Music Concert to Help End Polio

Pupils from local schools will shortly have their chance to support the worldwide effort to eradicate polio by performing in a special concert being arranged by Ludlow Rotary Club.

‘Youth Makes Music’ is the name of a concert to be held at the Ludlow Assembly Rooms on Friday 1st March at 7pm. The concert will be given by pupils from schools in South Shropshire and North Herefordshire including Ludlow Primary School, Weobley High School, Clee Hill Community Academy, Earl Mortimer College, Bishop’s Castle Community College and Lacon Childe School. It will feature songs from the 1950s through to the present day, music from the shows, rock and roll, classical and a whole lot more.

Speaking about the concert, organiser Tom Hunt of Ludlow Rotary Club said, “It is wonderful that these young people have been inspired to help end polio by performing this concert, for until polio is totally eradicated every child is at risk of this highly infectious, potentially life-threatening and paralysing disease.” He added, “There is no cure for polio but there is a safe and effective vaccine which we need to continue to roll out until there are no more cases. Rotary is in the vanguard of efforts to bring polio to an end. Since its involvement the number of cases worldwide has reduced from 350,000 in 1985 to just 12 in 2023, and the world could be polio-free in 2024.When the world is finally confirmed to be polio-free, it will be only the second human disease ever to be eradicated after smallpox.”

Tickets for the concert can be ordered through the club’s website at: www.ludlowrotaryclub.org.uk. Donations in support may also be made at: www.peoplesfundraising.com/fundraising/end-polio-now. All funds raised will go to Rotary International’s ‘End Polio Now’ initiative.