We'll be at Repair Cafe on Saturday 5th November from 10am to 1pm with our PAT test kit.
Feel free to drop in with your small electricals for a free test!
Holmcroft Community Centre, Newland Avenue ST161NL
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Our new home!
You may have noticed that we've changed address 
All of us here at Free I.T. would like to endlessly thank Justine and Nigel and everyone at the Rehome Repurpose project, not only for offering us donation storage space and financial support, but also for now allowing us to use their premises as a…
A speedy result!
** Thank you all! **
Replacing old technology with new allows us to completely transform your aged gadgets, and one of the ways we do that is by replacing old fashioned mechanical hard disks with the latest microchip controlled SSD drives. Doing this can turn the oldest most sluggish laptop into …
Zero to landfill!
Although we have no formal independent certification, as this would involve huge costs, we run our project with a "zero to landfill" policy.
We always try to repair and rehome as much as we can, but inevitably there will be items which we can only use for parts and the remainder has to go somewhe…
The more the merrier!
We're chuffed to welcome on board our newest sponsor, Cowshed Works web design!
As a corporate sponsor we'll splash your advert on our social media and install it on the background of every PC and laptop we rehome, and in addition we'll send you regular spreadsheets so you can visualise how…
Towards the next milestone!
In the last month we've serviced and rehomed another 24 of your unwanted PC's, laptops, tablets, and Apple devices, taking our total so far to 524 :)
500!
In under 18 months we have now serviced and rehomed 500 of your unwanted PC's, laptops, and tablets!
Our delivery yesterday of a laptop to a housebound client of Cerebral Palsy Mid Staffs (CPMS) saw us smash this impressive milestone!
Thank you to everyone who's donated equipment and funds to …
Nearing another milestone!
Since January 2021 we've refurbished and rehomed 494 of your...
- Laptops, netbooks and macbooks (263)
- Android tablets and iPads (70)
- iMacs, desktop PC's and all-in-one PC's (161)
For free!
A 'bug' in our system!
Huge thanks again to Midland VW, Volkswagen specialist in Cannock, who not only sponsored one of our biggest projects in our early days, but who have also now pledged to donate all of their unwanted I.T. equipment!
Rapidly getting closer!
With the addition of 6 units gifted to 2078 Boscobel Air Cadets today, we've now refurbished and handed over a total of 454 internet ready devices since we formed last January :)
And that's not counting the monitors, speaker sets, keyboards and mice that you lovely people have donated to tu…
Back to school!
It's time for another thankyou...
They very kindly allowed us to dig through their surplus I.T. equipment before it's disposed, and we've taken away a pile of kit, some of which we've already rehomed, and some which you'll see popping up on our good n…
Thanks for thinking of us!
More huge thanks due, this time to 848 IT Services at Beaconside.
They thought of us before heading to the tip, and donated a 'sizeable' stack of their redundant equipment for us to refurbish and give away 
www.848.co
A testing time!
To raise our project some extra cash we're now offering PAT testing at £3 per item.
We'll provide a full written certification plus the familiar green stickers.
Get in touch to learn more, or see the "PAT" section here on our website
It's not useless!
Do you have an old iPad that won't update any more, and will no longer run your favourite apps?
Don't take it to the tip, drop it in to us!
Some schools have the ability to re-use them, to install their own educational software, which is compatible with even the older versions of iOS and bypas…
No horsing around!
Massive respects to Vicki and the team at Online For Equine in Hixon, for thinking of us before they headed to the tip...
They've donated a huge stack of their redundant equipment which we'll now put through our secure erase procedure to ensure all of their remaining business data is destroyed, t…
A pause for Easter!
Please note our donation point at Highfields is temporarily closed and will re-open Thurs 21st April
Blankety blank!
* Secure erasing *
A common question we're asked is if, and how, we'll make sure any existing data is erased from your donation. And yes, we do, so please make sure you've taken a back up of your important stuff before you donate, because once it's gone, it's really gone!
As for the how, wel…
New sponsors!
We've added some new corporate sponsors to our paid advertising initiative, we'll use their contributions to help us pay for some of the costs we simply can't avoid in the course of our project. To find out how your business can get involved, click on our 'sponsors' page
Buy us a battery!
* BUY US A BATTERY *
Thanks again to our PayPal supporters and sponsors, you've all been so generous and your contributions have allowed us to buy a stack of parts to restore some very broken laptops back to their former glory.
Now we can get those out into the community where they are despe…
A great team!
Huge thanks to every single one of our tech volunteers, without whom, this entire venture would be unsustainable.
Tim
Jack
Mike A
Mike B
Michael F
James
Ollie
Brett
Craig
Every one of these purely decent chaps deserve a pat on the back for what they have done …
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March 21, 2021