Please can you help – Following the successful big planting day (8.12.25) of 600 ferns,1200 daffodil bulbs and 50m path installation at the national award-winning Rowlands Dell, we need your help to finish it off.

Venue & Tasks.

We would love your help for a spare one hour from 09.30 hours on Saturday (24.1.26), at Rowlands Dell (opposite the newly refurbished Hare & Hounds PH, L31 2HF), to make a fantastic difference to our environment.

Several tasks to choose from:

• Wheelbarrowing soil to backfill new path.
• Creating a dead hedge to hide the new compost bin made from recycled pallets.
• Weeding new woodland.
• Planting 50 crowdfunded spikey red cushion pyracantha plants.
• Cutting back Ivy hedge.

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

Huge thanks to John, Joan, Linda, Clare (pictured) and Colin & Frank (not pictured) last Saturday (17.1.26) who remarkably achieved the following in only one hour:

• Continued creating new wildlife friendly dead hedge to hide the recycled pallet compost bins.
• Wishing Well: Neil and Frank met local plumber Lindsey to plan the installation of a electrical pump, copper piping, and a bucket to create a tranquil cascading water feature.
• 25×3 L holes dug out for future planting of red cushion pyracantha.
• Three bins emptied.

Pictured: our amazing volunteers standing on the new path overlooking 50 prepared holes for the planting of the pyracantha.

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 and Exciting Developments at 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 (2024).

In Stage II (November 2024), 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 (2025/26) to repopulate Rowlands Dell with woodland planting, extend the paths, which crowdfunding in 2025 and will continue through 2026.

So, it was with great excitement we spent £8,000 on installing one more health and wellness path, utilised £2500 to create a woodland fern area, lining a path through the fernery to a new orchard with 1200 daffodils complementing the 10,000 planted last year. This planting area will be one of four distinct co-dependent woodland nature areas that will encourage and invite interest whilst providing biodiversity.

We now need your help throughout 2026 for funding and planting to create a beautiful restorative legacy haven.

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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