Make a difference by donating your old mobile phoneMobile phone handsets are typically used for just eighteen months before being replaced – and there are currently over 53 million old and unused handsets lying around gathering dust in UK households. Are there any in your home? You can raise funds for Refuge simply by recycling your unwanted phone – at absolutely no cost to you. Send your phone by freepost to our partner, Greener Solutions, in aid of Refuge and we will receive £3.50 per handset, whatever condition it is in. Not only is this eco-friendly; Greener Solutions will reformat your phone for use in the developing world so you could be making a positive difference to these communities too, improving local economies and quality of life. Everyone’s a winner! It couldn’t be easier to send in your phone. All you have to do is download a form and freepost label and pop your phone in the post. Alternatively, simply address your envelope to: Refuge, Greener Solutions, FREEPOST, LON17592, Mitcham , CR4 3UZ.
Get your company and community group involved!
Perhaps you could set up a collection point in your office, encourage colleagues to participate in a phone amnesty, or distribute freepost envelopes around your office? For example, IP SOLUTIONS are supporting our mobile phone recycling scheme by promoting it to their mobile business customers. IP Solutions is an independent, award winning provider of Hosted VoIP, Mobile, Call Management and Inbound Calling solutions to UK businesses. They can help your business to create your ideal communications infrastructure. For more information, please vist the IP Solutions website. We are so grateful to IP Solutions for their support – not only are they helping to raise vital funds, they are also raising awareness of our work, letting women know that there is something that they can go for help if they are experiencing domestic violence. You could do this to! For more information on how you could help Refuge by promoting our mobile phone recycling scheme in your place of business, please contact Harriet on 020 7395 7713, or harriet_gray@refuge.org.uk. Our mobile phone scheme really does make a difference: since 2005 the scheme has raised over £16,000 for us – this could pay for more than 90 children to receive a programme of 12 sessions of counselling from a Refuge psychologist, helping them to overcome the trauma of witnessing or experiencing abuse. Please do dig that unused phone out of your drawer – it really is worth it! We have special phone freepost envelopes which you could distribute to clients, workmates or friends; get in touch on 020 7395 7713 or harriet_gray@refuge.org.uk and we’ll be delighted to send you some. |
