by Edwin Broni-Mensah
Similar schemes are in place around the world, including England where, under the ‘Give me Tap' campaign, consumers can take reusable bottles to several restaurants and have them refilled free of charge.
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GiveMeTap lets consumers in the UK refill their water bottles for free at participating cafés. Beginning in Manchester, GiveMeTap has signed up numerous restaurants and cafés willing to supply free access to clean tap water; said providers can be located via PC or smartphone using GiveMeTap's mapping service. In order to partake, consumers need to be carrying one of GiveMeTap's branded aluminium bottles, which are priced at GBP 7. GiveMeTap uses 70 percent of the profits from those sales to fund independent water projects in regions where they're most needed.
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There are few things more satisfying than seeing a good idea spread, and that's just what we had occasion to witness recently. Just as TapIt lets New Yorkers refill their water bottles for free at participating cafés, so GiveMeTap does much the same for those in the UK.
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Other students want to do good as well as be entrepreneurial, such as Edwin Broni-Mensah, a maths PhD student at Manchester University. He established GiveMeTap, an enterprise that has created a network of cafes that give free tap water to people who carry a reusable aluminium bottle, which students buy for £7. Turnover this year is £8,000, of which 70 per cent goes to water charities around the world. "When I began my PhD, my aim was to go into investment banking," says Broni-Mensah. "Now I want to join a start-up company – I've got the entrepreneurial bug."
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A Manchester-based start-up has found a way to help restaurants and cafés boost their client base at the same time as helping people on the go have access to fresh water for free in an environmentally friendly way.
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A YOUNG entrepreneur from Manchester University has been awarded £1,000 by Shell LiveWIRE's Grand Ideas programme to help him develop his business called GiveMeTap. Edwin Broni-Mensah, 24, has founded a business that enables users of a specially-branded GiveMeTap bottle to get free tap water refills from a network of cafés and restaurant owners in the Manchester area.
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