Corby firm's big PC giveaway to homeschooling families

Families across our county were given the free IT equipment to help with homeschooling

A Corby recruitment firm has given away a range of IT equipment to help homeschooling families.

Logistics People, based at iForce at the Midlands Logistics Park in Corby, decided to upgrade its computing equipment to provide laptops to staff in case they needed to work from home during lockdown.

And instead of selling-off its redundant PCs, bosses decided to put them to good use by giving them out to local families. They also handed out monitors and keyboards to go with them.

The company even threw in some new monitors for the recipients

After putting messages on social media, members of staff took the equipment out to those families across the north of the county who were most in need.

Managing director Carl Stairs said: "It's awful listening to how these kids are having to learn on mobile phones.

"We just put a message on the local FB page and before we knew it we'd managed to find homes for all 22 PCs.

"It's good to be able to help out a little bit."