People have the chance to donate their unwanted IT equipment in Wimborne next month.

The next session organised by the DonateIT group will take place at Wimborne Methodist Church, in King Street, between 10.30am and noon on Saturday, March 11.
People are encouraged to bring along their unwanted IT equipment, including laptops, PCs, tablets, phones, routers, digital cameras, games consoles, smart watches and sat navs, all of which will be 100% data-wiped before being re-used.
You can also donate carry cases, AC adaptors, mains leads, power supplies, connectors and leads.

However, monitors, displays, TFT or VGA screens or printers cannot be accepted as these can all be taken to household recycling centres.
The kit will then be refurbished and passed to schoolchildren without IT at home through the Laptops4Learners programme, as well as through Dorset and Somerset NHS trusts to provide kit for children with Type 1 diabetes, so they can automatically regulate their insulin intake.
“Our last DonateIT session in October resulted in over 100 kilos of IT kit being collected, kept out of landfill and repurposed,” said a DonateIT spokesperson.
“Now there’s another opportunity to do some de-cluttering, get rid of IT devices you’re no longer using, and help people and the environment in the process. It’s a win-win.”