Welsh Water supports biodiversity projects through its Community Fund

This is part of Welsh Water’s commitment to protect and enhance the environment, and endeavour to help local communities.

The funded projects involve a variety of activities such as renovating a memorial garden, purchasing equipment for volunteers working to protect marine wildlife, encouraging wildlife in local communities, building a footpath to safely access a fishing area, helping to create outside learning areas to develops pupils’ knowledge about environment and biodiversity, plus many more. More than twenty local groups and organisations benefited from the support of the community fund.

Ian Chriswick, Assistant Headteacher at Ysgol Bro Dinefwr said: ‘Thanks to the fund awarded by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water and other organisations we have been able to undertake significant work to build an outdoor learning area to facilitate the new Curriculum for Wales - which will enable us to deliver cross-curricular environmental projects in collaboration with HEIs such as Swansea University and the Centre for Alternative Technology. We’d like to thank Welsh Water for helping us getting one step closer to our goal!’

Ruth Moss, Herefordshire Wildlife Monitoring Officer at the Countryside Restoration Trust, said: “The funding awarded by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water will enable the Countryside Restoration Trust and our fantastic volunteers to restore the bank of the Slough brook with native water plants and wildflowers as well as providing an important habitat and feeding site for our hardworking pollinators – and their predators. We’d like to thank Welsh Water for their help allowing us to support a living, working countryside’’

Claire Roberts, Head of Community Engagement for Welsh Water said: We’re a socially responsible company – this is what customers and colleagues expect of us. We always look at opportunities to help protect or enhance the environment and biodiversity and giving back to local communities is important to us. Funding environmental projects such as these has allowed us to do both. We are delighted and excited to see how the funding benefit communities around our operational area.

We already play a key role in our communities by providing the most essential of services – clean water, treating and getting rid of wastewater safely and we’re delighted to support local groups in this way.’’