Can you spare one hour, without any commitment, on Saturday (20.4.24) meeting at 10.00 hours, in Rowlands Dell (adjacent to the Hare & Hounds Pub). We are simply raking a large area, to unearth and remove decades of neglect before the spring growth returns.

We have removed an unbelievable amount of debris already, but having recently removed large areas of ground Ivy, the serious debris is now just beneath the surface. We want to remove this debris before the spring growth returns, to enable us to re-establish a safe and environmentally friendly haven for the good of the community, nature and wildlife.

We have recently finished the south slope which is now ready for the weed suppressing woodchip, so we will now be focusing on removing all the debris from the North Slope.

Weekly Achievements & Thanks.

Last Thursday (11.4.24) our brilliant volunteers, focused on removing further debris from the bottom of the south slope, to make it more presentable for the renaming ceremony on Saturday (13.4.24). They removed, two bin bags of litter, two buckets of rubble debris, and four agricultural bags of tenacious damaging Ivy.

After the one-hour, Jill and I stayed on a little longer to safely brush cut the exposed Ivy roots and runners, Jill kindly raked and tidied everything away, and on Sunday I took the debris away with two trips to the recycling centre.

German Iris Donation: A further thank you to Richard (a local resident) who kindly donated 50 German Irises, which Jill (huge thanks) and I planted within the right-hand wildflower bed of our Stafford Moreton Way Project, which will hopefully provide some variety following the oxide Daisy becoming the dominant wildflower.

Please check our website’s ‘event’ page at www.fomd.co.uk for more information and any last-minute changes. This is a one-hour event, without any commitment.

Equipment. All you will need are:

Sturdy boots, garden gloves (essentials)

• If you would like to urgently remove the debris, please bring litter picker, garden fork, rigid rake (essential) not a lawn rake, to remove some of the embedded litter.
• If you are interested in helping to remove the ground Ivy to enable us to access the debris beneath, please bring a brush cutter/strimmer, protective glasses.
• If you’d like to trim the Ivy hedge, please bring hedge cutter, tree loppers.

Overall, our one-hour sessions over the last 25 consecutive weeks have resulted in collecting 175 bin bags of litter, a huge array of debris and 32 agricultural bags (plus an additional 2 ½ tons removed!) of tree and wall damaging Ivy, with multiple trips to the recycling centre. We have received some wonderful feedback and are clearly seeing the difference every time we are there.

This preparation is for Stage Two involving future green landscaping and planting which has been delayed from next April to commence in August.

A huge thank you once again for your generous support of our group, you really are amazing and making such a massive difference to our community at so many levels.

Pictured, Our amazing volunteers: John, Chloe, Jill, Joan (G), Joan (S) and not pictured Colin and Frank.

Looking forward to seeing you.

FOMD

Together Making Maghull a better place to live.

More information about this and other projects at: www.fomd.co.uk

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