Corby restaurant steps up to help lockdown students who don't have a printer at home

A Corby restaurant forced to close in the coronavirus lockdown is offering use of its printer to parents who are teaching at home and are unable to print work.

Staff at Mediterranean restaurant Olive, in George Street, are doing their bit to help the community with hundreds of parents currently home-schooling as part of measures to slow the spread of the virus.

Many don't have a printer at home to print out work or can't get hold of ink - so the Corby restaurant is doing it for them on their black-and-white printer, free of charge, to make sure children have the resources they need.

An Olive spokesman said: "We hope by making this small gesture to the community that it could help families with their at home learning.

"We are aware schools are trying their hardest to get laptops and resources out to students with such short notice.

"We had the printer sat not being used in our closed restaurant, and we have no idea when we will be able to open again.

"It made sense to offer the printing service, and volunteer our time while we are all furloughed."

If you're a parent and need something printing you should send an email to [email protected], including your name and contact number and attach any work that needs printing - it must be either a Word doc, jpeg or PDF.

Olive will then confirm they have printed it for you and offer a time for collection on a Monday.

Emails should be sent by Saturday afternoon.

The Olive spokesman added that other firms are now also offering help - and they hope even more will come forward.

They said: "We are sure other companies in Northamptonshire may have something they could advertise that may help someone.

"Since we have posted we are already aware people are coming forward and offering paper, pens, and delivery services to get the resources to local children."