The Well Foundation

The Well Foundation was founded in July 2008, We got our charity no SC010405 in Jan 2009.

Why Water: 

The founding members of the charity researched and consulted other charity organisations as to what we could help provide to those in need. The result was the formation of the 'the Well Foundation', whose primary objective is the provision of clean safe drinking water to those people in developing countries around the globe.

For those of us living in the developed world we take for granted one of lives most basic yet valuable commodities clean safe drinking water. We drink, cook, clean and bathe with it. Yet over a billion people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water. The lack of clean water has a detrimental impact on the daily life of almost 1 in 6 of us in the world. Lack of clean water immensely affects people’s health and quality of life.

Polluted water is the world's largest killer of children under five. The Well Foundation will primarily aim to raise money to develop sources of clean water (wells), install hand pumps, establish health and sanitation programme's to provide accessible clean water to the less fortunate regions of the world.

In the future the Well Foundation will seek to undertake a number of key projects beyond the provision of clean drinking water, all of which will be in line with the charities objectives of undertaking projects that will compliment people’s lives in the third world.

Charity info:

We are 100% charity, all money raised from Charity tubs, Event’s, Standing orders etc go to to the Project we are concentrating on at that particular point. Although we have several charity partners inc Islamic Relief, Water Wells & Ucare.

Money Raised:

We have raised just under £250,000 in less than two years.

The Well foundation has raised over £170,000 from events inc Charity comedy nights in Lanarkshire & Cardiff, Formal dinner evenings, Football tournaments, Coffee Mornings etc

Over £1000 raised from our text “Well” to 82540 service

Over £10,000 from individual and company donations

Around £200 every month from Standing orders

Over £40,000 from our Well foundation charity tubs placed in over 250 shops all over the UK & Ireland.

Projects:

1.    Gaza Shifia Hospital (in association with Islamic Relief) over £70,000 was raised to help rebuild shifia Hospital.

2.    Malawi – Four deep water wells were built in late 2009 at cost of £23,000 and this brings clean drinking water to over 5,000 people

3.    Niger – 3 Deep bore wells to be built in 2011 at cost of £22,000

4.    Pakistan floods – over £65,000 has been raised for all areas of the flood victims of Pakistan, we had our own team out there where we sent money and they would buy food and blankets for the victims, We also worked with PIA and the Army for food packages, now we have got £50,000 to help build new houses for the flood victims in Partnership with Islamic Relief.

Funding:

As The Well Foundation team is a 100% charity, the way we fund ourselves for Advertising materials etc is through sponsors. All sponsor money is spent on Well Foundation events or advertising.

Members:

The Well Foundation has 70 members, we have 25 Fundraisers who collect the Charity tub money, 20 volunteers for events, We have our own I.T department, Marketing department, PR department and Events teams. All members are Volunteers.

We also now have our own Minibus paid by the volunteers and a Well Foundation Office.

Achievements:

The Well Foundation was the winner of the Oceanic Asian Business awards in Oct 2010 for the community award. This was an great achievement as we were up against UCare and Edinburgh Mela, two of Scotland’s top charitys.

Future:

We are now looking to open Well foundation charity shops, these are going to be different from the normal charity shop, these will be business like Ice cream parlours, sweet shops, etc with All profits going to the Well foundation.

We have also got involved with Businesses in our new Official Business Charity Programme, over 20 businesses have already signed up for this.

In 2011 we are going to be focusing more on awareness.

We will continue to work building wells, as this is our main focus, clean water for all.

We are looking to do over 3 projects a year.