Planting Crocus Corms for Polio Plus

Spring each year sees a beautiful purple carpet of crocus blooming in many communities across Great Britain and Ireland thanks to the Purple Crocus Corm planting to raise awareness of the Rotary fight for a polio free world.

Our Club has given generously to Polio Plus in the past, including a public collection at a Cliff Richard concert, and we continue to contribute through the annual Purple Crocus Appeal.  

This year - 2022 - our Club has planted 3,000 crocus corms at Hillhead Primary School. The children's classes came out one-by-one to hear about the Rotary project to eradicate polio, and they helped with the planting. 

Rotary Foundation can proudly claim to be the driving force behind the campaign to eradicate polio worldwide.  The programme has raised more than $1 billion since it was launched in 1985.  More than 2.5 billion children in 122 countries have been imunised and the programme has been so successful that there are now just a few cases each year in only two countries: Afghanistan and Pakistan. 
The drive for total elimination continues!

Our Club has given generously in the past, including a public collection at a Cliff Richard concert, and we continue to contribute through the annual Purple Crocus Appeal.