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Futurepump Round-Up of the Year – 2021

POSTED ON December 23rd, 2021 Freya Herman

What a year! The holiday season is always a good time to take a moment and reflect back on 2021 and think about our plans for 2022.  It’s been another very busy and exciting year at Futurepump, building on the opportunities and challenges of last year and developing our work even further.  Here are some […]

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Meet the Futurepump inventor – Gert Jan Bom

POSTED ON June 9th, 2021 Helen Yapp

Go behind the scenes at Futurepump with our solar pump inventor Gert Jan Bom and hear about his motivations, design process and what’s next…! […]

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Talking innovation and clean technology with Sanjoy Sanyal

POSTED ON May 4th, 2021 Helen Yapp

In this podcast hosted by Sanjoy Sanyal, our Managing Director discusses the origin of Futurepump and our company culture […]

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Futurepump featured in The Times

POSTED ON March 11th, 2021 Helen Yapp

Featured in The Times Newspaper in 2021, our Managing Director Toby Hammond discussed our customers, climate change, the benefits of solar-powered irrigation and explained why we have chosen to buck the trend and seek investment through a crowdfund. […]

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Inside the R&D workshop at PRACTICA in the Netherlands

A trip to PRACTICA, home of ideas and innovations

POSTED ON March 16th, 2020 Collins Oluoch

Futurepump solar water pumps are the result of extensive R&D work conducted in The Netherlands with our partner PRACTICA. […]

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Futurepump staff members photographs from climate strikes in Kenya and the UK

From cyclones to climate strikes, what a year 2019 has been

POSTED ON December 20th, 2019 Helen Yapp

Futurepump now has distributors in 15 countries and over 7,000 smallholder farmers are benefiting from free energy irrigation. […]

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Meet The Team – Freya Herman

POSTED ON September 30th, 2017 Freya Herman

As well as chatting with potential customers across the world, most of my days are spent analysing our communications impact and content… […]

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Meet the Team – Brian Marsh

POSTED ON May 31st, 2017 Helen Yapp

Brian is Futurepump’s Sales Director – so if you are interested in distributing Futurepump’s solar water pump, speak to Brian! […]

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Meet the Team – Jitendra Lakhani

POSTED ON February 28th, 2017 Helen Yapp

Name: Jitendra Lakhani Job title: Head – India Operations How long have you been at Futurepump? Since 2014 Describe a usual day: I start my day working from home between 6:30 and 9:30 (intermittently!). I then head to the office at the factory; here I work between 10:00 and 19:00 with an hours lunch break. […]

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Meet the Team – Toby Hammond

POSTED ON January 4th, 2017 Helen Yapp

One of the things I love is there is no “usual day” at Futurepump. We are very lucky to have a bunch of fantastic people who are passionate
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Meet the Team – Martina

POSTED ON November 30th, 2016 Helen Yapp

Martina is Futurepump’s product manager based in Kenya. She deals with all after-sales support and technical challenges in the field.
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Meet the Team – Helen Davies

POSTED ON October 31st, 2016 Helen Yapp

To me it just seems like such an obvious solution to a challenge many small-scale farmers are facing – it is fantastic to be able promote it. […]

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Meet The Team – Gert Jan Bom

POSTED ON September 30th, 2016 Helen Yapp

I’ll be at the office at 7, deal with emails till about 9. Then I discuss current affairs and crazy ideas with whoever drops by my desk! […]

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Meet The Team – Quentin Baynes

POSTED ON August 31st, 2016 Helen Yapp

The objective of the business is something that I really care about and I enjoy working with people who are also passionate and committed […]

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Meet The Team – Jigisha Bawishi

POSTED ON July 29th, 2016 Helen Yapp

Job title: Head of Administration, India. How long have you been at Futurepump? Since 2014! What do you like best about Futurepump? […]

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