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Council to donate over 100 laptops to our borough’s schoolchildren

A Basildon company and soon to be registered charity, Every Child Online aims to ensure all children have the correct equipment to be able to learn from home. The council’s donation of over 100 laptops and other electrical devices will be distributed through local schools, exclusively to children in the Basildon borough without a device to use at home. The...

Rotary Club Join Forces With Charity, Every Child Online, in Support of BBC Essex’s Make a Difference Give a Laptop Appeal

This month, the people of Essex have demonstrated that in a crisis, we can support the community’s most vulnerable from the impact of this pandemic. The effects of Covid 19 and issues lockdown and self-isolation create, is no more evident than the implications it has on children without access to online learning at home. The effect of a “digital divide”...

Essex School Receives Sixty Refurbished Tough Book Laptops from Community Start-up Charity, Every Child Online.

However, this achievement by the charity is not the focus here. This is about the collaboration of groups within the community who have played a significant part in making any donation by Every Child Online possible. Every Child Online was born at the start of the pandemic in 2020. Mike Tarbard, Managing Director of Southern BME Ltd and Simon Gurner,...

Every Child Online calls out for votes to get a share of Tesco’s Community Grants fund.

Every Child Online are bidding for a cash boost from the Tesco Community Grants initiative. Tesco works with community charity Groundwork to run its community funding scheme, which sees grants of up to £1,500, £1,000 and £500 awarded to local community projects. Three groups in every community have been shortlisted to receive the cash award, and shoppers are being invited...