Tag: Digital Poverty Alliance

Currys select the Digital Poverty Alliance to become its new in-store UK Pennies donation partner

Stuart Mitchell

The Digital Poverty Alliance, the Learning Foundation campaign seeking to end digital poverty in the UK, has today been announced as the instore donation partner for the tech giant, Currys. From May, Currys customers nationwide will be offered the chance to donate 25p to charity when paying by card or digital wallet, through Currys’ partnership with micro-donation charity Pennies. These extra pennies collected at the point of sale will aid the Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA) in their mission to end digital poverty in the UK by 2030. They plan to…

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Digital Poverty Alliance rolls out stage two of Tech4Teachers, in partnership with Barclays and Intel, supporting 20,000 underprivileged children in the UK

Stuart Mitchell

The Digital Poverty Alliance, alongside Barclays and Intel, have started to roll out its second stage of Tech4Teachers, a new project which provides laptops to teachers to improve the quality of teaching at schools across the UK. This stage of the campaign has started to connect teachers who lack adequate online access with 550 new devices, to enable them to better support over 20,000 school children in the most disadvantaged communities. Funding for the programme will be provided by flagship sponsors Barclays and Intel. This second stage builds upon the…

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