Barter Inns backs Tap into WaterAid
Pub company Barter Inns is the latest to sign up to a Publican-backed initiative to help provide clean water to the world's poorest people.
All 25 pubs in the estate have agreed to support Tap into WaterAid, which raises funds by asking customers to make a donation of 15p or more when they ask for tap water.
As part of the mandatory conditions on alcohol retailing that were introduced earlier this year licensees are now obliged to offer free tap water.
Julia Defries, operations manager for Barter Inns, which has pubs in the London and the South East, said licensees were keen to sign up.
She said: "These days you have to offer free tap water and people can come in and use your facilities. This way licensees feel more confident about saying to people can you make a contribution because there are people in the world without clean water."
Managers have also been staging events, such as quizzes, to raise more funds for the charity.
Hundreds of pubs and companies have signed up to Tap into WaterAid, including Charles Wells and SA Brain.
For more information call 0207 7934949 or visit www.wateraid.org/thepublican
