Crocus Planting for

Glossop Rotary with the help of scouts groups, Dinting Explorers, 1st Hadfield, 2nd Glossop & 3rd Glossop today planted 4000 purple crocuses in a large Rotary wheel in Harehills Park (the Sandhole) to promote support for Polio eradication.


Rotary members in Glossop Rotary Club are marking progress toward a polio-free world while helping to end the paralysing disease

Our members are taking action in honour of World Polio Day to raise awareness, funds, and support to end polio, a vaccine-preventable disease that still threatens children in parts of the world today including Gaza. 

Foundation chair, Geoff Bain, said “We hope that our contribution towards Polio eradication when combined with the efforts of the 46,000 clubs throughout the World will make a significant contribution to its removal.”

Polio anywhere is a threat everywhere, and Rotary members from Glossop have long worked to end the paralyzing virus, which will be only the second human disease ever to be eradicated.

Rotary has contributed more than £2.1 billion to fight polio and countless volunteer hours since launching its PolioPlus program in 1985. In 1988, Rotary joined in partnership with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to form the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The Gates Foundation and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, later joined. When the initiative launched, there were 350,000 cases of polio every year. Today, the incidence of polio has plummeted by more than 99.9%.

To sustain this progress and continue to reach every child with the polio vaccine, Rotary has committed to raising £38 million each year to support global polio eradication efforts.

The Gates Foundation has pledged to match this amount 2-to-1 for a total yearly contribution of £114 million. 

Visit Rotary.org and endpolio.org for more about Rotary and its efforts to eradicate polio.

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Newly acquired defibrillator

Glossop Rotary Club has made a small contribution towards the new defibrillator installation at the Pilates Studio in Glossop

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Winnie Mabaso and Lisa Ashton MBE Founder and CEO of the Foundation

We have donated £2,000 to this amazing charity chaired Lisa Ashton MBE

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Medecines San Frontieres reaches out in Beirut

A donation of £400 has been sent to Medecines San Frontieres for their relief work in Beirut

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Community Service Chair. Alan Conchie presenting Daniel Barton with our donation.

Community Service Chair. Alan Conchie presenting Daniel Barton with our donation.

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Lisa Ashton MBE receives the cheque from President Alan

A cheque for £2,000 was awarded to the charity from the monies from the Glossop Jog 2023

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Breakdown of the monies raised and expended in 2023 to 2024

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Recipents: Alison, Hadfield Infants; Sandra, Henry Street Harriers; President Gill; Leanne, St Philip Howard Catholic Voluntary Academy

Local schools and organisations fund raising recognition and trophies

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Novelty Pig Racing event to raise funds for the Rotary Foundation and Polio eradication

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Karen Rigg(Rotary), Jacob Meaton(DOSportUK), Jill Bedford(Tom’s mother), Gill Redfern(Vice-President, Rotary)

£500 was donated to this deserving organisation which arranges sports activities for disabled members

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President Gill and Charlotte Mendes-Kelly of the Glossopdale Food Bank

Donation of £202 To Charlotte Mendes-Kelly

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The Team

President Alan handed a cheque to GMR following our recent fund raising

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The Hubble Telescope

"End Polio Now" has received a welcome boost from donations from other Rotary Clubs who have booked our own member, Tony Bell, to speak on the Hubble telescope.

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President Derek handing the cheque for £3,000 to Pam Joyce of Disaster Aid UK&I

Glossop RC collection for the disaster over 4 days at Aldi and M&S

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from left: Gill Redfern of Glossop Rotary Club delivering the PPE for St. Christophers Trust and Blythe House Hospice

LtoR: Gill Redfern of Glossop Rotary Club delivering the PPE for St. Christopher's Trust and Blythe House Hospice

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Presidents Choice - Austin A12 (1929)

Joint event with the High Peak Classic Car Group

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Pam Joyce of Disaster Aid UK receives a cheque for £2,700, the proceeds of our collections, personal donations and club donations.

Pam Joyce of Disaster Aid UK receives a cheque for £2,700 from President Gill. This was the proceeds of our collections, personal donations and our club donation.

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concert and local organisations beneficiaries

Some of the beneficiaries and sponsorship for the concert

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The final Collection of shoes

Glossop Rotary Club have collected over 360 pairs of shoes towards our District Shoe Aid campaign.

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Two Pakistan Appeals

We have donated £1,000 to Disaster Aid UK & Ireland and £1,000 to The Rotary Disaster Recovery Trust

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Technology Group

Delivering essential supplies across a crocodile infested river for Shelterbox

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Inter school garden competition for Primary and Junior Schools

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Glossop Rotary hosted the District 1285 meal pack event on Sunday April 14th

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Members of the Pan disability team

This year's award was made at "The Place" at Glossodale School.

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Presented by Dr Eamonn Kerins of Manchester University for our local schools

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Our club was founded in Glossop in 1938.

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Do YOU know your own Blood Pressure?

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Glossop Rotary Club together Glossop Inner Wheel joined Warrington Rotary Club's "Stop Hunger Now" initiative to help provide 100,000 meals to Nairobi.

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Glossop Jog 2021

The new course distance is approx. 0.4 mile

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