The Drinking Fountain Association welcomes applications for grants to help fund projects that fall within its objectives. In 2010 the Association’s grants totalled £31,596. In principle the Association allocates about one-third of its net income to overseas projects. For cost effectiveness these donations are channelled through UK registered charities. Based on the merits of grant applications the Committee makes a monetary award ranging from £50 to £3000.

Over the years the Association has recognised a need for supplying fountains to schools throughout the United Kingdom. The Association typically gifts a Novus drinking fountain to a school on the condition that the school pays £50 to join the Association. During 2010 55 fountains were allocated to schools.

Drinking Fountain Association 2010 Financial Highlights
The Committee made 6 overseas grants during the year the largest of which were as follows:

 Spiti Project
A grant of £2,000 was awarded to install a drinking fountain including a water supply system and cattle trough at Mane Village in the Spiti Valley in India. This project works with the Tibetan communities living in exile.
Teso Development Trust
A grant of £1,400 was awarded to fund a hand dug well for the people of Oodon Village in Kyere ,Uganda. The well will be used by 550 people per day.
Appropriate Technology Asia
A grant of £2,500 was awarded to provide safe drinking water in Anjuli Samuha in Nepal. ATA have designed a low-cost drinking water system that is gravity fed. The grant will be used to install pipe work and will be used by approximately 2,850 people and 1,700 livestock per day.
Salvation Army
A grant of £1,500 was awarded to fund the construction of a borehole in Mashawa New Chipata ,Zambia. They also expect to be able to establish a community vegetable garden and build a school and clinic.
Resolve
A grant of £2,000 was awarded to supply 7 standpipes from an existing water supply. This will benefit 121 people who currently have to walk 40 mins to collect water. This project is in Baglung District of Nepal.
Dhaka Ahsania Mission
A grant of £2,000 was awarded to partly fund the installation of 5 community-managed pumps and filtering system. This will provide safe drinking water to approx 6,250 people living in the arsenic contaminated area of Jessore District in West Bangladesh. Each installation will benefit 250 households.


Details of the Associations finances are presented in the 151th Annual Report attached below

The Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association 151th Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2010