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 (29.3.25) 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 break 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, shovel, spade, woodsaw, loppers.

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 last Saturday (22.3.25) and throughout the week, with yet another brilliant outcome in which we were able to:

• Litter picked and emptied three bins.
• Moved three tons of topsoil into wooden growing frames and mainly around the Yew tree hedge with considerable amazing support from Paul and his Mersey Care horticultural team, utilising £168 from donated funds
• Use the final woodchip to spread around the Yew tree hedge.
• Watered 225 Yew trees.
• Gratefully planted countless huge shrub and fruit tree donations from Gemma, Jean, Wally, Marion, Jill and Hayley.
• 400 m² grass area has been sown and sectioned off for the next three weeks for germination and growth, utilising £165 from donated funds.

It was another great team effort by our volunteers. A massive thank you to: John (W), Joanne, Dave, John (L), Diane, Graeme (pictured) and Colin and Frank (not pictured), and are amazing Jill who worked solo during the week. A Special thank you to The Mersey Care Horticultural Team (Phil, Steve, Dave – pictured and Paul – not pictured) for their invaluable work moving almost 3 tons of topsoil and raking and sowing 400 m² of grass seeds around the picnic area and the slope below.

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.

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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