The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) were founded in the 1950s and have grown into one of the largest national volunteer conservation groups in the UK. Amongst many of their achievements is their ‘I Dig Trees’ campaign which over the last 10 years has resulted in the planting and supplying of free trees to other community groups culminating in the planting 4.3 million trees over the last 10 years!

The Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) have sourced many of the 18,000 trees planted in Maghull/Lydiate from TCV over the last three years and in recognition of our planting of 1466 trees at St Gregory’s primary school early this year the children and volunteers have appeared literally front (front page) and centre (section 5) in their prestigious annual national report which is a fantastic positive 20 minute read in the following link https://www.tcv.org.uk/i-dig-trees-free-trees/i-dig-trees-reporting/

The I Dig Trees 2024-25 report celebrates the UK’s largest community-led tree planting initiative and the volunteers, partners, donors and supporters making a real impact for climate, wildlife and communities.

‘Our FOMD volunteers and every single child at the school were involved from the Nursery to Year Six, and everybody had a thoroughly enjoyable and educational day, leaving a fantastic legacy for the community and wildlife.’ Dr Frank Sharp (FOMD) at St Gregory’s Primary School (4.3.25).

Find out how FOMD planted 18,000 trees in Maghull with heartwarming accounts in these two links:

https://www.fomd.co.uk/we-did-it-tree-mendous-times-for-maghull-and-lydiate/

https://www.fomd.co.uk/tree-project/

Main Picture: A beautiful and enthusiastic picture that captures one of the many classes of children from St Gregory’s Primary School engaging in the tree planting with FOMD volunteers and the brilliant Ben Greenaway (Mersey Forest).

 

DONATIONS NEEDED PLEASE!

In the meantime, we really need your support to boost our crowdfunding donations to enable the completion of this fantastic community project at Rowlands Dell.

We need to raise £8772 before October (79 days!), to pay for a lower connecting path (creating a circular health and wellness walk) and a huge array of much-needed woodland plants.

To attract substantial match funding we need your kind support on our crowdfunding webpage in the form of donations (minimum £2), ‘likes’,  ‘positive comments’ and please share, as positive community engagement is a measure that can trigger match funding, involving up to 40% of our target! The website also has a short introductory video.

DONATE AT  https://www.spacehive.com/rowlandsdell

Share with everyone using the share button below the main picture on the website.

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 our NHS landowner partners we successfully obtained 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).

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

Many Thanks and Best Wishes,

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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