…if you have any bug loving materials pop in anytime with your children and build the hotel as pictured.

The bug hotel is really coming on. We have mounted the multiple Windmill nursery donated pallets on breeze blocks. Steve has created and attached a brilliant roof with chimney. Frank has felted and artificially grassed the roof and will create some bird/bat holes in the roof.

Now we need your help to make it a comfortable home for our future bug hotel residents.

One Hour Volunteer Opportunities below.

We have regular welcoming multi-award-winning one-hour sessions you can just drop into any time. No special skills needed just a healthy dose of enthusiasm.

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 Wednesday (13.8.25) at 09.30 hours, to:

• Plant Donated shrubs.
• Sow grass seed where previous seeds have not taken.
• Cut Car park hedge.
• Weeding
• Complete bug hotel construction.
• Emptying three bins
• Grass Cutting

Equipment needed: sturdy boots, garden gloves, spade, and garden fork

Thank You to:  Linda, Joan (pictured), Frank and Jill midweek. for last Saturdays session (9.8.25) who undertook the following:

• Planted and watered in countless donated Pyracanthas, box shrubs, laurels (pictured) in large sloped upper border.
• Bug hotel construction continued with chimney attached to roof (Steve) and felt and grass fitted on the roof and bug friendly bricks and logs inserted (Frank).
• Countless shrub donations and bug hotel pallets have been gratefully received by the sad closure of Windmill Nursery with the closure managed by the late Tom Johnson’s sister Helen (pictured first right ) and her husband John.
• Nettle free pathway created to memorial trees with strimmer (Shameem)

Picture: super volunteers Joan and Linda (1st & 3^rd L-R), father and son who was both inquisitive and enchanted by the bug hotel, and special visitor – Helen (1^st R) who called in following her hugely generous Windmill nursery plant donations along with some recent dozens of weed suppressant material rolls.

Crowdfunding Donations Needed for Rowlands Dell.

Our second milestone has just been achieved! After the last two successful months achieving our planned 50% target, we want to achieve our 75% target in August with a little help from you.

Currently (10.8.25) we have 111 donors who have pledged £4,458 which is 50% of our £8,773 goal. To achieve the August 75% target of £6580 we now need to raise £2127!

Overall, we need to raise £8773 before October (72 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 substantial match funding we need your kind support on our crowdfunding webpage in the form of donations (minimum £2), ‘likes’,  ‘positive comments’ and please share, as positive community engagement is a measure that can trigger match funding, involving up to 40% of our target! The website also has a short introductory video.

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

Share with everyone using the share button below the main picture on the website.

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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