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      Home » Blog » Network Rail donates laptops to schools

      Network Rail donates laptops to schools

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      • Date April 22, 2021

      We’ve donated laptops to a school in Manchester as part of our efforts to support children learning at home – and reduce waste.

      Volunteers at Network Rail have designed a scheme to donate old laptops to children across Britain who are in desperate need of a device to help with their school work.

      The project aims to donate more than 8,000 laptops to schools in Britain over the next year.

      The scheme also supports our sustainability goals. Nominations for schools from Network Rail employees are processed by a team of volunteers who work with the schools to deliver this initiative. It provides an opportunity to recycle old laptops for a good cause, and highlights our commitment to meet a target of zero waste to landfill by 2024.

      Pilot launches

      We piloted the scheme by donating laptops to St Willibrord’s RC Primary School in Manchester.

      Stephanie Hart, end user computer lead in IT Services at Network Rail, volunteered her own time to arrange the pilot.

      She said: “It was fantastic to see these devices finally arriving at the school. We’ve been planning this for a long time and this pilot has allowed us to test the safety and suitability of the processes needed to make this happen.

      “We’re now ready for colleagues to nominate schools in their area so that we can help thousands more children to continue learning from home throughout the pandemic.”

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      “Extremely grateful”

      Carl McIver, head teacher at St Willibrord’s RC Primary School, said: “We are extremely grateful to Network Rail for the support that they have offered to our school at this time.

      “We began looking at this project a number of years ago, but at this time of pandemic Steph and her team have been able to rapidly put in place an incredibly generous offer for our school supplying enough laptops for every child to have individual access to a high-quality machine.

      “This offer will enable us to replace our aging and unreliable PC stock with machines that teachers and pupils alike can depend upon for many years to come.”

      Aidan Hancock, group chief information officer at Network Rail, said: “I am delighted students around the country will be able to make good use of our old laptops – it’s taken a lot of effort by the IT team.

      “I’ll smile every time I think of students learning using our old laptops over the coming months and years.”

      The scheme forms part of our plans to become a more sustainable company and reduce our waste. We recently published our Environmental Sustainability Strategy, which sets out our vision to serve Britain with the cleanest, greenest mass transport.

      One of the aims of the strategy is to send no waste to landfill. We’ve already made good progress minimising the amount of waste sent to landfill but we need to do more about the volume of waste we produce.

      Between 2017 and 2018, we diverted 98% of our waste from landfill. The re-use of infrastructure materials like track and ballast is already part of how we work because our assets last for a long time and are costly to replace.

      Our ambition is to reuse, repurpose or redeploy all surplus resources, minimise use of resources, and design out waste and plastic pollution.

      Read more:

      Environmental sustainability strategy

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      Network Rail launches Environmental Sustainability Strategy

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      Q and A with ecologist Nathaniel Legall

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