In early January this year I heard about people collecting used laptops for schools from the IT manager at work and thought I’d check with Farlingaye if they needed any.  I was shocked to hear that they needed 30 extra laptops urgently for families with children either not able to access their lessons at all, sharing a laptop with a sibling and so missing many lessons or logging in just with a smart phone too small to show the detail and unable to download the homework.   

A friend had started collecting used computers so I set out to raise funds to buy new ones too, convinced we needed to do a lot and fast. This was a challenge that grew rapidly in size as we learnt that the primary schools also needed help.