FreeIT - Stafford.

pinky

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Guys I just wanted to say what a fantastic job your doing and to keep up the good work. Unfortunately I don't have any suggestions but I think what you are doing for the community is great!
 

FreeITstafford

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Huge thanks everyone for your tags, shares, and suggestions, we've now delivered all 8 of these to their new home at Life Church Stafford where they will now start their new lives bridging the digital divide in the Highfields community πŸ™‚
 

FreeITstafford

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A massive thank you to the lovely staff and I.T. people at Berkswich C of E Primary School, for your large donation of surplus PC's and monitors from your computer suite!
They have all been blessed with the touch of our tech wizards, wiped clean of all the old documents, given a good internal dusting out and some fresh parts, and now they will be good to go for another few years. We've already rehomed 8 systems to Life Church Stafford and 2 more to Staffordshire Treatment and Recovery Service where they can serve a new purpose helping deprived families get online, instead of becoming e-waste!
Today's deliveries to these two great causes mark our 290th refurbishment
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Thanks again to everyone who's contributed to help us buy parts and consumables to make this happen!
 

FreeITstafford

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Do you have any of these laying around in a junk drawer?
We're a bit short, so if you do, please think of us before you throw them away!
-PC mice (wired or wireless)
-VGA monitor leads (the familiar blue ended ones)
-IEC standard mains leads ("kettle leads")

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FreeITstafford

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Here's something you might not realise
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Our tech guys had been running this project at the Signpost Centre for many years, long before we became "Free I.T."!
We've only counted Free I.T.'s numbers since we formed in January, but if we were to include all those we helped previously, we reckon we would be tickling a THOUSAND
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FreeITstafford

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Woohoo...
After a bit of a faff, being "reviewed by Google" SEVERAL times, and having to do things the old fashioned way by sending letters, we finally secured our own Google business page. We'll now have a dedicated panel pop up on a Google search, and appear on Google maps.
More to the point, it means you can now leave us a Google review so we can start building our star rating.
Look us up
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FreeITstafford

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We smashed another milestone
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We totted up all the devices we've refurbished and rehomed this week, and completely blew away our end of year target. We'll have to rethink that, but can we, can we really make it 365 by the end of the year, one for every single day?
It's your kind donations of unwanted equipment, and cash bungs to help us with repair parts and running costs, that allow us to make this happen, so many people are benefitting from your generosity and we're honoured to be a part of it
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If you like what we're doing please prevent us from ever resting by buying us a shot of caffeine at www.ko-fi.com/freeitstafford

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FreeITstafford

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Can you help us buy some parts?
We don't have main stream funding, so we rely on your kind donations to help us buy replacement parts to revive even the most broken equipment, while we provide the repair skills for free.
It can cost us up to Β£50 to replace laptop parts to bring each one back to working order, still an awful lot cheaper than taking it to a shop, and a much better solution than writing it off to landfill, but we can't do that without you.
Please consider making a small donation, pennies make pounds, and without those there's no way we'd have been able to help so many great causes already.
We're always looking for long term sponsors to work with us for community benefit, but you can pledge any amount, any time, by sending a "friends and family" payment at our paypal link :)
www.paypal.me/freeitstafford

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FreeITstafford

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Pleasure meeting the team at Chase Aqua Rural Enterprise to hand over some refurbished kit to help their disadvantaged clients get online, and to hear all about the great work they are doing. Please pop over and follow their facebook!
It's your kind donations of unwanted equipment and your help towards our parts and running costs that allow us to make this happen, so thank you all for enabling these vital community links which are benefitting so many people.
If you like what we're doing please prevent us from ever resting by sending us a shot of caffeine via www.ko-fi.com/freeitstafford

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FreeITstafford

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We have a couple of projects in the pipeline, and for those we need to make an initial appeal to you lovely people for any of these (quite niche) items that you may have in a drawer or may be considering an upgrade to your own which will leave the originals as surplus.
Sadly we can't tell you too much about it as you'll gather by the nature of the items we need, but what we can tell you is that it will all be going to community buildings to protect I.T. equipment we've installed, as unfortunately we have been met with some damage
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-CCTV cameras (internal or external, wired, wireless, we'll try anything)
-Digital Video Recorders (DVR's) for CCTV, either coax or PoE, again we'll try anything
-CAT5 or CAT6 UTP cable
Please let us know if you can help with these items or consider making a donation to go towards buying what we need, at www.paypal.me/freeitstafford

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FreeITstafford

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If it's going begging we can try it out and all being lost we can cash in the parts, but ideally we're looking for proper cctv recorders as they have multiple recording channels and also, importantly, imprint the time and date in the picture
 

FreeITstafford

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Our updates may have been slacking just lately, but we are definitely hard at it behind the scenes :)
We're still working on our big project with Holmcroft YCC, to give them all the connectivity and I.T. resources they could ever need, and additionally we're refurbishing their digital CCTV system (because we do that too!). One day every week our guys are on site working for free progressing the project and dealing with any spurious repairs brought in by the public.
We're spending some time revisiting one of our very first recipients too, to help them rebuild and resecure after they'd suffered some damage to the equipment we'd provided.
We're also busy working on another 6 desktop machines which we'll be allocating really soon, and we've got another 4 fixed up laptops heading off to their new homes, where they are desperately needed, this week, which will bring our total allocations to 314 complete refurbished devices in less than a year :)
If you like what we're doing please prevent us from resting by supplying us with a shot of caffeine at www.ko-fi.com/freeitstafford where you also now have the option to subscribe and automatically buy us a brew every month :)
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
I may have some more stuff going spare soon, as I need to move all my IT stuff rom around the house into one room and it's the perfect time to downsize. Is there somewhere I can just drop it off? And can I drop off anything and you'll bin what isn't of use? It will all be PC stuff, just that I suspect I have things from many years ago lurking about. Just spotted an android TV stick that must be nearing it's tenth birthday, an old router, likely a fair few cables especially USB.

I already donated a lot of my more obvious equipment, this will all be bits and pieces.
 

FreeITstafford

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Can you help us buy some parts?
We see a lot of devices donated with broken keyboards and screens, dead batteries and unsafe chargers, so we always replace those before we send them to their new homes.
We've gained quite a backlog of devices waiting for parts and we'd really like to get those reallocated instead of gathering dust.
We don't get main stream funding so we rely on your help to pay for those bits, while we'll continue to provide the repair skills for free.
With parts for each device costing anything between Β£10 and Β£50 and sometimes more, we just aren't able to buy those things out of our own pockets for every broken device (although we often do).
If you can help, please pledge as much as you wish using the "friends and family" option on our PayPal page (if you choose "goods and services" PayPal will scalp your donation for their fees).
Pennies make pounds, so even the smallest of contributions is very welcome and we promise it will all go to good use.
Thank you again to all of you who are already contributing regularly, and please spread the word, we're always looking to make relationships with local businesses who'd like to sponsor some of our running costs
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