Venue & Task.

The Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) are meeting 109 Moss Lane, Maghull (L31 9AF) for one hour on Saturday (25.1.25) at 09:30 hours, to remove all the plants from the front garden and transport them for planting at Rowlands Dell (time permitting).

Please be warned that it might be heavy work digging them out, as they have been growing under semipermeable sheeting covered in slate chippings, with some being a decent size. However, there are some smaller ones, so we might be able to spread the work. Please see picture.

Alternatively, after the strong winds it would be fantastic if the twigs and branches could be collected into the main pile for future wildlife habitat creation, at Rowlands Dell, until we arrive with the donated shrubs.

Equipment needed: Spade, large garden fork, sturdy boots and garden gloves.

Huge thanks for any help you can provide and if you can’t make it please consider a financial donation to boost our green restoration planting spectacular by visiting www.fomd.co.uk and hit the yellow donation button at the top right of the page.

Lots more volunteer opportunities will be coming up soon, so please keep an eye on our events calendar.

Huge thanks to one and all,

FOMD

Together making Maghull a better place to live.

Background.

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.

Pictured: donors garden

Please Join Our Massive tree planting (2,500) program in Maghull & Lydiate early in the new year. Please register your interest ASAP by emailing admin@fomd.co.uk with your contact details and we will be delighted to get back to you to offer you some dates for our community tree planting program.

More information at www.fomd.co.uk including: (1) Events tab for everything about the meeting and (2) Projects tab for the project background.

More information. www.fomd.co.uk

Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk

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