The 12^th Maghull Scout group joined the Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) volunteers for an evening session last night (03.06.23) giving the Rowlands Dell green restoration project a fantastic boost, during which they discovered an unusual array and amount of rubbish embedded in the ground from decades ago. Many thanks to every one of them and for their previous help in 2021 when they created Maghull’s best ongoing daffodil display by planting 3000 bulbs at our ongoing Woodend project (see main home page picture at www.fomd.co.uk).

Next Up – Can you spare one hour, without any commitment, on Saturday (8.6.24) meeting at 10.00 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.

 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 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.

Weekly Achievements & Thanks (03.6.24).

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.

• The amazing 12th Maghull Scout Group revisited the starting clearance point of the West section, which despite being cleared earlier there raking has revealed further litter and debris, including bottles cans glasses, knife, scissors and much more!

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.

Overall, our one-hour sessions over the last 32 consecutive weeks have resulted in collecting 218 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.

Pictured: The 12^th Maghull Scout Group, Ian (Scout leader and FOMD Co Director), Carl, Jill, Graeme, and not pictured Ros and Frank.

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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Pictured: The 12th Maghull Scout Group, Ian (Scout leader and FOMD Co Director), Carl, Jill, Graeme, and not pictured Ros and Frank. (3.6.24)

Final clearance of the north slope

The amazing Scouts cleared this section of the West part of the Dell

A small sample of the debris removed by the Scouts