how to give PC to charity?

cyberstar

I need to get rid of my old PC, so just wondering are there any charity organisation that is willing to come and pick it up from my house?

Doooford

Hi Cyberstar,
If you only have one or two items to recycle/donate then try http://www.donateapc.org.uk/. Bigger organisations tend to only pick up large quantities of equipment! Hope this helps, let me know how you get on as I'm approaching a clear out of a couple of items myself :beer:

1echidna

This organisation http://frponline.org.uk/ came and picked up our old computer. You would need to be local though.

There is a link to a national association which may be of help.

codger

My mother in law (aged 86) now wishes to dispose of her PC and monitor, having acquired them at the age of 80 (her, not the IT equipment.)

But trying to find a resource which will actually facilitate this has proved hugely difficult. Freecycle, for instance, has links to community groups, but then you discover they're merely listing boards of all kinds of unwanted stuff accessible only by signing up to a particular Yahoo Group.

Other resources turn out to be 'disposal companies' which charge for collection with a view to destruction.

Still others are entirely local, so if you don't live in a particular area, that's it.

Finally, other so-called 'resources' seem to exist merely as listing centres of companies that do refurbishment or disposal.

After spending hours hunting around for somewhere suitable, we've finally tracked down

http://www.computersforcharity.org.uk/

Using a Next Day Courier collection service, the charge to companies and individuals is £20 per single system, including VAT.

We're now going to chase 'em up tomorrow (Monday) to see if they can collect Mum in law's system -- we were particularly impressed by this:

http://www.computersforcharity.org.uk/Gallery.asp

We certainly don't mind paying £20 for the national collection service (much better than having to lug this equipment ourselves to the tip) and as the above link shows, it's obvious that systems aren't merely destroyed.

Hope this helps: we certainly hadn't realised just how difficult it is to achieve the transfer of perfectly good and fnctioning Pentium / Windows 98SE equipment to a "good cause".