With Holocaust Memorial Day approaching, Watford Rotary Club is supporting an initiative in helping to set up a Holocaust Museum beside Lake Windermere. Just after WWII, 300 orphaned boys who were liberated from the concentration camps were allowed into the UK and sent to Windermere. The Lakes School, on the shores of Lake Windermere, is built on the site of the Calgarth Estate, where the ‘Windermere Boys’ were initially housed.

With the school’s history and connection to the 300 ‘Windermere Boys’, the pupils want to create a memorial to commemorate the event. They decided to collect more than 1.5 million buttons to reflect the children that were murdered. “B for Buttons” was conceived. The aim of this project is that this collection becomes a memorial in a new Holocaust Museum being built in Windermere to commemorate the story of the boys.

I am therefore appealing for help from Observer readers in getting buttons donated. All buttons are welcome, so please, search out your drawers etc, ask your friends and collect as many buttons as you can. You can either post them off or drop them in, for the attention of Councillor Rabi Martins at Watford Town Hall, Watford WD17 3EX, please mark it B for Buttons.

David Silverston

PR at Watford Rotary Club