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Top Chefs ‘Chop & Chat’ with us about climate conscious cooking
Belu and WaterAid launch a new sustainability campaign for World Water Week, with enlightening research into consumer thinking. In the new ‘Chop & Chat’ video


Belu launches partnership with Thames21
Belu has formed a new partnership with Thames21 which aligns with our commitment to investing in nature based solutions and funding impact projects around UK


Belu takes home Great Taste 2023 award for Classic Tonic Water
Judged by the experts, our Classic Tonic Water was awarded a Great Taste star in world’s most coveted food and drink awards. Described as ‘refreshing’


Going with the flow…
By Eve Owen I’m absolutely thrilled that I made the switch to join Belu. From the very beginning I had a great feeling about this


Belu delivered to your doorstep via Milk & More – Again and again.
When it comes to living more sustainably and ultimately creating a circular economy, ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ (in that order) is a mantra that really makes


Belu named ‘Green Company of the Year’ at The Drinks Business Asian Awards
Belu was named Green Company of the Year at this year’s drinks business Asian Awards. We are ecstatic to win this coveted category at the


Purpose-full work: why Belu is my ikigai
By Lisa Ellwood, Growth Programmes Lead What is your ikigai? Your purpose in life? And how will you know when you’ve found it? I’m writing this


Why Does Belu have 2 CEOs?
At Belu we strive to prove there is a different and better way to do business. Why be conventional when you can be exceptional? One
The DNA of BELU
At Belu we don’t have traditional corporate values. We’re driven by our purpose: to change the way the world sees water by 2030. It’s a


World Water Day 2023 🌍 The Highlights 💧
On World Water Day we announced our new net profit figure – £5.5m to WaterAid since 2011. The United Nations theme for this year’s World


Why We’re Still Backing (recycled) Plastic
Belu’s previous CEO Karen Lynch addressed the issue of using plastics back in 2019 in her blog here, but as this was over 3 years


Jen: MY FIRST 3 MONTHS AS CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP LEAD
By Jennifer Turnbull After 2 years of working as a Communications Manager for a local authority supporting communities through Covid and the cost of living


Nahema: My first 6 months as Customer Relationship Lead
By Nahema Cissoko At 7 months in, I now feel fully immersed in Team Belu. Coming from a completely different industry, it has been a


Belu team up with artist Venessa Scott to bring a splash of colour to Borough on World Water Day
To highlight World Water Day and raise funds for WaterAid, we have teamed up with award winning Mancunian artist Venessa Scott, who will paint a


Our Purpose
Belu is a drinks business that puts people and the environment first. Our purpose is to change the way the world sees water by 2030.


Changing the way the world sees water? It’s working for me
Brand Director Erica reflects on her enlightening first few months with Belu. So it turns out that having a daughter starting secondary school gets you


Believing in our purpose (and me)
Belu is such a unique company in so many ways, and when I was asked to write a blog about my time at Belu, after


‘Water Means Life’ WaterAid winter appeal
From November 2022 to February 2023 our impact partner WaterAid is running a winter appeal ‘Water Means Life’ focussing on health workers in Mozambique. Nurses,


Green credentials, not greenwash
By Georgie Murray “Provenance began out of a personal frustration for how little we know about the things we buy.” Those are the words of


On the edge of eighteen
By Georgie Murray Last week, coworking experts x+why opened their first clubspace at 103 Colmore Row, in the heart of Birmingham’s business district. x+why offer


Green Tea for Go…
By Mark Jacobs Firstly, a huge thank you is in order to Pranav, Rebecca and the NEMI Teas team for hosting our first ‘Project 101’


World Water Week 2022
When clean water flows at the turn of a tap, it’s all too easy to take it for granted. But globally, there are still 771


A lot of ‘firsts’…
By Rebecca Blair Well, it’s been almost 4 months at Belu and it’s been 4 months of firsts. During my second week on the job,


