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 (12.4.25) at 09:30 hours, to:

• Water the new Yew Tree hedge, to improve and maximise future growth and survival, following the added three tons of topsoil and new woodchip.
• Continue removing debris created from Yew tree planting – whilst it is still visible to prevent damaging tools during future maintenance work.
• Main task to continue breaking up the twigs to start creating multiple bug friendly tree and vegetation piles within the new woodland area.

Equipment needed: sturdy boots, garden gloves, and any of the following – watering can, wheelbarrow, Rake, shovel.

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.

Thank You to all the amazing volunteers over last Saturdays (5/12.4.25) and throughout the week, at Woodend with yet another brilliant outcome in which we were able to:

• Move another mountain of woodchip (created sadly from the considerable reduction of a 100-year-old tree) into the path of the children’s nature corner.
• Created a water feature in the nature corner utilising a Belfast sink (kindly donated from Marion) which has been populated with some tadpoles courtesy of Joan and will have some additional planting in the future (Pictured).
• Paul and Harry Richards (tree surgeons) for yet another generous mountain of woodchip.

It was another great team effort by our volunteers. A massive thank you to: Jill, Joan, Diane (pictured) and Colin and Frank (not pictured),

Huge thanks to one and all,

FOMD

Together making Maghull a better place to live.

Background to Rowlands.

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.

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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