So that’s us

But who are we? And how did we get here? Like many of the best stories, this one starts in a pub.

It was 2003 when a group of friends gathered together to watch the Grand National in London. It was then that one of them mentioned an article they’d read about the one billion people in the world without access to clean drinking water. Everyone agreed that something needed to be done. Daytime drinking led to some late night thinking, and one bright idea. We would create a brand of bottled water with a difference – we would give all the profit away.

One year on, Duncan Goose quit his job to work on the project full time. It wasn’t easy, but with the support of that original group of friends, our idea started to become a reality. And finally, on 30th May 2005, the first bottles of One Water rolled off the production line.

Gradually our one man and a dog operation started to snowball. It seemed like everyone who heard about our project wanted to help make a difference too. Friends, partners, former colleagues, friends of friends, friends of friends of friends, they all got involved to help in any way they could. These people are our heroes.

And it's not just water anymore. Today we have One Vitamin Enhanced Water, One Careplast plasters, One Eggs organic free range eggs, One Supersofty toilet tissue, One Helping Handwash and One Condoms, all raising money for like-for-like humanitarian issues.

So it’s easy for you to do one good thing.