About Us
Workshops and visits
The Wonderful Water Tour is an innovative educational roadshow created to inspire and educate children across our region all about the wonderful world of water.
We live and breathe water at Severn Trent. Not a day passes without us exploring new ways to source it, look after it and ensure all our customers can enjoy it every day of the year.
Our passionate team of Education Officers are determined to visit every primary school in our region to share this knowledge, offering a range of free activities as well as site visits for primary schools and community groups.
Primary school visits
We offer assembly sessions and workshops. Most schools choose both options as they work well together and help inspire the children.
We know your school may not be able to host assemblies right now, so we’ve adapted our content so it can be safely delivered live remotely or in person.
Our team of educators are experts in making our free sessions interactive, informative and most of all fun, whether they're in person or run through our our new live stream video option.
Interactive buses
Unfortunately, due to the current situation with COVID-19, we’re unable to run our interactive bus experiences.
But we'll bring them back once it's safe to do so.
We can bring our two amazing interactive buses to your school, community centre or local event, helping children from ages 7 to 11 to bring the wonders of water to life.
You can arrange for both buses to come to your event, or just one of them depending on the needs and goal of your event.
You can register your interest in having a visit from our business and our team will get in touch you to discuss what's possible.
While we can't use the buses at events right now, our educators can make plans with you for whenever we're able to get back out on the road again.
The Digibus
The Digibus provides an immersive digital experience.
Put on some virtual reality glasses and enter a world where you can track a raindrop from the sky, through the water treatment process, to the home, back through the sewers and the waste treatment process, before it travels out to the river.
You’ll also be able to play in a virtual Severn Trent world that we’ve created in Minecraft and earn points for demonstrating the correct water and waste water behaviour.
The Experibus
Step into the role of a water worker!
Imagine yourself as a scientist, an engineer, a call centre operative and much more to learn what it’s like to work in the water industry.
You'll be able to play games like ‘flush it or bin it’, ‘leakage twister’ and ‘pipe buzzer’ to learn why we need to value water as a precious resource.
Community groups
We can still offer talks to Community groups, either in person or remotely.
Naturally we’re happy to tailor our workshops and provide talks and presentations geared towards a more adult audience.
These workshops can be used to highlight simple day-to-day changes that will help reduce bills, lower waste and have a positive impact on the environment.
Educational site tours
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, site tours are not possible right now. Sorry if you were hoping to arrange one. We hope to be able to run educational site tours again when it's safe to do so.
Ever wondered how a sewage treatment really works? Or how we turn waste into clean water? Thanks to our education centre in Derby, you’ll soon have more answers than questions.
We offer free site tours to primary schools and adult community groups within our region, providing a behind the scenes look at the inner workings of a treatment works. If you’re a primary school then our only requirement is that you allow us to deliver an assembly to your whole school.
Due to their popularity, availability is strictly limited and pre-booking is absolutely essential. All site tours are run by our education team who’ll discuss the unique requirements of your group prior to confirming the booking.
Contact the education team
If you'd like to book a socially-distanced visit or video workshop or assembly, get in touch with the education team member in your county.
| County | Advisor name | Phone number | Contact online |
| Birmingham and The Black Country | Chris Harper | 07703 718 459 | Contact Chris |
| Derbyshire and Staffordshire | Leanne Town |
07834 420 019 | Contact Leanne |
| Gloucestershire and Warwickshire |
Beth Parker | 07980 725 923 | Contact Beth |
| Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire | Phil Pearce |
07703 718 340 | Contact Phil |
| Shropshire and Worcestershire |
Chris Harper | 07970 304 098 | Contact Chris |
| Senior Education Officer | David Cork |
07500 974 754 | Contact David |
School or college careers events
We try to attend as many careers events at schools and colleges in our region as possible. With so many educational insitutions in our area, we can't always get to every event.
If you're interested in a career in the water industry, and you weren't able to speak to us at a careers event or would just like to know more, please get in touch with us at potential@severntrent.co.uk and we'll answer your questions. We'd love to hear from you!