Tameside Community Computers CIC

Tomorrow we will be heading to London for @ISPAUK awards we have been shortlisted for the best digital inclusion initiative in UK for 2023 let’s all keep our fingers crossed! @GMCAdigital @OldhamCouncil @TamesideCouncil @TamesideCorr @tamesideradio @newsintameside

This Christmas we’re heading to rural Uganda to support 250 children with gifts & education. We’ll sleep in mud huts, off-grid for 10 days. Huge thanks to @BensonMH97 for donating £1,000 + signed boots 🙌 👉 justgiving.com/crowdfunding/t… #SponsorAGirl #UgandaOutreach #GirlsEdu

We are excited to announce we have been shortlisted as finalist at the @TechForTechs awards 2024 to the following categories: Tech for Tech community expert Best refurbished tech Best use of social media Thank you to everyone that voted for us.

Last night we won an award for Green Impact business of the Year at The Pride of Tameside Business Awards

We would like to thank @BennettVerby for their huge donation of tech devices to help us to help others living in digital poverty and to tackle E-Waste

We would like to thank @AptusUtilities for their recent donation of 10 x Laptops and 25 x Smart Phones. These will now be securely data wiped and then go through our refurbishment process to then hopefully be given a new lease of life for somebody else to use.

We would like to make a huge Thank You to @RidgeLLP who have made a £500 donation to our organisation. This will make a huge difference and allow us to buy parts for approx 20 laptops that have been sat patiently waiting to be repaired ready to go back out.

To try and get more people and businesses to donate their old or unwanted tech we are running this, for each item donated you will get a raffle ticket to be in with chance to win one of three prizes. You will be helping others gain access to tech and reduce E-Waste.

We would like to thank @careerconedu from Liverpool, @GrowthHiveUK from Bolton & @Steve_Photomad from Mobile PC Rescue in Droylsden for donating their surplus to requirements tech devices. If you have any devices that you can donate enquiries@tamesidecc.org or 0161 553 0060

We would like to take the opportunity to thank William Paterson & Andy Watts from @TCL_Europe for their huge donation of 18 Tablets & 31 mobile phones. These will go along way of helping people within our communities that are living in digital poverty.

We need your old tech, we can add social value to your business and help you reach your carbon footprint goals. We securely wipe all data using ADISA and NCSC approved software.

We have been at Festival Hall today in Denton to receive a Community Group Hero’s award for the voluntary work we do supporting people in the Denton Community. Thank you to @Cllrdeniseward we had a fantastic afternoon with coffee and cakes and networking.

📣 @OldhamCouncil launch Donate IT Oldham 💻Helping Oldham's most vulnerable residents, providing them with donated devices refurbished by @TamesideCic, with an aim to collect more than 500 devices in its first year ➡️theoldhamtimes.co.uk/news/24129722.… #FixTheDigitalDivide

Combatting digital divide in Wirral with laptop donation scheme birkenhead.news/combatting-dig… @TamesideCic @connectmycareer

Today we donated 19 x Laptops to @TeamRushbrook which will enable 19 children in Year 6 improve their education in readiness for High School this donation was part funded by @KFCfoundation these children are young carers, at risk of homelessness. tamesidecc.org

We now have a more modern logo we hope you all like it and we feel it describes what we do better.

Excited that we’ve received grant funding from the @KFCfoundation with the aim of empowering young people to fulfil their potential in Tameside & Oldham. Thanks to the KFC for recognising our work in helping build a positive future for young people in communities across the UK.

This is how it all began on 17th January 2021, 3 years on and this digital divide this even more apparent, we still need devices to help people living in digital poverty, if you or your business have any devices to donate please email enquiries@tamesidecc.org

We would like to thank @AptusUtilities & @armedforceshq for donating their unused computer equipment. If your company can help us to help others please email enquiries@tamesidecc.org or call 0161 553 0060 to arrange a free collection.