On Sunday (7.7.24), a few Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) volunteers braved the torrential rain, to spread a mountain of donated woodchip (courtesy of Paul Richards – local community orientated tree surgeon). Unbelievably, the work was completed in one hour and will temporarily suppress the weeds and improve the bio hydrating humus following their previous removal alongside mountains of polluting debris and litter. A huge thank you to Peter, Ros, and Frank for all their hard work for this hugely beneficial community environmental project.

Next Up – Can you spare one hour, without any commitment, on Saturday (13.7.24) 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 36 consecutive weeks have resulted in collecting 230 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.

Pictured: Peter and Ros and Frank (not pictured).

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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