The Drinking Fountain Association welcomes applications for grants to help fund projects that fall within its objectives. In 2005 the Association’s grants totalled £17,276. In principle the Association allocates about one-third of its net income to overseas projects. For cost effectiveness these donations are channelled through UK registered charities. Based on the merits of grant applications the Committee makes a monetary award ranging from £50 to £3000.

Drinking Fountain Association 2007 Financial Highlights

The Committee made 12 grants during the year the largest of which were as follows:

Wells for India
The project was to build “Water Harvesting” facilities to provide a supply of clean drinking water for 75,000 people and their live stock. The project target was to raise £87,750 All labour is to be provided free of charge by the local people with Wells for India providing the expertise, all machinery and materials. We awarded a grant to this charity in 2004. A grant of £2,000 was awarded by the Association.

The Karen Hill Tribe Trust
This charity comes highly recommend by a former trustee of the Association, Tessa Wells. Karen Hill Tribes Trust works with the people of North West Thailand. They would like to install a clean water system in a Karen village. They have been installing water systems since 1999 using gravity fed systems devised by their project manager. Project time is relatively quick – 3 weeks from start to finish. Approximately 300 people will use the water. The total cost of the project is £3,500. The Association made a grant of £2,000.

The Busoga Trust
The Charity provides hand dug wells in Uganda. They have completed 1350 wells so far. 500 people will benefit from this project. The Trustees awarded a grant of £2,000.

Azafady
The charity asked for a grant to build two wells with pumps in rural South East Madagascar. 1,200 people would benefit from the well. It is part of an on-going project to improve health and sanitation in the region. £2000 was awarded.

The Royal Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council
An award of £1,500 was paid to the Council towards the costs of restoring a Victorian Drinking Fountain. A campaign had been launched to by the Westbourne Grove Resident’s Association to bring the fountain back to use. The Council have agreed to help with this.

Details of the Associations finances are presented in the 148th Annual Report attached below