

This beautiful haven for wildlife has unbelievably been treated as an open tip for decades, where every inch has revealed a variety of pollutants harmful to wildlife. In our three-stage plan, stage I has resulted in Maghull’s biggest ever 46-week cleanup in which FOMD have removed 300 bin bags of litter and 25 tons of debris.

In Stage II (completed in November), with the help our NHS landowner partners we successfully obtained health and wellness grant (Maghull’s largest green investment) to fund an amazing legacy array of hard landscaping installations.  These features provided accessibility for the whole community and included: accessible path, viewing/picnic area, sunken garden, bins, 10,000 bulbs and planting at small junction points, bug and bird boxes, and a dry waterfall feature).

We are now engaging in stage three to repopulate Rowlands Dell with woodland planting and need your help.

Many Thanks and Best Wishes,

FOMD

Together making Maghull a better place to live.

More information at www.fomd.co.uk including: (1) Events tab for everything about the meeting and (2) Projects tab for the project background.

Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk

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