Brightwave Donates £1,500 to the e-Learning Foundation
Date posted: Oct 2003Helping disadvantaged children to access portable computers for learning
Hove based e-learning company, Brightwave, has given a charity a boost with a generous donation of £1,500. The money, which was raised through the corporate Three Peaks Challenge they completed this summer, will go towards the work the e-Learning Foundation does to help children from disadvantaged backgrounds have access to portable computers for learning. Simon Brown, Co-founder and Director of Brightwave said, “We were keen to support a cause which linked in well with our own work, and the e-Learning Foundation fits the bill exactly. We are delighted that all our physical and fundraising endeavours will go towards this important aim.”
Established nearly three years ago now, the e-Learning Foundation were delighted with this contribution to their funds. “We are very grateful to Brightwave for choosing us and for putting so much personal effort into their fundraising for us. It’s terrific!” Simone Enefer, the e-Learning Foundation’s Fundraising Director said. She continued, “This donation means that one of our Local Foundations will be able to rent around three more laptops and enable even more children to have a better chance to learn the skills they need to succeed in our digital world.”
The charity was established in response to the need for IT literacy as a basic skill. Almost any job you can think of these days requires some level of IT literacy, but 40% of children from the most deprived areas of Britain still do not have access to a home computer and precious little use of IT at school. The e-Learning Foundation are hoping to make sure that all children – irrespective of their family means – will have the same chance to do well in their studies as those whose parents can afford the home kit, giving them a better start in life and the opportunity to join the e-economy of the 21st century.
The £1,500 is 50% of the sponsorship money raised, the other 50% has been donated by Brightwave to Cancer Research UK.
About the e-Learning Foundation
The e-Learning Foundation was launched in 2001 with an aim to ensure that every schoolchild in the UK – irrespective of their family means - should have access to IT for their studies and to learn the skills they need to join the e-economy when they leave school. Evidence is growing daily of the positive impact that ICT has on schoolchildren in terms of their results, motivation and behaviour, skills and, most recently, intelligence. Statutory funding cannot hope to provide this expensive equipment, but through their network of Local e-Learning Foundations around the country, thousands of portable computers are being lent to children who need them most for their studies at home and at school. In this way, they are helping to bridge the digital divide between the IT haves and the have-nots, giving every child an equal opportunity to break the cycle of disadvantage and to succeed in life. For more information: www.e-learningfoundation.com.
Charity No. 1086306
Notes to Editors – About Brightwave
Brightwave Ltd is one of the UK 's fastest growing providers of e-learning services, specialising in e-learning strategy, blended learning design, content development, collaborative development methods and tools, and multimedia communications. Clients include ScottishPower, T-Mobile, BT, Nestlé, Procter and Gamble, Pfizer, BOC, PricewaterhouseCoopers, as well as government departments such as the NHS, and voluntary organisations like Age Concern.
Our collaborative approach has been described as 'refreshing' by clients who are too often simply 'sold to' by e-learning vendors. Coupled with extensive training and blended learning expertise, Brightwave delivers engaging e-learning both quickly and cost-effectively.
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