Clean Water Filter Build CSR Event

Bring your team together around something that matters, then send real water filter kits on to people who need them.

200k+

Participants a year

15+

Years’ Experience

4.7/5

Excellent Rating

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Clean Water Filter Build CSR Event

If you want a CSR day that feels useful, grounded and properly hands on, this is a good one. Your team works in small groups to build real water filtration kits, ready for donation through an agreed charity route.

It’s table based, easy to run in an office or conference room, and built around your people, not their fitness level. No one needs DIY skills. They just need to listen, read the instructions, check each other’s work and get stuck in.

The result is simple and tangible. Each team finishes with a completed filter kit, a tracking record where available, and a clearer sense that their time off the tools has gone somewhere worthwhile.

10 – 1,000+
Indoor / Outdoor
Low Energy
Atmosphere

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Team Building, Problem Solving, Communication, Collaboration, Relaxed, Charity / CSR Objectives

Event Summary.

Clean Water Filter Build is a charity team building event with a proper job at the end of it. Teams assemble water filtration systems using supplied parts, tools and clear instructions, then the completed kits are quality checked and prepared for donation to communities without reliable access to safe drinking water.

We start with a short briefing that explains the water access issue in plain English. More than 2 billion people still don’t have safely managed drinking water, and contaminated water is linked to diseases that most of us rarely have to think about. We don’t labour the point. We give your team the context, then get them building.

People work in teams of 3 to 5 around cabaret style tables. One person might lead the instructions, another handles parts, someone checks the build, and someone records the kit ID or donation details. The best teams slow down just enough to avoid silly mistakes. The noisy teams usually learn that shouting louder isn’t quite the same as communicating.

For groups that want more of a team challenge, we can add a short constraint stage. That might mean limited speaking, a blindfolded helper, or a handover where one half of the team has to brief the other clearly. It’s always optional and we’ll adapt it around access needs. The point is better listening, not making anyone feel awkward.

Once the builds are complete, our facilitators run a quality check before the kits are packed for the next stage. Depending on the charity partner and kit route agreed for your event, teams can record a tracking ID, story number or donation reference. We’ll be straight with you about what can be tracked, what the timeline looks like, and what proof or update you’ll receive afterwards.

This works well because everyone has a role. It suits mixed seniority groups, hybrid teams meeting in person, leadership away days, ESG sessions, induction days and conferences where you want something more useful than another sit down presentation. It’s purposeful, but it still feels like a team activity rather than a lecture.

The standard session runs for 60 to 90 minutes. We can tighten it into a 30 to 60 minute conference energiser, or build it out to 90 to 120 minutes with extra problem solving and reflection. Big group or small, we’ll shape the format to the room, the agenda and how much headspace your team has on the day.

You don’t need specialist kit from the venue. We bring the filter components, tools, instructions, facilitator team, quality check process and donation admin. You provide suitable tables, a clean working area and people who are ready to do something practical. If a venue set up won’t work, we’ll tell you before you book it. Better that than a scramble on the day.

It’s indoor first, which makes life easier for most organisers. Offices, hotels, training rooms and conference suites all work nicely. Outdoor delivery can be done if there are stable tables, cover from the weather and somewhere clean to store materials, but we’ll be honest about whether it’s sensible.

What event leads tell us

Proof from teams who've actually run one.

We have used NewWave Events a couple of times at Kohler. Though we had different event hosts each time both crews were superb, steering the atmosphere and activities with expertise that sets them apart. The activities and equipment were well designed and really helped us improve communications and relationships within our team whilst having fun. Thank you!

Tim Wilkes
Director of Marketing · Kohler

A great company, took all the stress away and managed the whole [event], I didn't need to worry about anything! I'm booking again for next year!

Alex W
5 Star Review
4.7

/ 5

Why our events keep getting booked

Some days you remember. This is one of them. It’s the rare event that lands for every kind of crowd — easy to say yes to, impossible to forget. People walk in as colleagues and leave with stories. That’s why they keep coming back.

98%

re-book

1000+

capacity

200k+

Participants a year
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It's a hands on charity team building session where small teams assemble real water filtration kits for donation. Your team gets a short briefing, builds the kits at tables, records the donation details where tracking is available, and finishes with a debrief on how they worked together.

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