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NOVEMBER / DECEMBER . 2021 | VOL.22
UK Coffee Week's Fundraising Success
As the year comes to an end, Project Waterfall, a
charity working to end the water crisis in coffee-
growing communities across the world is
delighted to announce that so far just over
£59,000 has been raised during its annual
fundraising campaign UK Coffee Week.
The money was raised by 100’s of coffee shops,
restaurants and roasters from across the UK
between 18th and 24th October, along with the
official Big UK Coffee Week Raffle. Participants
donated from coffee sales or held competitions Head of UK Coffee Week Emily Taiano said:
and events to help raise funds to support the “We are delighted with the fundraising
millions of people in coffee-growing efforts of everybody involved. So far just over
communities who don’t have access to clean £59,000 has been raised during this year’s
water. UK Coffee Week to support Project Waterfall
and the donations are still coming in. Every
The funds raised during this year’s campaign will penny raised by our supporters will be used
support two programmes. The first, in to bring clean water, sanitation, and
partnership with WaterAid, a four-year education to coffee-growing communities
programme in Ethiopia bringing clean water to throughout the world. Thank you to each
over 10,000 people. Currently just over £19,000 and every business who got involved,
will support this project with more funds enabling Project Waterfall to continue its vital
expected to come in. The second project is in work.”
partnership with the Costa Foundation where
£40,000, donated by Costa Coffee, will support Project Waterfall works tirelessly with
clean water and sanitation projects in schools in delivery partners such as WaterAid to help
coffee farming communities. end the water crisis. To date, more than
£800,000 has been raised during UK Coffee
Week for Project Waterfall, helping fund 13
projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nicaragua,
Tanzania, and Uganda, changing more than
45,000 lives.
To find out more about UK Coffee
Week and the work they do visit:
www.ukcoffeeweek.com
