This week we have completed some remarkable achievements with a new log archway, wildlife bog garden, revamped the old pathway, and launched our £15,000 crowdfunding appeal for the final stage later this year to create a lower pathway and woodland planting.

Can you help with the ongoing transformation?

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 Friday (16.5.25) at 10.00 hours, to:

• Continue bagging debris created from Yew tree.
• Water Yew tree hedge.
• Dig out sprouting brambles.
• Some donated plants need planting.

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

Huge thanks for any help you can provide. Please consider a financial donation to boost our green restoration planting spectacular and final pathway by visiting www.fomd.co.uk and hit the yellow donation button at the top right of the page. Our new 2 of 25-week appeal has started with £653.56 towards our £15,000 target.

Lots more volunteer opportunities will be coming up soon, so please keep an eye on our events calendar.

Thank You 

We are very grateful to our volunteers Ken, John, Dave, Linda (pictured), Colin and Frank (not pictured) and Jill (throughout the week), who made a fantastic difference in just one hour (Saturday 10.5.25) by:

• Three explanatory signage posts installed (for archway, bog garden, new woodland) expertly by Ken.
• Our Local Firwood for the kind discount on the two posts and four bags of post-mix.
• Watering of 225 new yew trees by John with crucial grateful water from our neighbour Anne.
• Countless irises donated via Joan and planted by Linda and Colin in the ongoing bog garden with evolving work undertaken midweek by our partners TCV.
• Weeding brambles by Colin and Linda (and Jill midweek) from the new beautifully evolving grassed area being created by the Ashworth Hospital horticultural team.
• Log Donations to extend the border of the new upper path were donated by a Rowlands Dell neighbour (Jamie and his wife) courtesy of Derek Cunningham (Tree Surgeons).
• Plant donations dropped off by Joanne.
• Three bins emptied and two large agricultural bags of debris collected and transported to the recycling centre by Frank.
• Gravel removed and recycled by Colin.
• Old dangerous central path restored with considerable/unimaginable generosity by Winvic construction and their subcontractors (a full thank you will be provided later)
• Finally, a huge thank you for all the precious cash donations that we hope you can continue to help with by sharing the word and not least the generous words from everyone who passes through.

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 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.

Huge thanks to one and all,

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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