Friends of Alne School has just begun a campaign to raise a massive £2500 to provide vital IT equipment for the school. 

I hope to raise £300 towards this total by giving a virtual performance over Zoom. Sit back, relax, and enjoy an hour long concert in the comfort of your own home! 

Please make a donation, large or small, to receive the Zoom link. (This will be emailed to you within the JustGiving receipt). All donations will be very gratefully received and all proceeds will go directly to the campaign.

The concert will begin at 3.00 pm, but the Zoom meeting will be live from 2.30. Please contact me at cellohelen@gmail.com if you have difficulties or for any reason do not receive the concert link.

The Friends of Alne School Campaign:

Over the last 12 months it has become clear that the majority of the IT equipment used by children in the classrooms is no longer fit for purpose. Attempts to get Government and Council funding for this have failed so The Friends of Alne School have decided, with your help, to do something about it.

Each classroom needs new laptops and tablets. At present there are 40 computers in the school but these are all over 7 years old. 12 of the machines are still running Windows 7 which was last supported by Microsoft in 2011!? Not only are these machines slow and unreliable but they have to be shared by all 111 children. That's one between three! In Covid times, due to quarantine procedures, this is almost impossible.

We've set an initial fundraising target of £2500. This will allow the school to buy 10 Chromebooks. Whilst this is a good start we hope to be able to do more.

Please support our fundraising efforts as generously as you can!

Using Zoom

Many people will already be familiar with using Zoom. If you have not used Zoom before then this tutorial might be of help:

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-Joining-a-meeting