Thank You to all the amazing volunteers last Saturday (22.3.25) and throughout the week, at Rowlands Dell with yet another brilliant outcome in which we were able to:

  • Litter picked and emptied three bins.
  • Moved three tons of topsoil into wooden growing frames and mainly around the new £2,300 Tree Council Grant funded Yew tree hedge with considerable amazing support from Paul Pruden (Horticultural Manager) and his Mersey Care horticultural team (Dave, Steve, Phil), utilising £168 from our donated funds
  • Used the final woodchip kindly donated from Paul and Harry Richards Tree Services to spread around the Yew tree hedge.
  • Watered 225 Yew trees.
  • Gratefully transplanted countless huge stunning shrub and fruit tree donations from local residents – Gemma, Jean, Wally, Marion, Jill, Hayley, and Alison.
  • 400 m² grass area has been sown and sectioned off for the next three weeks for germination and growth, utilising £165 from our donated funds.

It was another great team effort by our volunteers. A massive thank you to: John (W), Joanne, Dave, John (L), Diane, Graeme (pictured) and Colin and Frank (not pictured), and are amazing Jill who worked solo during the week.

A Special thank you to The Mersey Care Horticultural Team (Phil, Steve, Dave – pictured and Paul – not pictured) for their invaluable work moving almost 3 tons of topsoil and raking and sowing 400 m² of grass seeds around the picnic area and the slope below.

Final thanks to everyone on here or Dell visitors who have been incredibly and motivationally complimentary or have simply enjoyed this new beauty spot at the heart of our community.

Best Wishes,

FOMD

Together making Maghull a better place to live.

Background.

This beautiful haven for wildlife has unbelievably been treated as an open tip for decades, where every inch has revealed a variety of pollutants harmful to wildlife. In our three-stage plan, stage I has resulted in Maghull’s biggest ever 46-week cleanup in which FOMD have removed 266 bin bags of litter and 25 tons of debris. In the two months of Stage II, that was completed in November, with our NHS landowner partners (expertly installed by subcontractors – PR England Landscapers) using a health and wellness grant fund (representing Maghull’s largest green investment) have installed an amazing legacy array of hard landscaping installations to provide accessibility for the whole community (accessible path, viewing/picnic area, sunken garden, bins, 10,000 bulbs and planting at small junction points, bug and bird boxes, and a dry waterfall feature). We are now engaging in stage three to repopulate Rowlands Dell with woodland planting and need your help.

More information at www.fomd.co.uk including: (1) Events tab for everything about the meeting and (2) Projects tab for the project background.

More information. www.fomd.co.uk

Contact: admin@fomd.co.uk

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