Click & Connect
United Kingdom
The Click and Connect centres aim to increase digital access throughout Scottish communities and open up a range of opportunities …
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SocialBox.biz
United Kingdom · London · National · See the United Kingdom profile
As a part of its social impact digital inclusion initiative SocialBox.biz collects disused but still working laptop computers in order to support disadvantaged groups to become digitally included. Businesses can instruct their IT department to contact SocialBox.Biz regarding dis
1000+ people
Individuals provided with laptops
Details
- Maturity
- Established
- Promoter
- SocialBox.biz — website
- Type
- Service
- Status
- Ongoing
- Target groups
- Elderly people, Marginalised young people and children, Migrants, Unemployed and those facing social problems
- People reached
- 1000
- Period
- 2014-01-01
- Keywords
- digital inclusion, refugees, homeless, elderly, disabled, access
Context
SocialBox.Biz, founded in the UK in 2014 by Peter Paduh, collects disused-but-working laptops and devices from businesses and employees and redistributes them, via charity partners such as Centrepoint, British Red Cross and the Greater London Authority, to homeless people, isolated elderly people, refugees and families in hardship.
Results
The organisation reports having provided laptops to 1,000+ individuals to date.
Implementation
Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.
Commonly funded by
Philanthropic / foundation funding
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Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
- Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
- Information source — accessed 2026-06-14
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