Despite the fact that many of our regular Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) team were unavailable to attend last Saturday, we were amazed how many people were able to attend, despite the biting wind. They worked incredibly hard and cheerfully to rake out the implanted surface debris and litter from the cleared flailed top slope, following 30 years of profound neglect, at our 19th consecutive one-hour weekly session, last Saturday (9.3.24), at the Dell (adjacent to the Hare & Hounds Pub).

 Weekly Achievement.

• Raked out eight bin bags of litter and countless rubble debris, which we transported to the recycling centre.
• Chris (R) Litter picked the car park before we arrived.

Please Help.  We are returning this Saturday (16.3.24) at 10.00hrs and still need your support, to remove ground Ivy and litter slightly hidden under the surface, before the growing season starts again.

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)
• 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.
• Main Focus: If you would like to litter pick and remove debris, please bring litter picker, garden fork, rigid rake (essential) to remove some of the embedded litter.
• If you’d like to trim the Ivy hedge, please bring hedge cutter, tree loppers.

Pictured, our amazing volunteers: Joanne, Joan (G), Joan (S), Dee, Ken (amazing hands-on Maghull Mayor), Chris (B), Chris (R) and Frank (not pictured).

Overall, our one-hour sessions over the last 19 consecutive weeks have resulted in collecting 146 bin bags of litter, a huge array of debris and 24 (even more not bagged!) agricultural bags 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 planting which has been delayed from next April to commence in August.

A huge thank you once again for your kind support of our group, you really are amazing and making such a massive difference to our community at so many levels.

Looking forward to seeing you.

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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