Huge Thanks to the following for helping make such a positive difference to our community this week:

  • Thank you to Jackie for kindly donating a hydrangea and small Christmas tree.
  • Thank you to Carol who kindly donated a hydrangea, golden dwarf conifer, margarita and geraniums.
  • Thank you Leigh who donated and dropped off a Holly and hydrangea.
  • Thank you also to our volunteers, who either dug out, transported and planted the donated plants and previously donated 20 small trees, on Saturday 8.2.25: Diane and Joan gathered and heaped leaf debris for a future bug house project, John (L) (all pictured) and John (W), Colin and Frank (not pictured) who had the difficult task of planting the trees and plants in the upper border which still has some remnants of rubble debris.

Rowlands Dell is getting better by the day as we try to put so much nature back into the space following months of clearing it out. We are also delighted with the installation of a galvanised archway entrance, Undertaken by Challenge Forge, funded by the local Co-op, organised by FOMD, to raise awareness of the ‘overarching’ term neuro diversity. The arch is incomplete as it requires to be populated with logs which will hopefully be undertaken in the next couple of weeks, when we will provide more information.

The Friends of Maghull & District’s (FOMD) latest project of many, at the NHS Rowlands Health and Wellness Dell (adjacent to the Hare & Hounds Pub) has involved Maghull’s biggest ever volunteer cleanup and green investment but now needs donations of hundreds of woodland shrubs and shrub funding, during the dormant winter period, which is ideal for planting.

The final stage is now the most exciting which is focusing on repopulating the Dell with woodland themed plants. Although we are applying for suitable grants, we would really value a repeat your amazing support when you donated woodland shrubs and funds to enable us to populate our previous project at Woodend/Bobby’s Wood to fill Maghull’s largest (50x4m) community border with 500 shrubs.

We are looking for: hydrangeas, rhododendrons, ferns, hollies, heathers, azaleas, tree ferns, laurels, etc to populate the area between the new upper path and the top of the slope.

You can donate funds through our yellow donate button on our webpage https://www.fomd.co.uk/ or if you would like to donate plants please email admin@fomd.co.uk

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.

Please Join Our Massive tree planting (2,500) program in Maghull & Lydiate in January and February 2025. Please register your interest ASAP by emailing admin@fomd.co.uk with your contact details and we will be delighted to get back to you to offer you some dates for our community tree planting program.

More information at www.fomd.co.uk including: (1) Events tab for everything about the meeting and (2) Projects tab for the project background.

All the Best

FOMD

Together Making Maghull a better place to live.

More information. www.fomd.co.uk

Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk

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Pictures: the upper border gradually getting populated by trees and shrubs.