FreeIT - Stafford.

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Our volunteer tech guys have fixed up and rehomed 1,707 of your unwanted and broken gadgets since January 2021, with another 18 booked for next week

But where did they go?

Easier to show you...

 

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Last month our volunteer tech guys fixed up and rehomed another 59 of your unwanted and broken internet-ready gadgets, taking our total to 1,727.
Here's where they went:

 

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If you ever fancied a 45 year old escort...
Joe, owner of our funding partner Midland VW, is in to just that sort of thing, and has started a YouTube venturing in to the world of classic rallying.
Please do show your support!
(Then we can start tapping him for ad revenue)
https://www.youtube.com/@SmokingJoesRacing

 

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8 laptop batteries and some random necessities.
We're always transparent about where your donations go, and these are all with thanks once again to our super cool sponsors

If you can help us with expenses like these in our upcoming 5th year, we'd love to hear from you

6 of those batteries have already gone in to laptops and have been rehomed, currently creating new opportunities from what would have been e-waste, and it's all thanks to you

 

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Huge thanks again to our friends at Staffordshire County Council and their brilliant initiative Waste Savvy Staffordshire.
We're given first dibs on your unwanted gadgets and parts at Stafford and Cannock tip, and last year we were able to change 70 lives and build a full gaming PC to raffle, solely as a result of those collections.
Look for our logo or speak to staff!
We're looking for volunteers to help us out with these collections and others further afield, drop us a line if you're free, mobile, and know your tech

 

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A lovely mention on the NHS - MPFT Digital Strategy newsletter!
Thanks so much for partnering with us

If your business or organisation is looking to dispose of end-of-service tech, we can offer secure erase certificates to HMG standard IS5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infosec_Standard_5
See the full article here: https://www.mpft.nhs.uk/about-us/la...poverty-make-life-better-communities-we-serve

 

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Big thanks to our friends at Staffordshire County Council's tireless community support teams for allowing us to reach so many digitally disadvantaged families and individuals.

 

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How cool are our sponsors, seriously though.
In our last financial year they enabled us to spend £740 on SSD hard drives to give antique equipment a new lease of life and turn e-waste into new opportunities.
An SSD upgrade is one of the easiest ways we can modernise archaic devices, but we get through these like sweets, and the costs soon rack up.
If you can help we welcome your sponsorships or even a collaboration with a business that supplies SSD's and who might like to bung us a few every so often, you know, for free.

 

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So far this month our volunteer tech guys have fixed up and rehomed another 34 of your unwanted and broken internet-ready gadgets, two for every day!

Here's where they went:

 

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With your kind support our volunteer tech guys have fixed up and rehomed 1,765 of your unwanted and broken internet-ready gadgets since January 2021

We can't begin to imagine the actual number of lives these have changed where they've been used communally.
Just LOOK what you did

 

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And we're done for Year 4.
We're pausing now for a couple of days to let any pending bank transactions catch up, but on Monday we'll be crunching the financials for Year 4, and starting Year 5.
Our closing number is 1,773

Good job everyone, good job.

 

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As promised, and as transparent as always, here is our accounts run-down for 02/2024 to 02/2025. Onward bound in to our year 5!

Don't forget we're totally funded by you, the people at home who want to help us make a difference, and kind business owners who pay our biggest bills every month.

If you'd like to join the party please visit www.freeitstafford.org/funding

 

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This last month our volunteer tech guys have fixed up and rehomed another 45 of your unwanted and broken internet-ready gadgets, taking our total since January 2021 to 1,778

Here's where they went:

 

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It's thanks to you lovely people that we're about to completely change 5 more lives, and here's how.
The 5th one though >sob<

 

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THIS is how we change the world

 

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We couldn't do any of this without you all
These laptop batteries we've bought today will be used to restore e-waste gadgets to factory condition for their new owners, and it's all thanks to your kind donations

 

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What we have here is a heap of laptops donated by you lovely people, about to be fitted with spangly new batteries paid for by you lovely people, which can then go on to change 6 lives.
Reminder - you all are super kind