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Get your tickets – Concert for Aquabox
Supporting this charity is a great way to help us continue our life saving work and what better way to do so during the Wirksworth Arts Festival than attending the Fishpond Choir performing ‘The Circle of Life’ at St Mary’s Church on 12th September 2024 at 7.30pm. Doors open 7pm. Tickets are just £12 and […]
Derbyshire Dales new MP visits Aquabox
After a whirlwind couple of months for John Whitby, the newly elected MP for Derbyshire Dales, John found time in his busy schedule to visit Aquabox this week. John was shown around by Roger Cassidy our chair of trustees, fellow trustee Cheryle Berry and Colin Petty. He had a demonstration of our family filter being […]
Frontline insights, August 2024 – Yemen
Today we have sent our 2nd shipment of 2024 to Yemen. We have been sending aid out to this conflict torn country for a number of years. Since 2015, reporting of the number of fatalities and displaced people is difficult to substantiate, but Yemen remains among the top six largest worldwide, with over 4.5 million […]
Concert for Aquabox – The Circle of Life
September 12th 2024 St Mary,s Church, Wirksworth 7.30pm Wirksworth based Aquabox has been providing humanitarian aid around the world for over 33 years. From earthquakes and hurricanes, to working with refugees fleeing a war zone, Aquabox has sent more than 125,000 aid boxes to more than 50 countries, converting billions of litres of contaminated water […]
Shipment update
This year so far, we have sent aid to Turkey, Syria, Ukraine and Nepal. All shipment details can be found on our website listed below. We are shipping the following aid in the next few weeks: Syria – 250 Aqua-Aid boxes, 240 family filters and 20 community filters- Left 25th July Yemen – 250 Aqua-aid boxes and […]
We’re Hiring
Aquabox is seeking to recruit a Deputy Depot Manager to support its ongoing operations at its headquarters in Wirksworth. Aquabox operates as a community project supported by over 80 volunteers.. Its primary objective is to save lives following natural and man-made disasters by supplying water purification equipment and other aid worldwide to people in dire […]