Growing Redhill: "I want to say a big thank you for this offer of funding - we look forward to delivering community water saving initiatives.
Every Drop Counts community funds
Every Drop Counts community fund
SES Water's supply area is classed as being in serious water stress by the Environment Agency. Therefore, we need to save water now to ensure there is enough for everyone in our area and enough left in the environment for healthy rivers and wildlife.
One of the ways we are helping with this is by providing the ‘Every Drop Counts' community fund for local non-profit organisations to apply for, which they can use to help fund a project with a close link to water efficiency. These projects could include: drought resistant planting, installing water efficient toilets/taps/showers, buying water butts and plumbing repairs. If you think you might be interested in applying for this you can find more information and apply here
To date we have donated more than £20,000 to local organisations and look forward to helping others.
Funding case studies
Previous beneficiaries of the funding have included local Scout groups, horticultural societies and allotments.
We provided funds to Maple Road Allotment in Reigate & Banstead so they purchase water butts to store water around the site, so every plot can be reached within watering can carrying distance. The funds also went towards buying new guttering to help fill up the water butts with rain water.
"Thank you so much - this funding will make such a difference as we are doing it all on a shoe-string."
"We are delighted with our new water wall. The children are so excited about all the different features and there are so many opportunities for developing vocabulary, stretching thinking and supporting play skills. Managing tight budgets is increasingly difficult for schools and it was a real treat for the teachers to buy resources needed for our fabulous water wall. Thank you for the grant, SES Water."
"We have purchased the water butts with the funding from SES Water and have installed them in two different locations.
"It has made such a huge difference getting this grant. We relocated our planting area to a new spot and whilst we had a shed we had no means of collecting rainwater to water the vegetables. Our thrive practitioner works with children on their emotional wellbeing and they will enjoy spending time in the area growing vegetables and working together outdoors."
"The water butts allow us to conserve the rain water so the Scouts can use it to water various flower beds and vegetables they grow at various times of the year towards their badge work. This obviously saves us money if we don't need to use the mains water for this purpose and is therefore beneficial to the Group. We found the application process very straight forward and were delighted when we were given the grant. It timed perfectly with the new shed and replacement of another water butt which had cracked last summer."
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