For those who struggle to attend at other times. Can you spare one hour, without any commitment, on Monday (3.6.24) meeting at 19.30 hours, 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.

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.

 Main Tasks.

• Focusing on 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 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 rake (essential) not a lawn rake, secateurs and spade 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.

Weekly Achievements & Thanks (1.6.24).

North Slope: continued raking and removing debris from a few metres of the descending 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.

West Section has the worst neglected area for close to the surface debris, collecting more binbags of litter. Unbelievably, every inch reveals even more historic litter/debris e.g. plastic, bottles, cans, mattresses, carpets, rubble, historic bin bags of rubbish etc.

• Strimming: a huge thank you to Sarah (Saxon Tree Services) for donating one hour to strim the nettles in preparation for the children’s big litter pick on Monday.

• Topsoil and Rockery Donations: following the unexpected donations of rockery, topsoil and transportation last week, we configured the rocks and purchased and planted a beautiful rate of small plants to make a small welcoming rockery area,

South Slope: waiting for more donated woodchip, but in the meantime the donated and installed water but has been invaluable in watering in new rockery plants and donated trees and shrubs.

Overall, our one-hour sessions over the last 32 consecutive weeks have resulted in collecting 217 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.

This preparation is for Stage Two involving future green landscaping and a large planting programme which has been delayed from 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. This

Pictured: Christine, Diane, Joanne, Ken, Joan, Sarah, and not pictured – Colin, Frank (and Ulrike who planted the rockery on Sunday).

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

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Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk

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Saxon Tree Services Contact:

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New rockery installation (2.6.24) from your free grateful donations.

Litter from last session, not including mountains of debris

Before Rockery 2023

Foreground West area nettles strimmed in preparation for children’s litter picking event. Middle vegetation area for wildlife sanctuary. North Slope in the distance – debris clearance nearly complete.