Thank you to Sarah Pollard (local Saxon Tree Services) who kindly supplied a load of woodchip (13.8.24) and is a regular volunteer and our other amazing Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD) volunteers who spread the woodchip during the week (14.8.24 at 07.30hrs!). Whilst last Saturday they made some wonderful progress removing ground ivy to access five bin bags of embedded litter and even more debris, from the final North Slope and West area of Rowlands Dell. In addition, to transporting several carloads of rubbish and rubble to the recycling centre and watering donated plants in the holding area.

Next Up – Can you spare one hour, without any commitment, on Saturday (24.8.24) meeting at 10.00 in the 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), along the worst west section and removing bramble regrowth at the top 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.
• For the bramble removal just a spade.

Pictured: (1) FOMD volunteers: Diane (H), Diane, Rob, Christina, Ken, Carl (pictured) and Colin (not pictured). (2) Saxon Tree specialists: Sarah Pollard. Also a big thank you to Jill who did some further fantastic solo clearance work during the week.

Overall, our one-hour sessions over the last 42 consecutive weeks have resulted in collecting 248 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.

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.

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

Saxon Tree Services.

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https://www.saxontrees.co.uk/

Tel No: 07722432313

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