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One Queen Anne's Gate - Tap into WaterAid
10/11/2008
London venue One Queen Anne's Gate is launching its support of Tap into WaterAid.
The conference facility located in Westminster is suggesting to customers to make a voluntary donation to WaterAid for every bottle of chilled tap water they consume during their event. The scheme works by simply ticking a box on the One Queen Anne's Gate booking form to pledge an amount to Tap into WaterAid.
All donations made are passed on to WaterAid to fund life-saving water, sanitation and hygiene education projects in the developing world
Venue & Marketing Director Adele Summers explains "We have always believed in offering chilled tap water at meetings at no additional charge and with one in six people not having access to safe water, we felt motivated to try to help quench an essential human need. The response from our customers to the idea has been really encouraging and we hope this will be reflected with donations".
Adeline Moe, Tap into WaterAid's project manager says "We're hoping that One Queen Anne's Gate's customers will feel motivated to join in with Tap into WaterAid. It costs just £15 for WaterAid to bring safe water, sanitation and hygiene education to someone in poverty, so with this new support, many lives will be transformed for the better. Water is life!"
To find out more please go to www.oneqag.co.uk .
For information specifically about the Tap into WaterAid initiative please visit www.wateraid.org/tapintowateraid or email tapintowateraid@wateraid.org
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Notes to Editors
For further information on One Queen Anne's Gate, including quotes and images, or to arrange interviews, please contact Bernadette Pescod by email at Bpescod@oneqag.co.uk or by telephone on 020 7344 1884.
Background notes:
One Queen Anne's Gate established in 2000 is a conference, meeting and private dining venue set within a listed building in Westminster. Our unique spaces with all essential audio visual including plasma screens and video conferencing have ranging capacities from a meeting of 4, to a private dinner for 50 or theatre style for 65 delegates.
WaterAid contact: Lisa Martin 020 7793 4524 lisamartin@wateraid.org
About WaterAid:
WaterAid enables the world's poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. Our vision is of a world where everyone has access to these basic human rights which underpin health, education and livelihoods forming the first, essential step in overcoming poverty.
- At least 5000 children die every day as a result of diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation.
- 884 million people in the world do not have access to safe water. This is roughly one in eight of the world's population.
- 2.5 billion people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation, this is almost two fifths of the world's population.
- WaterAid projects providing safe water, sanitation and hygiene education cost just £15 per head.
