PWLLHELI Rotary Club and local artist, Carys Bryn, have teamed up to raise over £4,000 for charity.

A total of £4,200 has been raised for the National Rotary Crocus Campaign, which is one of the leading international fundraisers for the End Polio Now Campaign.

Since 2012, Rotary Crocuses have raised £1.2m and the money has been distributed in 15 countries.

They are an easy way for every club to reach out to the wider community to raise funds and awareness for End Polio Now.

And at the same time help to raise the public profile of the Rotary.

Fabric crocus buttonholes are offered to members of the public in return for a donation.

When donors wear their crocuses, they become walking adverts.

Each crocus comes on an information card which tells the story of the eradication programme and Rotary’s pivotal role in it.

It provides the wearer with the answer to the question ‘that’s a nice flower, what’s it for?’

The crocus was chosen as the purple colour matched the dye painted on the fingers of children who have been immunised.

Carys was kind enough to paint and donate the original painting of purple cactuses to the Pwllheli Rotary Club and members of the Club then set off to sell raffle tickets for the painting and raised £1,400 with sales and received a donation of £2,800 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which made the total raised a cool £4,200.

The fundraising from this painting does not finish here as Carys Bryn, with the help of Pwllheli photographer Dewi Wyn, have copied the painting and the Rotary Club have been given permission to sell copies with most of the money going to the charity.

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