On Saturday (20.7.24), the Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) volunteers continued with the green restoration work at Rowlands Dell.

Thank You to the amazing volunteers for undertaking the following work made more challenging by the humidity:

• North Slope: the whole area was cut with a lawnmower following regrowth to enable continued access to the underlying polluting debris and litter, through raking.
• 3 bin bags of rubbish were transported to the tip.
• More Rubble debris was transported to the tip in two carloads,
• More Rubble debris was transported to the tip in two carloads whist the sandstone rocks were recycled for an on-site  rockery.
• Regrowth of tenacious damaging ground Ivy was removed.
• An extra thank you to Colin for all the digitalis donations.

Pictured: A huge thank you to Diane & Rob, Christina, Diane (H), Joan, Carl and not pictured Colin.

Next Up – Can you spare one hour, without any commitment, on Saturday (27.7.24) meeting at 09.00 in this 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 and continuing along the worst west section.

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 38 consecutive weeks have resulted in collecting 237 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. We would also like to take the opportunity to thank all the local businesses who contributed prizes for our annual month-long raffle which raised £790 for our essential running costs and invaluable project start-up costs.

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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