FizzBug Share2Learn

It seems a long time ago that we were asking for your support to help raise funds or donate devices, so that children could learn from home. I hope we dont have to see this again!

Incredibly just short of £5000 was raised and nearly 100 devices donated which enabled us to support over 140 children and schools in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, a large majority from Harpenden.

This is our final post but wanted to send a heartfelt ’thank you’ for jumping onboard with us and helping to make children’s lives a little easier.

This letter of 'thanks' really paints the true picture of what children and schools are up against in lockdown.

In just one local school trust, 29 pupils had NO device and NO internet connection; a further 138 children had an internet connection but NO device; and 238 additional children who are accessing all of their learning via a mobile phone (often a parent’s phone). This means that they needed at least 376 devices to ensure that each child was able to access the remote learning on a suitable device. This school still needs 52 devices.

Please share this post, share with your family and friends and lets see if we can get all these children homeschooling. We can pick up any devices and you can also donate to our just giving page https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/fizzbug-share2learn?utm_term=PA8NvjN5J Please email [email protected]

We have had another incredible week and now raised £4640. THANK YOU

We have collected another 18 devices this week and are out collecting more tomorrow. These will all be delivered to schools on Monday. Thanks to you, this week we have delivered to 3 primary schools in Harpenden and one other in Luton.

But please let's not stop here. You can help in 3 ways, simply spread the word and share, donate to our Just Giving page so that we can purchase further equipment or if you have old laptops or tablets to donate we would be more than happy to collect them!

Have a super, safe weekend and thank you again

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/fizzbug-share2learn
Thank you to everyone who is helping us help our local communities to ensure

Thursday 21 January 2021

Your daily FYI from the digital team:

📻8pm Radio Verulam's The Parents' Show are joined by Hannah Viet from sponsors Rayden Solicitors who talks to Lydia about the topics of education and divorce - who is responsible for schooling options when parents split up?

Debbie Roberts gives Lydia and Seema an update on the amazing work being done by The OLLIE Foundation, and talks about a new initiative around depression medication, while Steve talks to local childcare providers FizzBug Share2Learn about their new plan to get IT help and laptop donations for home learning during the pandemic.

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Tune in this evening 8pm Radio Verulam!

This week we are joined by Hannah Viet from our sponsors Rayden Solicitors who talks to Lydia about the interconnected topics of education and divorce - who is responsible for schooling options when parents split up?

Debbie Roberts gives Lydia and Seema an update on the amazing work being done by the OLLIE Foundation, and talks about a new initiative around depression medication, while Steve talks to Kate Nesbitt of local childcare providers Fizzbug about their new plan to get IT help and laptop donations for home learning during the pandemic.

That's 8pm this Thursday on 92.6FM Radio Verulam.
https://theolliefoundation.org/

FizzBug Share2Learn

The Parents' Show is sponsored by Rayden Solicitors

It was an absolute pleasure to be able to help!

But we need to keep fundraising in order to help the many more who need it. Please give whatever you can to our Just Giving page so that we can purchase further equipment, or if you have old laptops or tablets to donate we would be more than happy to collect them!

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/fizzbug-share2learn

Thank you to everyone who is helping us help our local communities to ensure

We collected another 9 devices today and set to collect another 10 tomorrow. But our funds have now run out. We had a fantastic response over the weekend and had another £700 donated. I can't thank you enough. But as fast as I was ordering new devices and allocating donated ones, more requests were coming in from schools. I feel so grateful that we can help some but feel desperate that so many can not be helped without your support. If you can help please either:-
1) email or message us
2) donate via the page https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/fizzbug-share2learn?utm_term=v5zqV22gY
Thank you 🌈

This week has been incredibly busy and on behalf of many schools and families, all of whom have asked me to share their thoughts, THANK YOU ....... this afternoon I dropped off over 30 devices plus 3 new laptops to schools in Luton. The lovely secretary and Head teacher that I met were completely overwhelmed, as was I. It suddenly felt very real and was certainly emotional! In less than a week over 60 children have been supported. 17 new laptops / Chromebooks have also been bought and delivered 🤩

Please let's not stop here. We have requests for more than 40 devices and have now simply run out!

Please please donate, either financially or by offering an old device.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/fizzbug-share2learn?utm_term=zKYW2AYZb