One Hour Volunteer Opportunities below.

We have regular welcoming multi-award-winning one-hour sessions you can just drop into any time without any commitment. 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 Saturday (27.9.25) at 09.00 hours, to:

• Mainly Weeding.
• Trim car park hedge and ivy perimeter.
• Mow grass
• Water new yew hedge.

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

Thank You.

We are always astonished by how much can be achieved in just one hour with a handful of volunteers for the good of Maghull. We met for an impromptu meeting (13.9.25) at the Rowlands Dell green restoration project and were joined by award-winning horticulturist Nikki Fenner and her husband Ian and gratefully achieved the following:

• Trimmed perimeter Hedge bordering Westway medical Centre car park, removing several agricultural bags to the recycling centre (Nikki)
• Strimmed grass and weeds around dry waterfall rockery and leaf blowed paths (Ian)
• Weeded around new shrubs in the upper sloped border (Christina, Linda, Diane).
• Emptied three bins and mowed the newly sown grass sloping down from the picnic tables (Frank).
• Wishing Well roof installed (Alex and his TCV Team – midweek)
• Top Tips and large conifer donation (Nikki & Ian).

Pictured: Christina, Diane, Ian, Linda, Nikki and not pictured Frank next to the developing Wishing Well.

If You Would like to Help?

• Volunteer sessions this week (everyone is welcome without any commitment) can be found on our Events calendar page at https://www.fomd.co.uk/events/ where you will find all the details.
• Crowdfunding Campaign. So far, with your help, we have raised enough money for one path extension (£7,600) but we are hoping to raise another £7000 for another crucial connecting path and much-needed large-scale woodland shrubs. Please donate online at Donate or with cash at the Hare & Hounds PH, Morrisons, Esso Petrol Station.
• Rowlands Dell Introduction (3min Video): https://youtu.be/lxrTdudVza8?si=AM_znsaI35Cose-M

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 of our NHS landowner partners we successfully obtained a 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). A Morrisons grant has enabled us to create the ongoing bog garden and wishing well.

We are now engaging in stage three to repopulate Rowlands Dell with woodland planting and need your help.

Best Wishes,

Friends of Maghull & District (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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