What is world environment day?
By Aaima Ali What is Environment Day? We are living in exceptional times, times in which nature is reminding us that to take


Beginning at Belu
By Aaima Ali My first month at Belu has been an eye-opener in so many ways. I’ve joined the company at a very exciting


Contemplations and reflections of my start at Belu
By Josie Fuller The first email I had waiting for me in my inbox on my first day at Belu was the instruction to write


What does Earth Day mean to me today?
By Katja Mildner How do I feel about our earth, our home, today? I have to be honest, I am struggling to find positive


Why is Belu like a cauliflower?
By Luke Tullo Inspired by Earth Day 2022, I’m choosing to think about how my diet affects the climate crisis. Changing what and how you


Thoughts as I embark on my new Belu Journey…
By Lucy Keith I recently attended a training session at one of our new filtration customers Apricity, alongside my colleague Micky. Having spent my


Why Water?
By Natalie Campbell Imagine, you wake up one day, walk into the bathroom to brush your teeth…there is no water. You open the toilet seat.


A day in the life…
By Micky Wells I’m quite lucky a person really. In my job I get to meet interesting people, visit cool restaurants and get plenty of


Blog of a CO-CEO
By Charlotte Harrington “Know what you want. Follow a trajectory where what you want is a possible outcome. Build a system to incrementally improve


My Belu Journey
By Nolan Wright I am writing this blog to take time to reflect on my time at Belu and the seven World Water Days


A woman in water
By Claire Pearson “This project has given me dignity” Those words and the scene will stay with me forever. It was 2013, I


Changing Reflections of World Water Day
By Jan Roberts Having worked at Belu for 3 years (an environmental drinks business who puts both people and planet first), it will come as


Belu Hong Kong wins food made good, supplier of the year award
Lockdown, it wasn’t all bad for Belu. During 2020 when we were in semi-lockdown in the UK, an email came in from The Upper House,


COP a load of this…
You might have missed this (we hope not) but a timely event is happening in Glasgow, Scotland which will bring together leaders from around the


Belu at the Independent Hotel Show 2021
Belu was hydrating speakers on the stage this week at The Independent Hotel Show in Olympia, London. A particularly pertinent session we listened to


Report finds Businesses not doing enough to achieve the SDGs
Since 2015, when the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all United Nations member states, many businesses have pledged to play their part


Hospitality and the pandemic: 20 months on
Belu recently partnered with CODE Hospitality and the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) on an inaugural ‘purpose in hospitality’ survey. After more than a year of


Celebrating 10 years of Belu and WaterAid
This June marked ten years of our partnership with WaterAid, the experts in delivering clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene to everyone, everywhere. Since


Welcome to the Team, Micky
Micky Wells recently joined the business development team here at Belu to get more people drinking the difference in the on-trade. Here, he has taken


Put positive change on tap this Refill Day
Wednesday 16th June marks World Refill Day – a day all about choosing reusable options over single-use packaging. UK consumers are thought to go through


Meet our finance business partner, Katja
Wow, where has the last month gone? I started at Belu at the beginning of April 2021 just before the Easter weekend. On the morning


Goodbye lockdown, hello Hong Kong
At Belu, as a social enterprise and a purpose-led business, we believe, that all businesses can be a force for good. But back in March


Our Profit
Every business has a choice; profit from society with no give-back, or invest profits in putting the environment first and transforming lives. For Belu it


Our Products
“In our post-crisis world, we are seeing consumers becoming more mindful about the consequences of their choices.” EY Future Consumer Index With lots of brands


Our People
“For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.” Tony Hsieh, Former CEO of Zappos People are the lifeblood of Belu. Our team, suppliers, partners and


Belu Sky Thinking
“So Sal, how’s the new job going?” – this is the question that I’ve been asked constantly over the last three weeks, since joining Belu.


Our 2020 Impact Report
Today is World Water Day and almost a year since our world was turned upside down. The past 12 months have been a challenge for