Venue & Tasks.

FOMD with your kind support are planting 600 ferns, 1200 daffodil bulbs, some fruit trees and would love your help with any time you can spare between 10:00 hours and 15:30 hours on Monday 8.12.25, at Rowlands Dell (opposite the newly refurbished Hare & Hounds PH, L31 2HF), to make a fantastic difference to our environment.

After making the Dell safe by spending one year removing pollutants in the town’s largest ever cleanup (300 binbags of litter and 25 tons of debris), making the Dell accessible with Maghull’s largest social value grant, we have spent the last year undertaking crowdfunding events to restore and enhance this nature haven. So it is with great excitement that we are spending £12,000 on two more health and wellness paths and £2500 to create a woodland fern area and lining a path through a new orchard with 1200 daffodils complementing the 10,000 planted last year. This planting area will be one of four distinct woodland nature areas that will encourage and invite interest whilst providing biodiversity.

Equipment needed: sturdy boots, garden gloves, hand or garden fork, kneeling mat, spade.

Thank you to Ros, Linda, John, Jill (pictured around new nativity installation): Colin and Frank (not pictured) who today (3.12.25) amazingly achieve the following:

• Weeded the lower section (pictured) in preparation for the fern planting
• Installed Christmas sign on archway and upgraded Christmas glasses on John Barrowman
• Planted two donated pyracantha’s (courtesy of local resident Mel)
• Created two beautiful stumpery areas (pictured) alongside pathways utilising 30 logs (courtesy of Stephen Pye Tree Services from Preston, subcontracted by a local housing organisation).
• Installed beautiful nativity scene.

If You Would like to Help in the Future?

Volunteer sessions this week (everyone is welcome without any commitment) can be found on our Events calendar page at https://www.fomd.co.uk/events/ where you will find all the details.

Crowdfunding Campaign. So far, with your help, we have raised enough money for one 50m path extension (£7,600) which will commence in December but we are hoping to raise another £7000 for another crucial 35m connecting path and much-needed large-scale woodland shrubs. Please donate online at www.fomd.co.uk or with cash at the Hare & Hounds PH, Morrisons, Esso Petrol Station.

Rowlands Dell Introduction (3min Video): https://youtu.be/lxrTdudVza8?si=AM_znsaI35Cose-M

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 of our NHS landowner partners we successfully obtained a 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). A Morrisons grant has enabled us to create the ongoing bog garden and wishing well.

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

Best Wishes,

Friends of Maghull & District (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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New Stumpery

Weeded area for mass fern planting

Nativity and amazing volunteers

some of the 30 stumpery logs