After the continued success of our recent fundraising initiative and partnership with Asylum Welcome, MCS is delighted to report that 100 laptops have now been donated to our local community.

Between the laptops donated to Asylum Welcome and those purchased thanks to generous donations from our alumni, staff, governors, parents and the wider OW community, these devices have helped tackle the digital poverty exacerbated by Covid19 in families and schools across Oxford.

 

Here is Jon Gray, Head at Larkrise Primary School in Oxford, taking receipt of devices for his pupils:

families have received a laptop thanks to MCS fundraising
raised to support the campaign
East Oxford Primary Schools have benefitted

Will Wyatt (OW 1961), a donor to the campaign and former Director General of the BBC said of the initiative:

“I hate the idea of children who want to learn being prevented from doing so or children who might learn not having the chance. It must be like having no pen, ink, pencil, paper or school books when I was young.”

I hate the idea of children who want to learn being prevented from doing so or children who might learn not having the chance. It must be like having no pen, ink, pencil, paper or school books when I was young.

Will Wyatt (OW 1961), Former Director General of the BBC

The campaign is part of our wider partnerships work in the city during the Covid19 pandemic. MCS has produced and donated PPE to Oxford University Hospitals and local GP surgeries, and continues to run Rose Hill Community Larder, an initiative that has proved a lifeline to residents during the pandemic.