Yorkshire Water

The WaterAid tap and toilet tour Yorkshire Water sites during Water Aware Week to collect donations and raise awareness.

In the last decade Yorkshire Water employees and customers have raised a whopping £3 million for WaterAid. The annual customer appeal alone raised over £237,803 since 2001 and there are several major fundraising events each year. Yorkshire Water is proud to have this association and to have made a real difference to thousands of lives.

The WaterAid committee at Yorkshire Water works hard to produce a wide ranging annual calendar of fundraising events. In 2005 a glamorous ball held in the National Railway Museum in York raised over £58, 000. Other annual events include a golf day, an 'It's a knockout' tournament, fishing competitions and Water Aware week. Water Aware Week is an extravaganza of fundraising and awareness raising activity centred on World Water Day on the 22nd March.

2006 is the tenth anniversary of the 6 Peaks Challenge, a unique event that challenges teams to climb the highest peaks in the six regions of the British Isles in 72 hours. The challenge is organised by Yorkshire Water employees and supported by the company and their contractors. For more information about the challenge please visit www.wateraid6peakschallenge.org.uk.

For more detailed information on forthcoming events please visit the events near you page.

In February 2006 Nikki Hart, a WaterAid volunteer and Yorkshire Water employee, visited WaterAid projects in Burkina Faso. Inspired by her trip her trip, Nikki has since become a WaterAid speaker, giving talks and presentations to a variety of groups.

If you would like a WaterAid speaker to come and talk to your organisation or group, please visit our speakers' page.

For more information on WaterAid in Yorkshire please contact Stephanie Walden.

To find out more about Yorkshire Water, visit the Yorkshire Water website.

To find out more about Yorkshire Water's fundraising activities for WaterAid, download their latest newsletter ( PDF 850Kb)

WaterAid Golf Day organised by Yorkshire Water

This year's WaterAid Golf Day is due to tee off on 5 July, and if the weather keeps like it is, it's sure to be a fantastic day for everyone! The annual competition is organised each year by a small team at Yorkshire Water for their service partners, and has grown in size and popularity steadily over the years; this year all 32 teams had signed up within weeks.

There will be a challenging course at Aughton in York as well as Hit the Green, the Longest Drive, Nearest the Pin challenges and Putting and Chipping competitions. Then the players will spend a full day engrossed in golf, whilst raising money for a excellent cause. Last year's competition raised over £13,000 and so the organisers are praying for good weather and for people to be as generous as last year!