On Friday (14.6.24), this small group of kind, friendly and caring HMRC volunteers in three hours of ‘taxing’ weather conditions somehow found ‘20%’ more extra energy, to continue the previous fantastic work undertaken earlier in the week by the 12^th Maghull Scout group and the Friends of Maghull & District volunteers, to extend the debris removal from the West polluted section of Rowlands Dell.

We are enormously grateful to Louise, Kim and Graeme, two of whom travelled from their homes in Wigan and Wavertree to generously help our community as part of their workplaces social value practice. Whilst I planted some donated ferns (courtesy of Jill) in a holding area and broke up some ground Ivy in the North Slope to remove future debris.

Next Up – Can you spare one hour, without any commitment, on Saturday (22.6.24) meeting at 10.00 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.

• 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 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 34 consecutive weeks have resulted in collecting 223 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: Louise, Kim, Graham and not pictured Frank.

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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