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.)