Share the Christmas love and burn a few calories in a one-hour unconditional volunteer event at the award-winning community green transformation project at Rowlands Dell, on Saturday (20.12.25).

Following the extraordinarily successful transformative big planting day on Monday (8.12.25) of 600 ferns and 1000 daffodil bulbs at Rowlands Dell we need your help to finish it off.

Venue & Tasks.

FOMD with your kind support, are mainly wheelbarrowing a small mountain of woodchip from the top of the Dell to the bottom, to spread around the newly planted 600 ferns, in our last event before Christmas.

We would love your help with any time you can spare from 09.00 hours on Saturday (20 12.25), at Rowlands Dell (opposite the newly refurbished Hare & Hounds PH, L31 2HF), to make a fantastic difference to our environment and burn some pre-indulgent festive calories!

Equipment needed: sturdy boots, garden gloves (essential), wheelbarrow (if possible).

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 installed one more health and wellness path 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.

Thank you to: FOMD volunteers – Jill, Ian (pictured), Frank and Graeme (not pictured), who attended an early sunny morning session today (19.12.25) to brilliantly achieve the following:

• Made a significant dent in moving tons of woodchip (courtesy of Saxon Tree Specialists) from the top tipping area to the lower fernery area for future mulch spreading around 600 newly planted ferns.

• Planted several hundred leftover daffodil bulbs along the newly created lower pathway and last years installed pathway.
• A special thank you to Colin for spreading mulch around the ferns solo this week and dropping off more digitalis today.

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.

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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