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Repurpose your unwanted digital tech
Repurpose your unwanted digital tech
Decluttering?
Helping people access learning, to continue studies or get professional qualifications?
Supporting someone to resolve their immigration status?
Keeping material out of landfill?
Whatever your reason, we hope you will be able to support our ongoing campaign to help repurpose unwanted digital devices for some of the region’s most vulnerable people.
Where do the devices go?
Where do the devices go?
We work with Bradford-based organisation Solidaritech CIC who repurpose your unwanted devices, passing them on to asylum seekers and refugees across the region.
Is my equipment and data secure?
Is my equipment and data secure?
Solidaritech will professionally wipe your old hard drives, installing new Operating Systems to make a new, quicker and more usable machine. If you prefer, you can wipe your own machine before donating it, following the guidelines.
What can I donate?
What can I donate?
Tablets
Laptops
Smart phones
all ideally with their charging cables, batteries etc.
Devices should ideally be less than 5 years old and in working order.
Older equipment in working order may also be accepted, but please check with us first.
How can I donate?
How can I donate?
Donations should be put into a bag or box, with chargers attached or bagged with the relevant device, along with a note about if it has been wiped or what the password is (especially on any Apple device). Drop off or collection can be arranged by emailing techcollection@climateactionilkley.org.uk.
Press coverage
Press coverage
February 2021 update: The Ilkley Gazette reported on the campaign
TWENTY-eight Wharfedale households and organisations have donated 44 unwanted technical devices for redistribution to people across West Yorkshire…[Full article]
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