On Saturday (13.7.24), old and new Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) volunteers continued with the green restoration work at Rowlands Dell.

Remarkably, the following work was undertaken:

• North Slope: the whole area was cut with a lawnmower following regrowth to enable continued access to the underlying polluting debris and litter.
• 16 bin bags of rubbish was transported to the tip in one car load, including two extra bin bags collected on the day.
• Rubble debris was transported to the tip in two carloads.
• Regrowth of damaging tree Ivy was removed.
• Following four fantastic en masse sessions by the Scouts and HMRC staff we had multiple mounds of vegetation and rubble which required considerable work to relocate it all to two central pickup points for future removal. Courtesy of outstanding hard work from our new volunteers Rob and Dianne.

Pictured: A huge thank you to Christine, Dave, Diane (pictured with the North Slope in the background) and Colin, Rob, Diane and Frank (not pictured). Thanks also to Ross and Jill who undertook one hour clearing debris and vegetation in the west area in a mid-week session (10.7.24) they brilliantly organised.

Next Up – Can you spare one hour, without any commitment, on Saturday (20.7.24) meeting at 09.30 in Rowlands Dell (adjacent to the Hare & Hounds Pub). This beautiful haven for wildlife has been treated as an open tip for decades, where every inch is revealing a variety of pollutants harmful to wildlife. We hope to remove all the debris this summer and commence a huge programme of planting and rewilding in Autumn, that will be healthy for wildlife and humans, whilst ultimately preventing building on yet another perceived neglected green space.

 Main Tasks.

• We will continue raking out the huge amounts of harmful to wildlife debris that has accumulated from over 30 years of sad neglect (eg vegetation, rubble and litter), down the final part of the north slope.

Equipment. All you will need are:

Sturdy boots, garden gloves (essentials)

• Ground ivy and debris removal: please bring litter picker, garden fork, rigid soil 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 37 consecutive weeks have resulted in collecting 234 bin bags of litter, a huge and shameful array of polluting debris and tons 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.

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. We would also like to take the opportunity to thank you so much for your contributions to our annual month-long raffle which was drawn last Monday and raised £790 for our essential running costs and invaluable project start-up costs.

Looking forward to seeing you.

Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD)

Together Making Maghull a better place to live.

More information and for any last-minute changes please check ‘Events’ at: www.fomd.co.uk

Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk

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