Add a bloom to your fundraising

Wear a Crocus and help Rotary to

End Polio Now

These fabric crocuses offer Zone 17 the opportunity to energise our End Polio Now Campaign with a fresh, exciting and very effective fundraising and awareness building tool. It’s also an opportunity for us to lead in Rotary, spearheading their roll out.

To find out more about this exciting opportunity, please contact:

Mike ParryRI End Polio Now Coordinator 2012-13Zone 17

Tel: 02920 568847Email: mjparry111@hotmail.com

Fabric crocuses help raise funds and awarenessMembers of the public make a donation and receive a fabric crocus in return to support the End Polio Now Campaign.

How the crocuses can be used?

The crocuses have been trialled by Rotarians in District 1120 and have proved a runaway success. Now we can replicate that story across RIBI.

This is a great opportunity to energise our End Polio Now Campaign with a fresh, exciting and very effective fundraising and awareness building tool. Rotarians in the RIBI chose the crocuses to symbolise the End Polio Now Campaign as their purple colour matched the dye painted on the fingers of children who had been immunised against Polio.

Initially they planted hundreds of thousands of real crocuses as an annual reminder of the Campaign. Then, one visionary District Governor, Lynn Mitchell of District 1120 wanted to take the idea a stage further and develop a beautiful fabric crocus which could be worn by donors. The crocus was trialled in Lynn’s District this year, proved a runaway success and is now being rolled out nationally.

Using fabric flowers toraise funds and awareness for charities is long established and highly successful. Tens of millions of fabric flowers are distributed each year raising tens of millions of £’s for good causes.

Raising Funds

In the UK, the End Polio Now Crocus Campaign has proved to be a major fundraising success:

• The average donation per crocus is £1.

• Over £500 was raised in just 2 hours outside one local hospital.

Raising Awareness

Aswell as raising funds the crocuses are fantastic at raising awareness. The crocuses are so beautiful they become walking adverts, triggering countless conversations about Rotary and the End Polio Now Campaign. The impact is long lasting as they are often worn as clothing accessories, sparking more and more conversations about Rotary’s work.

Friends and Family:

Ask them to make donation, wear a crocus and tell everyone who asks about how Rotary is so close to eradicating Polio.

Static Collection Box:

This is your silent fundraiser. Each box holds 50 crocuses. It’s ideal for locations such as doctor’s surgeries, pharmacies, hospital receptions, businesses of Rotarians, shops, school receptions, bars and clubs. The boxes are small enough to place on a counter and simply leave there for a few weeks. People will help themselves to a crocus and make a donation. Typically 60% of funds are raised with this type of a collection box.

Street Collection Box:

Ideal for collections outside supermarkets, shopping centres, hospitals. Each box holds 100 crocuses and comes with a neck strap and integral money box.

Fundraising in Schools:

Crocuses are perfect for school children to use to fundraise and each school can raise hundreds of £’s.

Enhance all your Existing Fundraising Events:

These crocuses and display boxes provide another fundraising and awareness building tool at all your existing events – at fairs, concerts, meetings, cake sales, fun runs.

They have been:

• Worn by all the delegates at District 1150’s Peace Conference as well as the RIBI National Conference.

• Gifts on overseas missions to the Philippines, Canada and Romania. • Worn by musicians and audience at a local swing band concert.

• Worn by the managing director of the company who makes the crocuses during his 110km run through the Sahara desert which raised £1,100 for the End Polio Now Campaign.

Wear a Crocus and help Rotary to End Polio Now Wear a Crocus and help Rotary to End Polio Now