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Hook Odiham & Hartley Wintney Lions Club (CIO)

A Charity Incorporated Organisation (CIO) Registered Charity Number:- 1176812

3000 Computers Donated

Since the start of the first lockdown in March 2020 Lions clubs based in North East Hampshire, together with Farnham Lions, have now supplied in excess of 3,000 computers to local families in Hart, Rushmoor and Waverley.

Whilst the project to supply refurbished IT Equipment to disadvantaged families was started in early 2019, it was the closure of schools announced in March of last year resulted in a massive demand for home learning.

The IT Team representing the Lions Clubs of Hook& Odiham, Yateley, Hart, Fleet, Farnborough and Aldershot made the unilateral decision to offer computers on the recommendation of any teacher who decided that their students needed IT Support at home.

65 local schools are now being supported by the scheme, resulting in hundreds of families now being able to access home learning. Larger families are often supplied with more than one unit to relieve the stress of having to share.

Computers for reuse have been sourced from the general public via various promotional campaigns including the recent BBC 'Make a Difference' appeal. Likewise local authorities and businesses have come forward to offer their redundant computers – all of which are processed by the IT Team to cleanse the hard drives, upgrade internal components to make them Windows 10 compliant. All units are finally PAT Tested before being released to eager families.

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Any help in the form of additional laptops or financial support to pay for spare batteries, power supplies, hard drives etc would be gratefully received by the team

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