After an unprecedented year removing 266 bin bags of rubbish and 25 tons of debris from the ongoing renovation of the beautiful Rowlands Dell and attracting an £80,000 Green investment at the centre of Maghull, where sadly it has been treated as an open tip for 30 years, we wanted to pause to say a huge thank you to our amazing community who have supported the Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD).
To our surprise and delight Cllr Ken Hughes (Mayor of Maghull and super community volunteer) very kindly and generously organised an informal get-together in the Town Hall on 25.10.24), to celebrate FOMD’s remarkable community achievements not only at Rowlands Dell but countless other places throughout Maghull. It was a lovely night to catch up without any gardening gear (didn’t recognise anyone!), with a couple of speeches, music, slideshow, delicious food courtesy of Dorina Peddie (Mayor’s Consort). We were delighted to be joined by the very supportive Cllr Chloe Parker (MTC leader) and Matthew Locks parents (Christine and Richard) as Matthew always helped out enthusiastically and cheerfully whenever he could.
The room could have been filled four times over with the amount of people who had kindly given their free time in so many different and invaluable ways whilst most are already helping so many other good causes. It has been an immense privilege to meet such incredibly warm, friendly, good-humoured and kind people in our community who simply want to make Maghull a better place to live.
Rowlands Dell, is currently benefiting from an amazing £80,000 health and wellness environmental grant secured with our NHS landowner partners which is being utilised between September and November, to create just outside the Dell a picnic and viewing area, a sunken garden and within the Dell a circular path accessible for disability, and a water feature. On completion, we hope to recommence the volunteer work by repopulating the whole site with a huge array of woodland planting to establish a restorative natural haven for people and wildlife.
Our other sessions throughout the year have involved revisiting the multiple green spaces we have transformed throughout Maghull and maintained every one of the 16,000 trees we have planted throughout the town to maximise their potential, alongside many other community and social improvements, which can be seen on our website www.fomd.co.uk.
A heartfelt thank you to all the friends of Maghull who attended the celebration and the many precious others who have helped along the way. We are so lucky when you think of the long-term work and achievements undertaken by other uplifting groups – The Maghull Station Volunteers and Maghull in Bloom and the countless others!
In the meantime, we are only a small group who galvanise the community and we do need an army of volunteers to help with a massive tree planting program on a few occasions between December and March!
Massive FOMD Tree Planting Program Planned in Maghull later in the year. Please register your interest to help planting, 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.
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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