Great Community Boost for Green Centre Improvements: can you help?

11 May @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

| Free

Can you spare one hour, without any commitment, on Saturday (11.5.24) meeting at 10.00 hours, in Rowlands Dell (adjacent to the Hare & Hounds Pub).

 Main Tasks.

  • Focusing on raking out the huge amounts of harmful to wildlife debris that has accumulated from over 30 years of neglect (eg vegetation, rubble and litter), down the north slope.
  • Spreading donated woodchip on the cleared south slope, to re-establish the tree hydrating humus layer, and temporarily suppress dominant weeds, prior to a large woodland planting programme at the end of the year.

Weekly Achievements & Thanks.

  • Last Saturday (4.5.24) with the immensely kind support of Paul and Harry Richards (Tree Surgeons) our volunteers worked tirelessly to load two large heaps of cleared vegetation. Paul also generously paid for the recycling centre fee. Incredibly, they also dropped off three large loads of woodchip for the south slope (8.5.24), some of which has been raked into place.
  • Completed raking and removing debris from the top of the north slope, resulting in more bin bags of rubbish and a new mountain of rubble debris and vegetation, with several journeys to the recycling centre (8.5.24).
  • Paul Pruden (Head Horticultural Manager) and his fantastic Mersey Care NHS Trust team donated one hour (8.5.24) brush cutting the West section to expose the worst neglected area for close to the surface debris, for the volunteers to remove in future weeks. Unbelievably, every inch reveals even more historic litter/debris e.g. plastic, bottles, cans, mattresses, carpets, rubble etc

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)

  • Ground ivy and debris removal: 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.

 Overall, our one-hour sessions over the last 28 consecutive weeks have resulted in collecting 200 bin bags of litter, a huge array of debris and 34 agricultural bags (plus an additional 5 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 a large planting programme 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: Harry & Paul Richards, Diane, Ken, Joan (S), Joan (G) (pictured), Christine and Frank (not pictured)

We hope you make it, as many of our volunteers are not available at the moment.

Looking forward to seeing you.

Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD)

Together Making Maghull a better place to live.

 

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

(website created by www.abbeytech.net/)

Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk

#fomdcic #Maghull #Environment

Further details about Paul Richards Tree Services:

Contact Paul Richards:

07455115790

07846455697

https://richardstreeservicesnorthwest.co.uk

Harry, Paul and Ken before loading the top heap of debris.

Harry, Paul, Diane, Ken, Joan (S), Joan (G) pictured and Christine and Frank not pictured.

Loading the bottom heap of debris

Paul and Harry proudly showing the Sefton 4 Good Award, after dumping their first load of woodchip in the lower South slope.

Thanks to all the volunteers who spread the woodchip in the lower South slope

Huge thanks to Phil, Steve, Dave (pictured) and Paul not pictured, after their one hour of brush cutting the lower west section. Earlier this year they altruistically spent one morning flailing most of the site.

The West section after the brush cutting, enabling our volunteers in the future to remove debris from the worst section.

Paul and Harry’s third woodchip donation dumped at the top of the North slope.

A new debris heap at the top of the North Slope.

The newly cleared top section of the North Slope, which will be the site of the medical centres sunken garden, picnic viewing area and a new wildlife/copse area..