The Arthur Rank Centre
Arthur Rank Centre - Computers for Rural People
If you live in a rural area, whether on a farm miles from anywhere, or even in a country town, you sometimes have no option but to spend time travelling about to ‘get things done’ (that’s in addition to commuting of course!).
Email and Internet provide enormous opportunities when you can’t just pop round the corner to, for example, the shop or the library. Yet computers are usually expensive items, and few people want to buy one “just to see if one day it might be useful”.
Once you have one and know how to use it, and appreciate what it can do, you don’t mind paying. But that first step is often inhibited by the cost.
The Arthur Rank Centre is committed to supporting the rural community, and has set up the “Computers for Rural People” scheme to provide computers at very low cost to encourage people to take the first step. So…….
- If you are retired or approaching retirement, and have seen how your own computer could enrich your life
- If you are a really busy person, and find that organising things by telephone and letter are just too slow, or
- If you have children at school, and want them to be able to keep up with their work….
….the Arthur Rank Centre can help you. At a really low price the Foundation can provide a computer of your own, pre-loaded with Microsoft software, and delivered to your door, to get you started.
The Arthur Rank Centre has made an arrangement with the global charity Oasis, to supply re-furbished computers at charity prices. The charity simply asks that you make a voluntary donation of just £12 minimum to the Arthur Rank Centre to cover costs and to help its charitable work.
Get in touch to see if the Centre can supply what you need at a price you can easily afford. If you already have access to a Computer and the Internet, you can order directly from Oasis by going to the website http://www.oasiscfc.org and click the “Purchase Computers” tab.
For more information about this scheme, go their website:
www.arthurrankcentre.org.uk/projects/computers_for_rural_people
last updated on 26th May 2011