It is remarkable what can be achieved in only one hour by our community at the beautiful Rowlands Dell, in the Friends of Maghull & District’s regular weekly session (see below).

During the last 18 months we have undertaken an unprecedented environmental cleanup and the largest funding for green accessibility features. However, this year we are maintaining and restoring nature but need your support to complete this final third stage with precious donations to pay for a £10,500 path and £4500 of woodland planting, at our beautiful green Rowlands Dell transformation project, adjacent to the Hare & Hounds Pub.

Donations can be made at:

Donation Update. (4.3% in week 1 of 25!)

Remarkably in the first week of our 25 week, £15,000 funding appeal (WC 6.5.25) you have gratefully donated 4.3% (£653.56) already that includes £300 from Bellway Homes, £118.17 donated in week one, and £235.39 we have added from unplanned donations over the last year. Please help over the next 24 weeks by spreading the word to friends and colleagues and we will keep you updated along the way.

Your kind donation will help us complete a circular path at the lower section, including steps and a stunning area of shade loving plants, that will be undertaken together with our partners The Conservation Volunteers (TCV), before the end of 2025.

Grateful Thanks.

We are very grateful to our volunteers Ken, John, Dave, Linda (pictured), Colin and Frank (not pictured) and Jill (throughout the week), who made a fantastic difference in just one hour (Saturday 10.5.25) by:

  • Three explanatory signage posts installed (for archway, bog garden, new woodland) expertly by Ken.
  • Our Local Firwood for the kind discount on the two posts and four bags of post-mix.
  • Watering of 225 new yew trees by John with crucial grateful water from our neighbour Anne.
  • Countless irises donated via Joan and planted by Linda and Colin in the ongoing bog garden with evolving work undertaken midweek by our partners TCV.
  • Weeding brambles by Colin and Linda (and Jill midweek) from the new beautifully evolving grassed area being created by the Ashworth Hospital horticultural team.
  • Log Donations to extend the border of the new upper path were donated by a Rowlands Dell neighbour (Jamie and his wife) courtesy of Derek Cunningham (Tree Surgeons).
  • Plant donations dropped off by Joanne.
  • Three bins emptied and two large agricultural bags of debris collected and transported to the recycling centre by Frank.
  • Gravel removed and recycled by Colin.
  • Old dangerous central path restored with considerable/unimaginable generosity by Winvic construction and their subcontractors (a full thank you will be provided later)
  • Finally, a huge thank you for all the precious cash donations that we hope you can continue to help with by sharing the word and not least the generous words from everyone who passes through.

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 266 bin bags of litter and 25 tons of debris. In the two months of Stage II, that was completed in November, with our NHS landowner partners (expertly installed by subcontractors – PR England Landscapers) using a health and wellness grant fund (representing Maghull’s largest green investment) have installed an amazing legacy array of hard landscaping installations to provide accessibility for the whole community (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.

You are amazing! With huge thanks.

FOMD

Together Making Maghull a Better Place to Live.

 More information. www.fomd.co.uk

Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk

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