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More than a million laptops have been sent to needy pupils during lockdown in £400m boost for Mail Force drive Total of 1,055,745 devices have been delivered to students who need them most Deliveries allow children to complete vital schoolwork at home during lockdown The Government programme has also allowed thousands of families to receive … Read more
More than a million laptops have been sent to needy pupils during lockdown in £400m boost for Mail Force drive Total of 1,055,745 devices have been delivered to students who need them most Deliveries allow children to complete vital schoolwork at home during lockdown The Government programme has also allowed thousands of families to receive … Read more
To the delight of one secondary school’s pupils – especially some excitable triplets – the Mail Force van has made its latest delivery of laptops. Mail Force has now raised a whopping £10.6millon for the Computers for Kids campaign in just three weeks, to help lockdown pupils struggling to follow online classes. The charity has … Read more
Mail Force yesterday struck a mammoth £1million deal for new computers for lockdown pupils. The laptops will go to 5,000 of Britain’s most needy schoolchildren and will arrive in several batches over two weeks – starting on Monday. The landmark moment has come thanks to Daily Mail readers who have donated so generously, along with … Read more
Mail Force’s drive to get schoolchildren online shifted up a gear yesterday with a sensational donation from Dixons Carphone. The retailer offered 1,000 ‘top spec’ laptops worth £380,000. Dixons Carphone said it was delighted to pledge the nearly new devices to help youngsters struggling to follow online classes during lockdown. All the machines, from well-known … Read more
Mother-of-three, 35, says brazen burglars walked into her flat and stole her children’s home-schooling laptops and smartphones before locking the front door behind them as they left Kerry-Ann Quinn, 35, said that they were trying to steal her three sons’ gadgets Ms Quinn was in the shower when crooks broke into the flat in Maybole, … Read more
The operation began before dawn – another precious consignment of Mail Force laptops that will transform the lives of yet more schoolchildren. The computers were ready just before 6am yesterday and were on their way up the motorway from the depot in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, within the hour. They were destined for a school in Manchester … Read more
In a boost for British children, one of the country’s most successful online retailers pledged a whopping £500,000 to Mail Force yesterday. The Hut Group’s donation sends our campaign to help pupils in lockdown get online soaring to £5.6million in just a week. Laptops are already being handed out to schoolchildren who desperately need them to … Read more
Were it not for the workers’ hi-vis tabards and the occasional fork-lift truck, we could almost be inside Mission Control, Houston – or Europe’s biggest branch of PC World. Stretching out into the distance is row upon row of computer screens – vast banks of them – and they are all showing exactly the same … Read more
Mail Force had a triple boost yesterday with £500,000 from a leading entrepreneur, laptops from Sainsbury’s and a deluge of donations from readers. The charity’s campaign to get laptops to lockdown pupils has now raised an astonishing £2.6million in just five days. Sir Tom Hunter, who made his fortune in sporting goods, handed over his … Read more