March 2008

In February 2008, the Trust in partnership with Hackney Council for Voluntary Service (HCVS), launched the first phase of it’s 'PC project' for the voluntary sector in East London at HCVS offices.

This project aims to deliver free PC's to community groups who need them in Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Newham. The PC's have been donated to the Trust by a local business.

At this event, 120 PC's were available for collection by community and voluntary groups working with refugee and asylum seekers, the homeless and children in care or young adults who have just left care living in Hackney.

Chief Officer of HCVS Jake Ferguson said “the response from groups needing this ICT equipment was overwhelming” and that the project further “highlighted the wide need for IT resources and training to help strengthen the voluntary sector in Hackney”.

East London Network (ELN) have offered self-help training to groups so they can set up their new computers.

Maxitech.biz, a multi-award-winning, socially and environmentally focused company, dedicated to reusing and recycling redundant IT and electronic equipment has removed existing data and installed new licensed Windows XP software on all the machines.