We Need Your Help in a Race against Time.

Can you spare one hour, without any commitment, on Saturday (30.3.24) meeting at 10:00 hours, in the Dell (adjacent to the Hare & Hounds Pub)  simply to rake a large area, to unearth and remove decades of neglect. We have removed an unbelievable amount of debris already, but having recently removed large areas of ground Ivy, the serious debris is now just beneath the surface. Which we want to remove before the spring growth returns, to enable us to re-establish a safe and environmentally friendly haven for the good of the community, nature and wildlife.

Weekly Achievements & Thanks.

• South Dell section: completely brush cut and raked out 10 bin bags of litter and lots more rubble debris, that we transported to the recycling centre, and to our disbelief completed this section.
• West Dell section: started brush cutting, raking Ivy, litter and debris near the entrance, to enable a new noticeboard to be installed soon.
• Kindly and gratefully received a cluster of delphiniums from local neighbours Anne and Jerry, that we could not plant at the Dell yet, so we separated them into 42 plants and planted them within FOMD’s Stafford Moreton Way left hand side wild flower border.

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) not lawn rake, 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: Jill & John (not pictured Clare, Colin and Frank) on Friday (22.3.24). Frank popped back briefly on Saturday and Sunday (brush cutting, raking and removing debris from the final south section and started the West section), which Jill kindly sorted and bagged on Sunday, and dispatched to the recycling centre on Monday. 42 Delphiniums planted on Tuesday.

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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