Our vision
We collect and refurbish end-of-life laptops and other devices, and donate them to combat digital exclusion*.
*Digital Exclusion: a modern scourge that should never have happened
A hidden sector of society is being left behind – those who don’t have a device or internet access.
At the same time, millions of useable devices are discarded by people and organisations on the endless upgrade cycle.
We exploit this irony to the full! We collect discarded devices, refurbish them and donate them to digitally excluded people. Our focus is on education.
Ending digital exclusion together: your support is essential to help is give everyone a chance at education and the life-opportunities they deserve.
Reusing IT traces its beginnings to a small village in the Scottish Highlands, where in the late 1990s high school pupils were working on an aid project, Computers for Africa.
At the time, Reusing IT’s founder, Ross Cockburn, was an IT manager in Edinburgh for a large company. The director wanted a batch of old computers out of the way. Not wanting to see perfectly good computers go to landfill, Ross phoned around to find a good cause which could use them.
