Rochdale BID asks for donations of digital equipment for pupils in need Date published: 20 January 2021
Rochdale BID is asking for your unused equipment to help local school children
Following the closure of schools and colleges due to the national lockdown, Rochdale BID is asking for your unused equipment to help those pupils still in need.
Rochdale Town Centre Businesses Improvement District (BID) is keen to help the next generation of local entrepreneurs, business owners, key workers, and scientists as ‘everyone deserves a good education whatever the circumstances’.
Paul Ambrose, Business Improvement District Manager, said: “The quality of education in Rochdale is fantastic but we know that home schooling is particularly challenging for the most disadvantaged in our surrounding local communities who all too often fall on the wrong side of the digital divide.
Rochdale Digital Tech Library goes from strength to strength Date published: 15 December 2020
Digital Tech Library
At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, a group of grassroots voluntary organisations, in collaboration with Action Together in Rochdale, came together to do something about the digital poverty and exclusion that they witnessed in their communities.
This group of voluntary organisations didn’t just talk about it, they did something about it. They decided to form a consortium with a signed partnership agreement to get funding to purchase digital equipment to loan to people in need in their communities.
The partnership is made up of organisations that work at the grassroots within their communities of interest including: older people, young people and families, women and families from Black and South Asian communities, refugees and asylum seekers and people living with mental health issues across the borough of Rochdale.