Local resident Lynne Fairclough received a 2025 New Year’s Honour (British Empire Medal) for her tireless 39 years building stronger communities across Merseyside in the Neighbourhood Watch, culminating in becoming the coordinator for 1206 home watch schemes across the region! (See link below for further information), whilst also a charitable member of the Maghull Chapel and yarn bombers and much more.

https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2024/december/merseyside-homewatch-chair-awarded-bem-in-new-year-honours/

Following the Friends of Maghull and District’s (FOMD) recent appeal for donations unsurprisingly Lynne stepped up yet again and kindly donated a large fern from her garden that we were able to divide into 10 ferns (11.1.25) to start bordering the whole pathway in Rowlands Dell (pictured with a carpet of wild garlic in the background). If you would like to donate or find out more please read our appeal below.

Please help the Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) with donations of woodland themed plants/shrubs or cash donations to buy the same so we can repopulate Rowlands Dell (adjacent to the Hare & Hounds Pub). 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.

The community was unbelievable at our previous Woodend Project when local residents donated plants and funding amounting to 500 plants to form the largest community woodland border in Maghull’s history (50x4m). In Rowlands Dell we have already broken records by (1) undertaking Maghull’s biggest ever cleanup and (2) attracted Maghull’s largest ever green hard landscaping investment (see background) but (3) putting nature back into the Dell represents the most exciting stage.

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 between January and March 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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