A company has given back after turning \u201cwhat was an office project\u201d into a meaningful collaboration with communities across the county.<\/p>\n
After staff at Support Revolution, an independent third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP, based in Thatcham, learnt they would have to vacate their office, as the business transitioned to a fully remote model following global expansion, they were left with a rather large problem.<\/p>\n
All smiles for St Bart’s School as they load up donations<\/p>\n
The office contained over 20 years\u2019 worth of miscellaneous objects, from desks, chairs, kitchenware, to computer monitors – and all of it had to go before the space was handed back to landlords.<\/p>\n
It meant that in the space of a few months, before waving goodbye to the space, the operations team had to figure out what to do with everything that had accumulated over the years.<\/p>\n
Head of operations, Quyen Le, was one of the office project leads, helping to shift the supplies in the office to local organisations in need.<\/p>\n
The company named the donation project, \u2018Less Landfill, More Goodwill\u2019.<\/p>\n
Park House School load up<\/p>\n
At first, Ms Le was unsure how to approach the task, so put out feelers on local Facebook groups to see if anyone was interested – and said she was \u201coverwhelmed\u201d by the responses.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn less than a day over 80 people messaged me, including from schools and various charities.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to help as many organisations as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over the next few weeks, Ms Le spent her days organising visits and pick-ups from those who needed it most, ranging from schools, to charities and non-profit organisations.<\/p>\n
Falkland Surgery enjoys its new set up thanks to Support Revolution<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was so amazing hearing all the stories from different organisations.<\/p>\n
\u201cResources are actually lacking for a lot of the organisations, so it was really rewarding to help where we could.\u201d<\/p>\n
Through the initiative, Ms Le said Support Revolution were \u201cdelighted\u201d to have been able to donate to over 18 educational institutions, charities and non-profit organisations in total.<\/p>\n
Family support worker at Best Start Family Hub in Thatcham, Becci Smith, said: “The donation has been a massive help as we work confidentially with families and so having appropriate lockable storage has been so helpful.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrateful for the donation from you guys, thank you!”<\/p>\n
Flag DV received donations<\/p>\n
Many local causes were involved, including educational settings: Park House School, Wildflower Meadows in Burghclere, Tigers Day Nurseries, iCollege, Kennet School and St Bart’s School who were all grateful for the resources.<\/p>\n
Falkland Surgery (NHS), West Berkshire Therapy Centre, Best Start Family Hub in Thatcham, and domestic abuse charity Flag DV were also the recipients of donations from Support Revolution.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was great to help as many people as possible, from what was an office project.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny items that were donated to private organisations or individuals, we invited them to make a donation to our chosen charity The Loddon School, who we met through this initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n
Computer donations to iCollege<\/p>\n
Head of Science at iCollege, Rachel Pocock, said: “We are incredibly grateful to Support Revolution; their generous donation has allowed us to improve essential IT resources despite severe financial constraints.”<\/p>\n
The company also chipped in after one of Tigers Day Nursery\u2019s sites was destroyed by a fire, to help them get back on their feet with whatever they needed from what was available, said Ms Le.<\/p>\n
Quyen Le with staff from Tigers Nursery receive donations after recovering from a fire which destroyed one of its buildings<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for West Berkshire Therapy Centre also thanked the company: \u201cOur centre was very much in need of the items that they kindly made available; their support for local charities is greatly appreciated.\u201d<\/p>\n
By the end of the project, Support Revolution had managed to donate 95 per-cent of its belongings to the local and wider community and those in need.<\/p>\n
West Berkshire Therapy Centre was \u2018very much in need of the items\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery last thing went to good use – the desks, chairs, kitchenware, monitors, every mug, every fridge and paperclip went somewhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone\u2019s been really grateful, it\u2019s been overwhelming in the sense of community, everyone has helped each other out.\u201d said Ms Le.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A company has given back after turning \u201cwhat was an office project\u201d into a meaningful collaboration with communities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[193,102,2960,192,12991,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-542571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-charity","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-human-interest","tag-newbury","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}