I have been contacted by a local teacher (@tamsin a significant contributor to the Emoncms Android app ) who is running a https://www.codeclub.org.uk/ to help teach children the basics of programming. They are struggling for funding to purchase the hardware they require. They contacted us to see if we had any older unwanted RaspberryPi’s. We had a few, which we have donated but not enough.
If you have any older (but working) raspberry pi’s which you no longer need/use and would be happy to donate to CodeClub, please contact me and I will arrange shipping.
I don’t think the foundation make donations directly themselves, they just try and make the Pi as cheap as possible. I did hear that Google donated 15,000 raspberrypi’s to UK schools back in 2013!
Thanks, a lot! We don’t need many any just a handful to get the local code club off the ground. I thought it would be a good use for any old (Pi1’s?) that could be collecting dust on shelves somwhere.
Thanks! Could you send it to our shop address (see bottom of this page): Contact
Do you have an account on our shop? Let me know how much the postage was and I’ll credit your account with 1.5x the shipping cost (to thank you for helping).
Well, unfortunatly ← ( not sure if is well translated) the Free Software Foundation can’t help. Here is their response:
"What a great project!
Unfortunately, the FSF can’t help acquire Raspberry Pis, because they require nonfree software in order to start up: Single-board computers — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software. That said, I wonder if Glyn can apply for local grants focused on STEM education - that might be a great way to acquire the funds to buy the hardware he needs.
Best of luck,
Georgia
Georgia Young
Program Manager
Free Software Foundation"
No worries about the postage Glyn. I’ll get it sent off tomorrow.
Not sure if it would help but is there a way to actually email everyone on the forum with a charitable request like this? Not everyone looks every day, so your post will gradually drop off the list of latest posts - and not everyone looks at latest either I guess. So maybe not many of the forum have actually seen the request. And there must be a lot of spare Pis around.
I will make sure they are put to good use - it will open up lots of different activities we can do in the club, I can report back on the projects we do if anyone interested
) who is running a https://www.codeclub.org.uk/ to help teach children the basics of programming. They are struggling for funding to purchase the hardware they require. They contacted us to see if we had any older unwanted RaspberryPi’s. We had a few, which we have donated but not enough.
