We have welcoming regular multi-award-winning one-hour sessions you can just drop into any time.

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 Saturday (2.8.25) 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 Charles, Diane, Linda, Jill, Steve, Ken (pictured) and Joan, John, Frank, Colin (not pictured), for last week’s session (26.7.25) and Jill & Frank midweek and Alex, Jess, Joe, Peter, Neil (Tue-Thur, from TCV working on the Well and bog garden) who undertook the following:

• Weeded hundreds of trees healed into a trough for the new planting season (Linda and Diane) with a large agricultural bag of debris and weeds taken to the recycling centre (Frank)
• Paths brushed brand-new (Charles)
• Eight prickly Pyracanthas planted and large area of weeding (Jill).
• 20+ Pyracantha, box trees, and laurels planted and watered into challenging areas (Colin, Joan and John)
• Newly grown grass cut (Frank)
• Bug Hotel roof beautifully and skilfully made and safely attached (Steve) and kindly transported (Ken)
• Three Bins Emptied (Frank)
• Wishing Well – wall completed, wooden uprights concreted in, roof to be attached and metalwork to be assessed. Bog garden – small pond to be created within bog garden, soil, rocks and grasses to be inserted this week (Alex, Neil, Jess, Joe, Pete)

• New wheelbarrow man installation started with a tree post rammed into the ground (John, Frank)

Urgent  Crowdfunding Donations Needed for Rowlands Dell.

We need to raise £8769 before October (86 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 potential match funding we have established a new (5.6.25) donation page (to date 29.7.25 raised £4198 = 47%) Your support in the form of donations (minimum £2), ‘likes’ and ‘positive comments’, is a measure that can trigger match funding, involving up to 40% of our target.

Please encourage everyone you know to donate any amount, ‘like’ and post a positive comment. The website also has a short introductory video

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

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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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