Practical guides from Tech for Change for schools, charities, PTAs and community organisations. These pages are written to answer real questions first, then help you choose the right fundraising route.
Old phones often stay in drawers after an upgrade because people are unsure about data, value or the right recycling route. A community collection gives supporters one clear process and can recover value for a participating cause.
Read guide →A school tech collection asks families and staff to find devices they no longer use, then brings those items into one managed campaign. It can complement traditional fundraising because participation is based on unused equipment rather than another purchase.
Read guide →An unused laptop can contain both recoverable financial value and sensitive personal data. A good charity or community collection needs to deal with both: make it easy to donate the device while being clear about the handling process.
Read guide →Before recycling an old laptop, decide whether it still has useful life. The best route may be reuse, resale, passing it on, a managed fundraising collection or responsible recycling.
Read guide →Phone recycling fundraising works best as a short, visible campaign. The aim is to get unused devices out of drawers, route them through an appropriate process and return the resulting value to the participating organisation.
Read guide →School IT equipment can be more complicated than household devices because it may be on an asset register, contain pupil or staff data and be covered by internal disposal policies. The right process starts with governance, then moves to reuse or recycling.
Read guide →When a school disposes of IT equipment, fundraising value is secondary to data protection and governance. The school should understand exactly how devices are tracked, handled and cleared before relying on any recycling or reuse route.
Read guide →Businesses often have two types of unused technology: staff-owned devices that can be collected through a voluntary campaign, and company-owned assets that need an authorised disposal process. Treat them differently.
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