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 (15.3.25) at 09:30 hours, to:

• Wheelbarrow woodchip around new plants and the new woodland trees to create an attractive mulch to hydrate trees and suppress competitive weeds.
• Remove debris created from Yew tree planting – whilst it is still visible to prevent damaging tools during future maintenance work.
• Water in the new Yew Tree Hedge and review planting to maximise its survival.

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

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 (8.3.25) with yet another brilliant outcome in which we were able to:

• Fully secured the 1500 tree guards by hammering in each cane individually.
• Litter picked and emptied two bins.
• Removed and transferred one of the two mountains of woodchip around the new Westway hedge, plant donations, and one of the sloping borders to suppress to suppress growth.
• Watered 225 Yew trees.
• Installed further large logs along the new top border pathway.

It was an incredible team effort by our volunteers and an amazing spontaneous volunteer (Chika) who was on his break from Morrisons. Thank you to: John (L), Joanne, Dave, Chika, (pictured), John (W) and Frank (not pictured). Not forgetting, Jill who has been attending throughout the week removing large amounts of debris and litter dug up when we were planting the Yew tree hedge, planting pansies, and Frank who transferred two stunningly beautiful Korean fir trees that we have been growing for several years elsewhere.

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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