The founder of charity One Water has visited Bristol Airport’s World Duty Free shop to raise awareness of the millions of people around the world without access to clean drinking water.
The event was part of Duncan Goose’s round-Britain motorbike tour to visit World Duty Free outlets in airports to also thank their staff in person for their support.
The travel retail group is a major stockist of One Water bottled water and a backer of the firm’s One Foundation.
The tour kicked off at Stansted Airport before Duncan made his way north to Edinburgh and Aberdeen. His visit to Bristol Airport came ahead of the tour’s final stop at Heathrow.
Duncan, pictured, far left, at Bristol Airport’s World Duty Free shop, a former marketing agency director, was inspired to launch One Water after a round-the-world motorbike trip took him through a deadly hurricane in Honduras in 1998.
The disaster, which was responsible for killing 20,000 people and also limited access to drinking water for survivors – led him to establish one of the UK’s first ‘purpose-led brands’.
The simple founding mission was to donate profits from sales of bottled water to fund clean water projects, with the name coming from the fact that, at the time, 1bn people were living without access to clean water.
Since then, the charity has given away £25m and helped 4m people – and is now hoping to raise £30m by 2030.
Duncan said: “Thanks to the ongoing support for the One Foundation since 2006 from the UK’s leading travel retailer World Duty Free, all its staff and to all the customers who have switched to One Water, we are changing people’s lives.”
He used his original world-trip motorbike to ride around the UK visiting World Duty Free shops to thank them personally, pictured above.
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