GOALS Fundraising goal $55 raised per Rotarian Advocacy contact all levels of politicians locally Rotary/polio link keep telling the Rotary Polio Story Rotary made a promise in 1985 to free the world of the life threatening and disabling poliovirus. In the words of Rotarian and polio survivor Carl Chinnery “Our mission is clear, eradicate polio”. The ideas that we will be promoting for clubs to consider getting involved with in 2019/20 are set out below. They are designed to meet one or more of the goals above and to involve and inspire all Rotarians and our local communities. Involve everyone in your club and district including youth, community, international, membership and public image. Consider working with other Rotary clubs in your local area. A lot of clubs are already maximising the opportunities from using the Rotary Polio Story to attract interest from potential new Rotarians and supporters including companies as well as re-energising their own club members. Think out of the box on who you can involve and how you can excite them to play their part in making history. Electronic materials for all of these initiatives will be created for your use and where hard copies are needed suitable files will be available for you to get printed locally. Purple4Polio - Registering of all polio activities and Map - Working with the Purple4Polio theme in these and any other polio activities clubs undertake helps widen the exposure consistently across all media. Please complete the online form to register all your polio activities https://www.snapsurveys.com/wh/s.asp?k=154403267403 so we can add them to the Map of Polio Activities now published on the RotaryGBI.org website https://www.rotarygbi.org/projects/purple4polio/

Main suggested activities 1. Purple Crocus Corms

a. The 18/19 and 19/20 Teams need to work together to ensure orders are placed as soon as possible for planting activities in Autumn 2019

b. Expand who you work with such as schools, gardening groups, community clubs etc. by also engaging with local parks, gardens, National Trust properties, country estates, visitor attractions, arboretums, garden centres and similar to explore how they can get involved

c. When the crocus bloom each Spring promote the Rotary Polio Story and Rotary generally with signage, media releases and activities

2. Pandemic Conference a. Around World Polio Day 24th October a new

opportunity will be launched with a ‘Pandemic’ Conference aimed at secondary school age participants taking place in Cardiff. As part of the day the Rotary Polio Story will be brought to life and a call to action given to the attendees. The main focus of the Conference will be about pandemic outbreaks generally. This will be a fun and interactive day with many learning outcomes meeting curriculum requirements

b. There will be several Regional ‘Pandemic’ Conferences later in 19/20 Rotary year

c. In the plans for 20/21 the content of these Conferences will be broadened to cover preventable health matters where Rotary can make a difference in our communities. Materials will be available in 20/21 for clubs / groups of clubs to organise Conferences in your local communities

3. Purple4Polio Lighting and Crocus Corm planting World Polio Day 24th Oct 2019

a. Building on the successful Purple Lighting on World Polio Day 2018 detailed suggestions and materials will be available to help you bathe those same buildings with Purple Light again and to find lots of new opportunities. Consider the lighting to cover Friday 18th to Sunday 27th October

b. Invite your local community to get involved by having a Purple Light in a window at home

c. Get your whole community involved across all ages, religions, cultural groups etc.

d. Consider a multi-faith service with the Rotary Polio Story being the focus and the collection going to End Polio Now

e. Consider tying in the planting of the Purple crocus corms with the Purple Lighting

f. Put on local awareness activities at this time for both the Rotary Polio Story and your club’s other work in the local community and abroad, volunteering opportunities etc.

Rotary Year 2019 20 Planned activities to help End Polio Now Suggestions / questions to Jannine Birtwistle pauljannine@icloud.com or Donna Wallbank rotary@donnawallbank.co.uk

g. Announce your ‘Get Moving to End Polio’ plans (see Item 4)

4. Get Moving to End Polio a. Sponsored activity linked to the length of the

Afghanistan/Pakistan border (1240 miles so focus on the number 1240 in any way), the only 2 countries with wild poliovirus cases in 2017 and 2018

b. All ages and abilities can participate with any and all activities being included such as running, swimming, rowing, wheelchair basketball, dancing, yoga, knitting, walking, etc. etc.

c. Less physical activities such as knitting could also be linked to needs in the local community such as sewing knitted squares together to make blankets

d. Can be an individual challenge or groups of people working together

e. Announce your plans on World Polio Day with activities running any time you choose between World Polio Day and ending on the last day of Volunteer Expo 2020 3rd May 2020

f. There will be 72 hr Get Moving to End Polio challenge happening at Volunteer Expo 2020 to conclude this fundraising initiative

5. Fill Your Plate for Polio - 2 weeks before and after Rotary Day 23rd Feb 2020 a. This initiative was launched in February 2019 and

is an annual drive around Rotary Day to raise awareness and funds for End Polio Now

b. Make one of your club meetings around that date a Fill Your Plate for Polio event

c. Consider using Purple4Polio Ice Cream for this and for any other activities you are involved with including summer fetes etc.

