Our joy over laptop donations

This summer, we were thrilled to receive a donation of 16 laptops, 6 monitors and lots of other admin resources for young neurodiverse people in our community to use, thanks to Business2Schools and We Collect Limited. This generous donation will enable us to provide laptops for all of the students in our alternative provision, which will be starting next month on 4th November.

Sonay Ozkutayli, our co-founder, said: “We would like to thank these two lovely organisations who were so excited and happy to support The Neurodiversity Family Hub. The equipment we have received will make a real difference to young neurodiverse people.”

We are in turn inspired by the missions of these organisations and would like to repay their generosity to us by sharing a bit about what they each do with our community:

With many businesses changing their devices every three to five years, there are often several years of purposeful life remaining in the devices they discard. Business2Schools is a charity that aims to re-purpose businesses’ discarded office infrastructure into educational settings and close the digital divide. Over the last three years, they have re-homed in the region of £30M of furniture and tech that was being replaced in offices, giving it new life in schools and clubs like ours.

We Collect is a family-run business who provide a range of recycling services, as well as holding all of the equipment donated to Business2Schools and facilitating collections by organisations like us. They consider themselves to be Eco Warriors, and operate a strict zero-to-landfill policy as they work to ensure anything with a wire gets recycled as efficiently as possible. They also sell surplus stock on their eBay store – check it out here.

We fully support these great initiatives to reduce waste and protect the planet our children live in, and we look forward to using the equipment we have received from them to better support the digital education of the young neurodiverse people in our community.

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