On Thursday July the 27th, the Rotary Club of Macclesfield Castle held an event, which they called a Jamboree, at Gawsworth Hall in aid of Polio Eradication. The owners of the Hall, the Richards family, had been very supportive from the day when the club first approached them through to the day itself which started with a Cream Tea in their Tea Room with ingredients freely donated by Wilkins (Tiptree jam), Typhoo (Tea and disposable cups), Waitrose and Sainsbury's (Scones) and Smith's Dairy (Cream and milk) and in the evening all visitors had tickets for an entertaining concert by the Houghton Weavers.

Polio remains endemic in three countries – Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. Until poliovirus transmission is interrupted in these countries, all countries remain at risk of importation of polio, especially vulnerable countries with weak public health and immunization services and travel or trade links to endemic countries.

The proceeds from the Jamboree will be added to the international Global Polio Eradication Initiative which is a public-private partnership led by national governments with five core partners – the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Its goal is to eradicate polio worldwide.