Please give us details of the IT Equipment you would like to donate to the Turing Trust using this form. This form will help us to check that your donation is suitable for our schools and send you information on how you can get your donation to us.This form should only take a couple of minutes to complete.
You can check on the IT equipment we can accept here.
We refurbish IT equipment, install a range of educational software and provide it to those who need it most.
Please note that this form is for donations from individuals only. If would like to make a business donation then please use our business donations form.
Frequently Asked Questions for Individual Donations
For small donations, you can arrange a collection from your location anywhere in the UK using a courier service for as little as £5.
For large donations, typically enough equipment to fill up a van, please fill out our Business Donation form and a member of our team will get in touch with you shortly to coordinate a collection.
Typically it costs us just £8 to install a donated computer into a classroom, so truly every penny counts. So if you can, please help us by covering the costs to send us your equipment.
We provide a free data destruction service using NCSC approved Blancco software as standard that complies with all local and international data security, environmental and industry regulations for all of our donors.
The only costs to enable your donation are in getting it to us. Typically it costs us just £8 to install a donated computer into a classroom, so truly every penny counts. So if you can, please help us by covering the costs to send us your equipment.
Of course you are also welcome to drop your donation off with us directly. Donations can be dropped-off at our premises at Unit 7C, Pentland Industrial Estate, Loanhead, EH20 9QH, by prior arrangement. Please use the donations forms for a business or individual below to arrange your visit in advance. Drop off times: Monday – Friday, 10.00am – 4.30pm.
We recommend using an affordable courier service to get your IT equipment to us. Many couriers will collect boxed IT equipment from your location, and bring it to our workshop to be processed and reused.
For large donations, typically enough equipment to fill up a van, please fill out our Business Donation form and a member of our team will get in touch with you shortly to coordinate a collection.
Typically it costs us just £8 to install a donated computer into a classroom, so truly every penny counts. So if you can, please help us by covering the costs to send us your equipment.
Of course you are also welcome to drop your donation off with us directly. Donations can be dropped-off at our premises at Unit 7C, Pentland Industrial Estate, Loanhead, EH20 9QH, by prior arrangement. Please use the donations forms for a business or individual below to arrange your visit in advance. Drop off times: Monday – Friday, 10.00am – 4.30pm.
Due to the administrative overheads involved with producing certificates, Data Destruction Certificates are only issued for donations of over 20 PCs. Please note that there is no difference in processing of your donation: all data-bearing equipment, regardless of the size of the donation, is wiped using Blancco software, as detailed in our Data Destruction Policy.
For larger donations we may be able to provide certification free of charge, offsetting our costs against your donated equipment. To request a certificate please email itdonations@turingtrust.co.uk
Yes, we are fully compliant with legal obligations under the Environmental Agency regulations, the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive, Data Protection (including GDPR), Hazardous Waste and Duty of Care. Process audits are performed to ensure complete compliance.
We will provide you with all the documentation you need to provide an audit trail to demonstrate your compliance to all the relevant data protection and environmental legislation.
The Turing Trust is registered with SEPA. License Number: WML/XC/1197908.
On receiving your donation your equipment will be assessed for reuse. Suitable items will be refurbished and sent to schools to support the education of disadvantaged students or similar charities. Items that are unsuitable for use in schools or charitable organisations will be refurbished and sold to generate funds to support the charity’s costs. Any items that cannot be reused will be recycled at an authorised WEEE recycling facility.
We can use a really broad range of IT equipment in our mission to equip schools with everything that they need. You can see the full list of equipment we can accept here.
We can typically only reuse devices that are less than 10 years old. This is to ensure that security patches are available, and that the required educational software will be supported.
If your device was a very high specification or has been upgraded and is still in fantastic condition but is more than 10 years old, then please put the details into our donation form below and we will confirm if we can reuse it.
The Turing Trust was set up by Alan Turing’s family to enable IT supported learning by reusing computers in classrooms globally.