Donations

Village Water’s work would not be possible without the generous support of individual donors, Charitable Trusts, corporate donors and community groups – especially Rotary.

Charitable trust Wilmslow Wells For Africa says:

“We are very supportive of your work which delivers very good 'value for money' in terms of success rates and numbers helped.”

In the coming years we will continue to rely on all our supporters, including the political goodwill of the Government of Zambia, the diligent and professional commitment of all stakeholders in the water and sanitation sector, and the continued generosity and compassion of donors to help us meet the ambitious Millennium Development Goal Targets we are committed to reaching. 

If you are interested in finding out more about projects that you, your company, your community group, or your Trust could support please contact Ellie Smith (Village Water UK fund raiser, see right) on ellie@villagewater.org or 0845 190 2582.

Donate Online Securely Now

If you would like to donate towards the work of Village Water using a credit card, it is best for us if you do this via the Just Giving web site. This allows you to use a range of credit cards. If you sign up for an account (although you don't have to) you can keep track of all your charitable giving. Please remember to GiftAid your donation if you pay UK income tax.  Donate via Just Giving. 

Payroll Giving

Payroll Giving enables you to donate to Village Water from pre-taxed earnings, which means you benefit from immediate tax relief on your gift. As an example, a basic rate tax payer who donates £10 pays £2 less tax on their income; so in effect the donation only costs you £8! Another benefit is that many employers now match (or even double-match) employee donations. If you are interested in donating in this way ask your employer about the company’s Payroll Giving Scheme. 

Donation By Cheque Or Postal Order

Cheques or postal orders should be made payable to Village Water Ltd and sent to:

Village Water
Unit 20a,
Business Development Centre,
Stafford Park 4
Telford
Shropshire
TF3 3BA
United Kingdom 

GiftAid

Are you a UK taxpayer? Whether that be income tax, or capital gains tax, Gift Aid allows us to increase the value of your donations at no extra cost to you. For every pound you give to us we can receive an extra 28.2 pence from the Inland Revenue helping your donation to go further. If, therefore, you are likely to pay the value of your donation in tax to the Government this financial year, please complete this form and send it to us with your cheque or postal order, so that we can increase the value of your donation. ( If you donate online, you do not need to complete this form, but do remember to tick the Gift Aid box as you go through the online process.) Download our GiftAid form here.

How Your Money Could Be Spent

It is important to us to use all donations as efficiently as possible. Your money could be used in many different ways to further our aim of providing clean water and sanitation and hygiene education to rural villages in Zambia:

• £10 provides hygiene education and clean water  for one person.

• £40 could buy cement for a rehabilitated well.

• £100 will cover the travel costs for working with one community programme.

• £150 provides a week of pump mender training for 2 villagers, ensuring the community's well can be maintained.

• £200 could buy all the cement needed to install a new well.

• £300 pays for 3 field workers to carry out a full programme of hygiene and sanitation training in a community.

• £450 could pay for a brand new India Mark II water pump.

• £1,500 could pay for refurbishing an installation, bringing a useless pump back into full use. At the same time we carry out a full Village Water community sanitation and hygiene mobilisation programme. (The pumps we refurbish have previously been  provided by organisations no longer working in the area. We always train village pump operators, so they know how to carry out basic maintenance to give a pump a long and useful life.)

• £2,500 could pay for a complete pump installation plus a sanitation and hygiene program for a village of 250 people.