Pictured Above: Laptops Arriving at Holy Trinity. Also Delivered to St.Michael's, South Ascot Village School, Cranbourne and Ascot Heath

The Rotary Club of Ascot   are extremely proud to be associated with a local project to provide laptops for primary schools in the Ascot, Windsor and Bracknell catchment areas.

In cooperation with the Sunningdale Hope Trust, and other local charitable organisations, the project, to date, has raised over £20,000 which has enabled the purchase of 150 laptops and still counting!

The project was initiated by Georgie Tindall a local resident of Sunninghill. Georgie was contacted by local primary school heads who alerted her to the serious problem of available laptops which would be urgently needed due to the imminent closure of schools.The laptop project was launched.

 The laptops would be made available, by the schools, to local families who do not have sufficient funds to own or purchase a laptop, or, only have one to share across their children who have different online lessons. This problem would have a real impact on children’s education now and in the future as they get further behind with their studies.

The Rotary Club of Ascot has committed, to date, £3400 towards the funding of the project with £2400 being donated by our close friends Boehringer-Ingelheim of Bracknell.

The laptops are being distributed across primary schools in the Ascot, Bracknell and Windsor areas 

The Rotary Club of Ascot President, Jo Clare, has commented……...

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The Rotary Club of Ascot are committed to helping our local communities when and wherever possible and the local primary schools laptop project is a great example of the support and financial commitment the Rotary Club of Ascot can give.

In collaboration with local businesses and other local charitable organisations we can, together, make a real difference and improve the lives of those people in our community who require a little extra help and in this instance improve the future education of the children in our primary schools. We are proud to be associated with this project.

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