Another great turnout by President Sylvia, the club members, the Bantock Users Group and children from Uplands and Merridale schools as the Rotary Club of The City of Wolverhampton  planted another 4000 crocus corms in Bantock Park in support of the Rotary EndPolio campaign. It was a great pleasure also to welcome along the Mayor of Wolverhampton, Councillor Sandra Samuels OBE. Her cheerful, enthusiastic support made the children  –  and us – very happy.

Over the years, we’ve now planted 50,000 purple crocus and we’ll keep going every autumn until the scourge of polio is eliminated form the world.

Foundation Committee chair Richard Green was highly amused when 2 passers by, seeing all the yellow tabards, asked “‘what are those convicts doing wth the Mayor and those children?” At least it gave him an easy opportunity to tell them all about this world changing campaign by Rotary International!

(Consent to photograph the children obtained.)

Our Christmas tree of remembrance this year kicked off at the Wolverhampton Grammar School (WGS) on Wednesday 18th October with senior school students putting 750 donor support letters in windowed envelopes. A big thank you to all the students and staff at WGS who gave up part of their lunch break to help support our project.

The tree will arrive in the Wulfrun Centre on Saturday 19th November and will be launched by the Mayor of Wolverhampton Sandra Samuels OBE at 1.00pm. The tree will remain there for 6 weeks.

Our thanks to WGSstaff for their help and for showing the students how they can make a difference to their local community. What a wonderful experience for Rotary working in the community together with young people who care.

The charities benefiting from the Tree of Remembrance this year are The MS Therapy Centre, The Haven, Compton Care and the Rotary Charitable Trust.

We give special recognition and thanks to our main sponsors this year who are Millers Jewellers, The Express and Star, Peter Posh Menswear, FBC Manby Bowdler (Solicitors), The James Beattie Charitable Trust, Treadsetters tyres of Halesfield,Sandford Carpets & Curtains of Wolverhamptonand the Wulfrun Centre.

Well done and thank you all.
President of the City of Wolverhampton Rotary Club
Sylvia Morgan.