Appeal for laptops to help local communities

I WOULD like to appeal to local readers for any redundant, broken or outdated laptops.

At our local community centre and local 30-year-old registered charity we have a project we have run from our workshop, which we built nine years ago with funding from The Sir James Reckitt Trust.

The project was set up to help people on low incomes to have access to IT and is run by a mixture of our staff volunteers and (some students from Hull College when terms are running).

Since the start of the project we have repaired, renewed and/or upgraded laptops and provided them at very low or no cost to many local people, mostly in west Hull. Literally thousands of devices from our centre in West Parade Spring Bank.

Since the start of the pandemic we have been privileged with a little help from the National Lottery and others to purchase dead laptops to renew and repair them prior to donating them to our local junior school, where we donated 30 last year, womens aid centres, care homes and to many elderly, disabled or lonely people living at home, who we supplied free with some form of connectivity, including in some cases dongles for internet connectivity and portals to keep in touch with relatives and friends near and far.

We have managed to continue to carry out our service on a small scale to deserving people in a safe manner throughout most periods of the lockdown.

We have had redundant laptops and equipment donated from some schools and even P&O Ferries in the past, but we welcome them from any source and we guarantee that any info on machines on receipt by us will be completely removed to ensure it cannot be passed on.

Donations saves us buying dead machines and allows us to make best use of our limited funding. Donating machines to us also helps by saving the environment in a small way.

Anyone wishing to donate, please call 01482 323483 between 9am and 3pm, Monday to Friday.

Our website is sbca.org.uk, where you can see who we are and what we do.

Femcconaghy,