Top

'The Water Conservation Trust is the Company's Charity. It is supervised by six trustees. Although they are members of the Company, they act independently of it and are personally responsible for the well being of the Charity under the law. The Trust's main objects are to further education and research in the water cycle and the environment, with a view to its conservation, and also to assist those in the industry with financial need.
One of the earliest of the Company's educational initiatives, the Pupil's Prizes scheme, is increasingly being taken up by schools via any Company member. The scheme encourages children, at any school in the UK, in their study of water and conservation, by offering prizes for their water and environmental projects. (Follow the various links for further information)
The photograph shows Rev Adrian Hopwood of the Water Conservators with Ridgeway School winners in 2004

Another initiative, but within the higher education sphere, is our Water Conservation Bursaries. These are aimed at supporting post-graduate university students in the study of water and conservation topics.
Relevant post graduate and MSc projects are also supported by the award of Dissertation Prizes and Dissertation support Grants.
The Tony Drake Travelling Scholarship is offered bi-annually to younger members of CIWEM, the industry's professional institution, (see links) to support relevant overseas study projects.
Numerous other prizes, scholarships and awards have been made by the Trust since its foundation. For example, in the past the Trust helped to establish the Chair in Pipeline Technology at the University of East London and  supported the Shoals of Capricorn research Project.  More recently we have given grants to the Calvert Trust and Ysgol Gogarth where we’ve assisted in the raising of environmental awareness in young people and children with disabilities.
Awards continue to be made each year to many organisations, some of which have well established links with the Company whilst others are quite separate from it.

For information on recent awards and grants, please click here

The Water Conservation Trust also assists annually in financing placements of members of the Military Works Force to attend the CIWEM young members study, and provides other support for our other armed services affiliations, and the Trust also assists individual cadets from the Maidstone Sea Cadets to attend a tour of duty on board HMS Scott.

Click here for details of all the awards supported by the Water Conservation Trust

Back to Top