d. Any type of food or drink can be used such as barbecue, Purple Ball, pie and mash, prosecco and blueberries or why not have a frugal meal

e. Involve your local communities in organising their own event in a ‘pyramid’ style

f. This annual initiative has the full support of the World’s Greatest Meal’s (WGM) organisers, Susanne Rea and Mukesh Malhotra. All events and the total monies raised for Fill Your Plate for Polio are reported by RotaryGBI to the WGM team so just register your event/s through the online form for RotaryGBI polio activities

Other suggested activities A. Rotary Polio Bear

i. Name The Bear ii. Bear Picnics iii. Bear Trail iv. Bear Travels v. Bear Zip Line/Parachute jumps

B. Crocus Buttonholes i. Tell your District Foundation Chairman how many

boxes of 100 Buttonholes you want as we need orders of 30,000 to be able to get the next batch manufactured. There is a 4 month lead time for them to arrive in the UK

ii. Place Buttonholes in local shops and businesses iii. Buttonholes are a simple fund raising tool at

public events C. Why I Care?

i. An electronic notice board for people’s answers ii. A chance to remind ourselves and others why

Rotary and our partners need to finish the job iii. Continue Breathe screenings. You must email

Jannine (see header) with details of events using a DVD/Blu-Ray so we keep the free royalty and charges arrangements

iv. Consider involving Polio survivors and/or others connected to Polio in some way and using extracts from Breathe to help bring home ‘Why I Care’ to all

D. Online Auction and the power of the internet i. An online auction will be happening on World

Polio Day ii. Explore opportunities for club/district events like

this or using the power of the internet generally iii. Social media is extremely powerful and using

# P u r p l e 4 P o l i o , # E n d P o l i o N o w a n d #PeopleofAction hashtags for all polio activities really increases their impact

E. Over To You - HELP PLEASE - contact Jannine i. Clubs and districts organise many different

successful polio related activities each year. As well as registering those activities with the online form for the Map if you think they are worth spreading the word about or being considered for RotaryGBI suggested activities tell Jannine

ii. Constructive feedback welcomed at all times iii. Tell us of any potential sponsors or partners that

can help the Rotary End Polio Now campaign, locally, regionally, across RotaryGBI or beyond

iv. Wear your Crocus Buttonhole and/or your End Polio Now lapel badge

v. Ensure all Rotarians have an ‘elevator speech’ about the Rotary Polio Story

vi. Ta k e a l o o k a t e n d p o l i o . o r g a n d polioeradication.org from time to time to stay up to date with the global efforts to End Polio Now

TIMELINE representation of Rotary Year 2019 20 Planned activities to help End Polio Now – suggestions for clubs and districts FinalJB v.1 - incorporating any input from Reg Ling, Keith Paver, Eve Conway and Judith Diment - does not include club or district initiatives such as P4P Ice cream, Purple Gin, Caterham Racing car etc.

ACTIVITY Split12 Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Major suggestions in 19 20 plan Crocus Orders 20 / 0 / 80 Crocus Planting / Use 25 / 30 / 45 Pandemic Conference (incl call to action for young people delegates to help with subsequent fund raising for Rotary EPN and anti-vaxx message)

40 / 10 / 50

World Polio Day – Purple4Polio lighting (period can cover Fri 18th Oct – Sun 27th Oct

30 / 20 / 50

World Polio Day (period) – Multi-faith service 50 / 15 / 35 World Polio Day (period) – Rotary awareness activity (Polio and beyond, home and int’l)

40 / 20 / 40

Get Moving to End Polio 90 / 5 / 5 Fill Your Plate for Polio 90 / 5 / 5 Crocus Blooming 25 / 10 / 65

Other suggestions in 19 20 plan I Care Because….. (reconnecting our hearts, minds and ‘souls’ to finishing the job)

45 / 10 / 45

World Polio Day (or appropriate time) – online auction 85 / 5 / 10 Rotary Polio Bear 50 / 5 / 45 Crocus buttonholes (subject to way forward) 70 / 5 / 25 Clubs own initiatives 65 / 10 / 25

Other matters House of Commons Polio Eradication Event 2nd Jul 0 / 100 / 0 People of Action Polio Award 19 20 – nominations close 31st Jul2

10 / 5 / 85

People of Action Polio Awards 19 20 – recipients selected by 31st Aug2

10 / 5 / 85

People of Action Polio Awards 19 20 – presentations to recipients at District level2

10 / 5 / 85

Gold, silver, bronze certificates for $55, $45, $35 per Rotarian Polio giving for districts to use2

75 / 5 / 20

Volunteer Expo 2020 0 / 20 / 80 DDF Giving to End Polio Now 100 / 0 / 0

1 Indicates out of 100% anticipated average split of impact between the 3 priorities below. Fund Raising Goal $55 raised per Rotarian Advocacy Contact all levels of politicians Rotary / polio link Keep telling the Rotary Polio Story (keep Rotary’s role in the work for a polio free world in the public’s mind)

2 Note that many other benefits than the priorities in Footnote 1 can also lead from some of these activities such as awareness about Rotary generally, membership recruitment and retention, links with community groups, widening of equality and diversity within Rotary and the reach of Rotary, inspiring others to increase their commitment to End Polio Now