Ayr Walks for Water
A charity fun event for all the family
Ayr Walks For Water is a fun fundraising event organised by the Rotary Club of Ayr Benevolent Fund, in association with the Inner Wheel club of Ayr and with the support of South Ayrshire Council, Scottish Water and many other lovely local partners.
Ayr Walks for Water
Sunday 8th May 2022
Ayr Promenade
Ayr Walks for Water is a new fun charity walking event along the beautiful flat promenade of Ayr. You and your friends are invited to join us, every year we hope, to enjoy the beautiful Clyde Coast scenery, the wonderful historic Auld Toun of Ayr, and later watch the best sunsets in the West of Scotland - whilst helping others in distress.
All are welcome. The event is suitable for young and old, the super- fit, and the less able. Individuals, schools, organisations and family groups are very welcome to engage both with the walk and with the Aquabox story.
You are asked to collect sponsorship for a walk along and back the beautiful Ayr Promenade carrying water, echoing the awful reality of water poverty for far too many people. Men, women and even children are known to carry heavy loads of water (about 20 litres) on their heads, causing severe damage to the neck and spine over time. It is said that the average distance that women and children walk for water in Africa and Asia is six kilometres (approximately 3.7 miles). - and that is almost exactly the distance you will be covering!
Ayr Walks for Water will raise funds for Aquabox, a Rotary water relief charity, which specialises in providing equipment that enables clean water in disaster-hit areas - anywhere.
WATCH THE AQUABOX VIDEO - THE WORLD'S GLASS IS ONLY HALF FULL - HERE
£30 provides an Aquabox Family Unit pump, designed for use by individuals or a family.
WE ARE PROPOSING THAT ALL PARTICIPANTS RAISE A MINIMUM OF £30 - ENOUGH TO FUND ONE AQUABOX FILTER THAT WILL PROVIDE POTABLE WATER FOR A FAMILY.
The AquaFilter Family Unit can deliver 1 litre per minute and half a million litres of clean drinking water over its working life. The AquaFilter Family simply fastens to a container of water, such as a bucket, and using a simple hand pump safe water is dispensed to a cup.
£250 buys a unit that serves a whole community. The community unit can deliver 6 litres per minute and over 1 million litres of clean drinking water over its working life.
More details on the Aquabox filters can be found HERE.
JOIN US ON THE WALK
We hope that many will want to take part in the walk.
To make that possible it is important that you register by booking in advance.
Bookings/registrations will open on Monday 14th March 2022.
Please choose your preferred session as shown below and book using the link given
FIRST SESSION 09:00 - 12 : 00
is for the following:-
a) Family groups and nurseries.
b) Primary schools.** (Please see Teachers' Resource on this web site for resources from Aquabox and Scottish Water.)
c) Secondary Schools** (Please see Teachers' Resource on this web site for resources from Aquabox and Scottish Water )
book here;-
SECOND SESSION 12:00 - 15:00
is for the following:-
Faith groups
Uniformed groups
book here:-
THIRD SESSION - 15:00 - 17:00
is for the following:-
Business teams
Sports Clubs*
Individual walkers
Fancy dress
book here:-
* Sports and other clubs are invited to get creative and take part in fun fundraising events in the afternoon of the event. Please send your ideas to john@ayrwalksforwater.org
And the day will end with a fancy dress novelty event.
The entry fee is £3.
All participants will receive a start time, a recyclable water bottle, a biodegradable poncho and our grateful thanks!
Entry fees are non refundable. We regret that we cannot offer refunds in any circumstances. In the event that you cannot or do not attend, your entry fee will be donated along with any surplus from the entry fees direct to Aquabox by the organisers.
Please note that entry to the event is subject to some limits. To avoid disappointment please book early.
** PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL CHILDREN AND GROUPS OF CHILDREN MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A SUITABLE ADULT.
Please click HERE for details of Scottish Water's "Join the Wave" campaign, and a quarterly e-newsletter to keep you up-to date with all the news from Scottish Water, their campaigns and how Scottish Water are supporting communities around Scotland.
SPONSORSHIP
WE ARE PROPOSING THAT ALL PARTICIPANTS RAISE A MINIMUM OF £30 - ENOUGH TO FUND ONE AQUABOX FILTER THAT WILL PROVIDE POTABLE WATER FOR ONE FAMILY.
You can submit your sponsorship monies in two ways.
You can use the details in this downloadable sponsorship form below
Everyone is asked to ensure sponsorship money is paid directly to Aquabox as soon after the event as possible.
THANK YOU on behalf of people you may never know but who will owe their life to your efforts.
And a HUGE thank you to all our partners
