1,050 Trees for Maghull and More to Come!!
The Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) have planted 16,000 trees since 2021 in parks, schools, roads and are now delighted to have secured 1050 woodland and hedge trees for Maghull’s biggest green centre renovation at Rowlands Dell (next to the Medical Centre) to be delivered in February 2025 from The Conservation Volunteers (TCV). This will create a wildlife friendly, pollution reducing 141m hawthorn hedge (450 trees) and woodland (600 trees) comprising of Common Oak, Green Beach, Birch, Alder, Hornbeam, Rowan, Field Maple, Hazel.
Please Register ASAP to Help.
FOMD is only a small group, and our success has been achieved by bringing the community together. Consequently, we need everyone to register their interest for a massive tree planting program later in the year by sending your contact details to admin@fomd.co.uk so we can get in touch with drop in planting dates between December and March. Please help our community to continue making a difference to our environment and do our bit for climate change.
Rowlands Dell Background.
Rowlands Dell is an historic quarry that has become a beautiful haven for nature but has become overgrown and treated like an open tip for 30 years. Which has made it harmful to humans and wildlife alike, whilst its neglect was a potential magnet for developers in our town where every green space is a target for building. Consequently, following three years of planning a three-stage plan was established by the Friends of Maghull and District (FOMD) and NHS partners and landowners.
Stage I, resulted in dedicated FOMD volunteers undertaking 46 consecutive weekly sessions to remove 266 bin bags of rubbish and 25 tons of debris which was tenaciously locked in by beautiful yet dominant invasive and destructive Ivy.
Stage II, has remarkably involved our NHS partners successfully obtaining an £80,000 health and wellness fund never used in the north-west before and a successful £8000 Morrisons grant application undertaken by FOMD and partners TCV which was a highly competitive national 125th anniversary fund. Consequently, the NHS partners – Groundworks commissioned their landscape architect design plans, obtain planning permission, identified Richard England landscapers through a tendering process. The landscapers have temporarily closed the site for two months for insurance purposes and commenced the eight weeks of work on the 17.9.24, involving hard and soft landscaping.
Stage III: will involve further fundraising to repopulate Rowlands Dell with further woodland trees, shrubs, planting to enhance biodiversity within this natural haven.
Huge thanks,
FOMD
Together Making Maghull a better place to live.
More information. www.fomd.co.uk
Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk