Computers/Software For Charity

beard0609

Wonder if anyone can help... I've just started work for a fairly small charity and it has become apparant that we need computes and software!! Anybody know of any good companies and or sites that I can look on for a bargain!!

Thanks In Advance

imho

Put a Ad in your local paper .

John_Gray

beard0609 wrote: »

Wonder if anyone can help... I've just started work for a fairly small charity and it has become apparant that we need computes and software!!

You also need more information about what it is you want, and what you're going to do with them!

How many computers? Networked? Printers? Server?

What software? Just word processing? Spreadsheets?

... and so on...

beard0609

John_Gray wrote: »

You also need more information about what it is you want, and what you're going to do with them!

How many computers? Networked? Printers? Server?

What software? Just word processing? Spreadsheets?

... and so on...

Sorry.. Need laptops for the workers who are out visiting the clients
PC for the staff on site
Microsoft office for everyone

Also wanted computers for the clients to use for education / employment reasons

John_Gray

That looks like it will cost you several thousand pounds - hope you've got some good funding!

To get very cheap Microsoft software for a charity, look at the Charity Technology Exchange - Microsoft donate software, and CTX charges a small admin fee to give it out. There are a whole lot of hoops to go through, and lots of limitations with regard to how often you can buy stuff... But it's (nearly) free (Office Pro for £13, for example).

PS Intrigued how you 'suddenly discovered' they needed computers and software!

Robin_T_Cox

You could try Freecycle:
http://uk.freecycle.org/

beard0609

It's not that we suddenly need computers it's just moving into the 21st century!!!

-TangleFoot-

Computers will always cost money, but you could conceivably get all your software for free...

sporedude

Get a few cheap pc's, Load them with Open Office, Free AVG and away you go

Marty_J

I'm sure you can find some cheap or even free computers if you check Craigslist or Freecycle.

Then just put the free operating system Ubuntu on them, install OpenOffice, and you're all set.

-TangleFoot-

Marty_J wrote: »

install OpenOffice, and you're all set.

Isn't OpenOffice.org already part of the base installation? :rolleyes: