What We Do

We are currently prioritising laptop and tablet donations for our community. However, we will always be happy to have a chat about other tech equipment to see if we are able to accept it.

Please email hello@powertoconnect.co.uk and we can answer any questions you may have.

Yes. Ideally, we need devices that are fully working and complete with charger. If the devices are in good condition, we can source additional chargers.

Yes, we can collect donations within Wandsworth. We can also collect devices from outside of the borough if there is a significant number of devices, ideally 20+.

You can drop off your items at our Community Centre in Nine Elms where we are usually accepting donations between 10am-12pm on Tuesdays.

You can also drop off your devices at Wandsworth Town Hall between 7:30am – 5pm any weekday.

Please fill in our donation form and we will contact you providing the address & instructions.

Once we have received your device, we will securely wipe all the data and check it’s fully functioning, it will get allocated to one of the schools or organisations in Wandsworth we support to be passed onto a recipient and theirs to keep.

We currently only provide support for those who live in Wandsworth.

If you have any questions or queries on this, please feel free to email hello@powertoconnect.co.uk and we will do our best to answer.

Where we are not able to refurbish a device, the device hard drive will be destroyed and disposed appropriately before passing on to a third party for recycling. Appropriate disposal means any process by which the data is inaccessible – for example, physical destruction of
the device (e.g.by crusher/ hammer).

We work directly with Wandsworth council to deliver devices to schools and community organisations in line with the council’s deprivation data. As a result, the families most in need receive their devices first. We do not take applications from individual families or residents.

If you are a Wandsworth resident and in need a device, you can apply for a device via your school or a supporting community organisation.

If you are a community organisation within Wandsworth and need devices of devices for your beneficiaries, please contact hello@powertoconnect.co.uk who will pass the request on to Wandsworth Children’s Services.

Requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Wandsworth Council cannot guarantee that every request will be fulfilled.

We know how important data security is and it is our priority to ensure all data is safely handled and destroyed. The method for doing so depends on the type of device, but all methods follow UK data destruction standards.

Once we have the laptops, we use a commercially available utility that works on both HDD and SSD devices to securely erase data by performing a single pass overwrite function.

For tablets we factory reset these devices but please note iPads must be logged out of iCloud + their passcode removed before donating so that we’re able to do this.

Absolutely! There are many ways for you to get involved.

Check out our key supporters page.

Unfortunately, we can’t accept devices that don’t work. We run a fresh install on donated devices, so they need to be able to start and run without problems.

We also don’t accept devices with cracked screens or missing buttons.

Please email hello@powertoconnect.co.uk if you have any questions about this.

If you are an organisation with surplus tech you would like to donate, we can look into wiping devices using Blancco accredited software. This will irreversibly destroy all on-disk data in compliance with national cyber security standards and can provide a Certificate of Erasure.

Please email hello@powertoconnect.co.uk to find out more.