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Mar 2021

Last Updated: 19/03/2021

Business

Harrogate Apple repair shop donates 60 iPads to local schoolchildren

by Thomas Barrett

| 21 Mar, 2021

Howard Conrad launched an appeal in January for faulty devices after staff read news reports about parents not having the technology for children to study from home during lockdown.

An Apple repair shop in Harrogate has refurbished 60 iPads and donated them to local schoolchildren.

Howard Conrad on Leeds Road launched an appeal in January for faulty devices after staff read news reports about parents not having the technology for children to study from home during lockdown.

The shop's team of technicians has been busy over the past couple of months bringing the iPads back to life.

They have now been donated to schools that are part of the Red Kite Learning Trust, a charitable company that operates several schools in the district, including Harrogate Grammar School, Western Primary School and Rossett Acre Primary School.

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Danny Scott, manager of Howard Conrad, said:

"Thank you very much to everyone who donated iPads over the last two months, thanks to your generosity and our repair skills - over 60 children have been able to learn from home who otherwise might not have been able to.

"This have been a been a valuable experience for not only the children who received the iPads but also ourselves as we have learnt a lot along the way and we hope to be able to offer more charity work in the future."

"We want to pay a special thanks to Dave Noble at the Red Kite Trust, who organised the distribution of these donated iPads on our behalf”

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