Following last week’s unbelievable UK 2025 BBC The One Show/RHS Growing Together community garden award-win by the Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD), announced on the One Show (30.9.25 & 1.10.25) and Good Morning Live (7.10.25), BBC Radio Merseyside kindly broadcasted a wonderful accolade to our community at 07:20 hours (Tuesday 14.10.25), available to listen to at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002kcmh?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Thank you to Kevin and the BBC and interviewees: Joanne (M), Joanne (B), John, Diane and Frank, and BBC presenter Angela Heslop for creating a beautiful, heartwarming montage about the award-winning Rowlands Dell Project.
Pictured: Joanne (FOMD) with BBC presenter Kevin Duala at Rowlands Dell (13.10.25).
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 www.fomd.co.uk 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