A SOUTHAMPTON-based charity for the homeless and vulnerable has
been donated top-draw office equipment by
The Office Design Team (ODT).
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The Society of St James will use the items for its
latest project, a drug treatment and support service in
New Milton in the New Forest.
Swivel chairs, work stations, filing cabinets,
partitions, carpet tiles, fire doors and a huge
oval-shaped conference table worth 10,000 new were
presented by ODT director Andrew Saunders.
The quality goods were left behind by a firm at Cams
Hall in Fareham which relocated abroad.
ODT won a 40,000 contract to
refurbish the vacant office last month (February 2009) and
Andrew knew there was only one home for the office equipment –
The Society of St James, which touches the lives of up to 3,000
people a year and has 150 paid staff and 50 volunteers.
He said: “We had previously refurbished the
charity’s
premises at College Street in Southampton, and got to
understand the great work it does in reaching out to the
less fortunate.”
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Mike Taylor of The Society of St James, left, and
Andrew Saunders of The Office Design Team on donated
office chairs outside the charity’s IT recycling project
centre near the former Meridian TV studios in
Southampton |
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Mike Taylor, the charity’s operations director, said: “This was
a wonderful gesture by The Office Design Team and we’re
delighted to say the office equipment will be put to good use at
our new drug treatment and support service at Whitefield
Road, New Milton. The donation has spared us
considerable cost.”
The presentation was carried out at the charity’s IT recycling
project, called Jamie’s Computers, at Mount Pleasant Road in
Southampton, by the former Meridian TV studios.
More than 100 tons of IT, much of it donated by local companies,
are recycled every year, with the goods exported to impoverished
countries.
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For more information on The Society of St James, click on to
www.ssj.co.uk