Can You Help Save The Champagne of the Malvern Hills?
Malvern’s popular spring water collection site holds underground secrets. Help us uncover the story beyond Evendine’s spout to restore and protect Malvern Spring water.
Following a productive visit to Evendine Spring with Malvern Hills Trust, we’re making real progress in understanding the challenges facing the spring. Their expertise and collaborative approach has been invaluable, and together we’re identifying practical solutions to help secure Evendine’s future.
While Malvern Hills Trust explores solutions to roadside parking and drainage issues, the Malvern Spa Association is focusing on the spring’s historic water collection system.
We know there’s an intricate network of Victorian culverts, drains and steel pipes beneath the eastern side of Jubilee Drive but exactly how it all connects remains uncertain. Understanding this hidden infrastructure is the key to identifying any issues affecting the spring’s water quality and ensuring the system can be protected for years to come.
To do this, we’ll need specialist investigations to locate and assess the underground infrastructure. Alongside this, historic maps, archives and records will help us piece together the story of this remarkable engineering network.
This is where our amazing Malvern community comes in.
How can you help?
Help us to secure funding
Specialist investigations don’t come cheaply, so we’re looking for volunteers to help prepare grant applications.
You don’t need to be an expert in grant writing! Just a passion for the Malvern Hills, an enthusiasm for storytelling, and a desire to help protect our unique water heritage.
Become a Heritage Detective
We’re also looking for volunteers to research Evendine’s fascinating history. By exploring historic maps, library collections, council archives and old records, you’ll help us uncover how the Victorian water system was built and how it functions today.
Every archive explored, every map uncovered and every story discovered brings us one step closer to protecting Evendine Spring.
The Malvern community has an incredible wealth of knowledge, passion and talent. If you’ve ever wanted to play a part in preserving the Hills’ unique water heritage, now is your chance. By volunteering, you will be a part of a community taking their town’s heritage in their own hands. MSA volunteers are a group with a diversity of talents, ages, backgrounds, interests and each one is essential for conserving Malvern water heritage, well restoration and access to spring water.