Active age centre

[scouseena]

The Active Age Centre opened over three years ago and is situated in Townsend Lane Liverpool and offers various activities for the over 50's.
A Lifestyle gym, Line dancing, Tai che, Taster computer courses, Local history, and many more...

I am one of the volunteers there and am involved with introducing computers to the older generation.
We provide taster courses to encourage the oldies to keep up with their grandchildren in this modern computer generation.
The main problem we have is that - the computers we use to teach with, are now slow and outdated.

Unfortunately only new projects appear to attract support from the various agencies with the grant and public money,and we cannot find anyone to support existing projects that need maintaining and updating.
Age Concern Liverpool is the charity which maintains the Centre and they do not have the funds to update the computers.

So - can anyone help - advise - or donate - towards helping us to continue teaching and not have to sit looking at a blank screen for over 5mins waiting for the computers to start and the programs to load.

cheers
Scouseena

[Kev]

Good to hear from you!  

I'll make this thread sticky to see if you get any replies.....

[FKoE]

So - can anyone help - advise - or donate - towards helping us to continue teaching and not have to sit looking at a blank screen for over 5mins waiting for the computers to start and the programs to load.

An idea, Maybe if you can compose an email, which we all can post to different firms involved in IT, we may get some results, Firms that work in banking, civil service, etc are upgrading their equipment every 24months or so, and I do believe they just dump them rather than recondition them ... Lets get them to donate their computers .......

Well its an idea

[Kev]

An idea, Maybe if you can compose an email, which we all can post to different firms involved in IT, we may get some results, Firms that work in banking, civil service, etc are upgrading their equipment every 24months or so, and I do believe they just dump them rather than recondition them ... Lets get them to donate their computers .......

Well its an idea

Hey, scouseena, listen to FKoE, he's really good! Yes a great idea mate!

[Howie]

You might find the 3tc - Merseyside Third Sector Technology Centre helpful.