Please can you help  – Following the extraordinarily successful transformative big planting day on Monday (8.12.25) of 600 ferns,1200 daffodil bulbs and 85m path installation at Rowlands Dell we need your help to finish it off. The forecast suggests a cold sunny morning, but if it is still icy please don’t risk travelling.

Venue & Tasks.

We would love your help with any time you can spare from 09.30 hours on Saturday (10.1.26), at Rowlands Dell (opposite the newly refurbished Hare & Hounds PH, L31 2HF), to make a fantastic difference to our environment and burn some festive calories!

Several tasks to choose from:

• Wheelbarrowing soil to backfill new path.
• Wheelbarrowing rocks to backfill new path.
• Recycling pallet crates into compost bins and creating a dead hedge to hide pallets.
• Weeding new woodland or new hedging.
• Painting lectern angled posts with wood preservative for future signage.
• Digging 50 3L holes for future red cushion pyracantha planting.
• Dismantling Nativity.

Equipment needed: sturdy boots, garden gloves, garden/hand fork, kneeling pad, spade.

Huge thanks to those pictured for braving the sunny cold weather last Saturday (3.1.26) to remarkably achieve the following in only one hour:

• Compost pallet bin doors created and filled with vegetation.
• Rock spoil wheelbarrowed to backfill newly created 85 m health and wellness path.
• Hundreds of perimeter wildlife friendly hedge trees were weeded to maximise hedge growth by an evidence-based 40%!
• Posts sawn to an angle to enable lectern style information signage to be attached in the future.

Pictured: Joanne, Ian, Joan, Nikki, Joe, John and not pictured Frank and Colin with our funky Father Christmas and installation.

Background Summary: 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 was with great excitement this week that we spent £12,000 on installing two more health and wellness paths and £2500 to create a woodland fern area, 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.

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 to recently install a 50m  path extension but we are hoping to raise further funds for a 35m path extension and much-needed large-scale woodland shrubs in 2025/26. 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.

All the Best,

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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