Ideas and Resources
One Water Project
One Water Project Toolkit - Ideas on how you can deliver the One Water Project
One Water Project Poster - PDF poster you can use to promote the One Water Project.
Water - People, Planet and Profits
Thirst An educational presentation exploring humanity’s water use.
BBC: 60 second guide to… Bottled water Facts and figures on bottled water.
Teachertube Find educational videos on water and social enterprise.
Recycle Now guide to recycling in the UK including what you can recycle and where to recycle near you.
MSN: Water Crisis MSN guide on how the world is facing a critical shortage.
About One Water
The One Water Website Find out more about One Water and access online resources, logos, images, posters.
£1,000,000 for Africa August 2008 press release.
One Water on Flickr View photographs of the work of the One Foundation on Flickr, the photo-sharing website.
One Water on Youtube View videos on One Water on the video-sharing website.
Social Enterprise
Trailblazers 2008 (PDF 3MB) A magazine for young people and anyone new to social enterprise. It’s aimed at those who want to engage with the challenging issues affecting us today, both locally and globally: violence and conflict, poverty and development, climate change, education and funding.
ChangeMakers Offers youth led learning programmes, grant schemes and volunteering initiatives which will help young people get more involved in their local community.
Prince’s Trust A charity that ‘helps young people overcome barriers and get their lives working’.
Case Studies
Inspiring Stories @ Make Your Mark Find case studies of social enterpreneurs.
Uxbridge college presentation - The One Water Project in Uxbridge College.
One Water Project @ St Matthew Academy
The One Water Project was launched on Social Enterprise Day at St Matthew Academy, a brand new business and enterprise academy in South-East London. This was a fantastic case study of social enterprise in education. The One Water Project was introduced to groups of Year 8 girls who were then challenged to come up with enterprising ideas to sell bottles of One Water. Role Models and leading figures in social enterprise were present at the event talking about their experiences including Duncan Goose, the Chief Exectuvie of One Water and Kevin Brennan, Mininster for the Third Sector.
Sam Conniff from Livity kicked off the event with a speed-networking activity giving the opportunity for the girls to work together with the ‘adults’ to discuss ideas. He said, “Social Enterprise is about making a profit and also making a difference. One of the things that stuck in my mind about One Water was that 2 million people die a year through unclean water. These pumps act like a round-about that’s a really interesting way of solving a problem.”
Monica Cross, Principal of St Matthew Academy empahsised their committment to the One Water Project, - “There is nothing more basic in life than the importance of clean fresh water. Social Enterprise fits in with our ethos as a Catholic School to make sure all the students have a sense of ethics.”
Great ideas being bounced around by the kids include:
Holding a concert with NDubz and DJ Ironik (if you know who they are, you’re down with the kids)
Smoothie Hats (?)
Boat Races
Messages in a bottle from celebrities
A Madonna dance-athon
Plastic bottle dress fahion show
They’ve even adapted the theme song from Sister Act 2 to the One Water Project
These young people clearly have some innovative ideas. We look forward to see what they do in raising money for the One Water Project in December.
