Belu (filtered water for offices and hospitality)
Belu is an amazing social enterprise, that offers both filtered and bottled/canned water for offices and the hospitality industry (restaurants, hotels etc). And uses profits to help provide clean water in Global South countries. Just imagine is everyone switched over, what good it could do?
We could take this even further. Just imagine if all schools, hospitals, nursing homes, doctor surgeries, gyms, council offices and government buildings also switched. It would reduce a huge amount of plastic waste, keep water sourcing local, and help the many people abroad without access to fresh clean water.
Over 700 million people in the world have no access to clean safe drinking water, with around one million women and babies dying each year, due to lack of clean places to give birth.
This has knock-on effects like diseases when washing hands or using toilets (Who Gives a Crap? offers recycled toilet paper, that gives 50% of profits to fund clean toilets abroad).
Every 2 minutes a child under 5 dies, from diarrhoea caused by dirty water. And climate change is making things worse (Reform UK does not believe in taking action on climate change, so more children would die, to create fossil fuel profits).
Belu Water Filtration Systems
Star of the show is Belu’s water filtration systems. These enable you to serve up fresh filtered water, without needing to buy any bottles or cans for staff, customers or patients. There are over 70 wholesalers that you can order from, listed on the website.
The company offers a range of machines, and can provide filtered water both front and back of house, with marketing materials and user instructions for staff. It also offers water dispensers for offices, meeting rooms, restaurants and restrooms.
There are options for chilled, still, sparkling and hot water available. Free-flowing filtered water also can boost revenues, as you will not be buying in bottled water for your business.
Bottled and Canned Waters
The still and sparkling mineral waters are from Powys (Wales) in glass bottles (if you want plastic, there are recycled plastic bottles available, just be sure to recycle them to avoid litter). Same with any plastic packaging.
Alternatively, you can serve up water in cans made of 68% recycled aluminium.
You don’t have to crush cans, but do pop the ring-pulls back over holes before recycling, to avoid wildlife getting trapped.
Natalie Campbell (Belu’s CEO)
Natalie Campbell is the CEO of Belu Water, and what an inspiration she is! This young black woman is not only helping to provide clean fresh water to countries that need it, but even stood for London Mayor in 2024, receiving the most votes for an independent candidate.
Her policies for London included creating 10 new neighbourhood centres in each borough, that would be home to 1300 police officers. No doubt someone who would have been pleased is TV presenter Selina Scott, who at age 74, was recently mugged in broad daylight by a group of smartly-dressed men.
She had to walk miles after the attack (they stole her purse, so she had no money) because the local police station had closed down four years ago. And the planned visit to her the next day was cancelled, due to lack of a police car.
Frank Water (refill stations to help others)
Frank Water works with communities to change that picture. Its focus is simple and strong, providing refill stations for offices, pubs and restaurants across the UK, which reduce plastic and then uses profits to provide clean safe water in developing countries, mostly for children in India.
