The Water Conservation Trust has supported the creation of, and following its opening on 5 June, the operation of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in Clerkenwell. It is in the old pumping station and works at the end of the New River. The Trustees were very keen to visit…...
We need to do more, faster – A Conversation about Sustainability
Our grateful thanks to Dame Polly Courtice, founder of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and Peter Simpson, former Chief Executive of Anglian Water, for sharing a fascinating conversation on the development of politics, policy, economics and corporate attitudes to sustainability over the last thirty years. The conversation explored a…...
Providing water at the Treloar’s Gala Dinner
The Treloar’s 20th Anniversary Gala Dinner at the Guild Hall was a sell out. We had a wonderful night of celebration raising funds for this exceptional school. The school’s incredible work delivers specialist care and support for around 180 students from across the country. The Water Conservators are regular supporters…...
Putting the environment at the centre of thinking and planning
For too long businesses have treated the environmental impacts of what they do as a side effect. Instead they should be putting the environment at the centre of their thinking and planning, according to Dr Stephanie Wray of RSK Nature Repair, part of the RSK Group environmental consultancy. Businesses that…...
Master’s Weekend in Stratford-upon-Avon
You can take Stratford out of Shakespeare – as indeed Shakespeare spent much of his time in London – but you cannot take Shakespeare out of Stratford. Shakespeare tea rooms, the Shakespeare bookshop, Shakespeare distillery … For our Master’s weekend in Stratford-upon-Avon we enjoyed full immersion in all things Shakespeare.…...
Best in Class – Congratulations!
The Water Conservators’ cutter Water Forget-me-not won the mixed crew class in the Oxbridge Watermen’s Challenge from Putney Bridge to Chiswick Bridge on the river Thames. The race for traditional Thames Watermen’s Cutters or Gigs took place just before the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. Teams came from City of…...
