UK Fundraising donates monitor via donateapc.org.uk
Howard Lake | 11 February 2004 | News
UK Fundraising has found a home for its unwanted Dell 17″ monitor using the donateapc.org.uk Web site.
The recent purchase of a new monitor at UK Fundraising means we had a spare Dell 17″ monitor which was still in good condition and needed to find a good home.
We used the free services of donateapc.org.uk to announce its availability and this morning a local charity picked it up to take to their office.
The donateapc.org.uk site worked very well. It was easy to post details of the monitor, and we received requests for it from three organisations, so the site clearly gets used well. After the charity picked up the monitor we were able to return to the Web site and delete the monitor from the listing, without any complicated user IDs or passwords to remember.
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There are a number of PC and hardware recycling sites online, but donateapc.org.uk was set up specifically to cater for the individuals and companies who only had one or two bits of kit to donate. Most of the other sites catered for larger companies who wanted to donate many items in one go.
All in all it proved a very effective and easy-to-use service.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.