Recycling computers. Supporting good causes.

FREE Computer Recycling for Charity

Your unwanted IT equipment can do more than avoid landfill. At CPR, suitable computers are securely processed, tested and given another useful life — while our Not for Profit organisation supports charities and good causes across the UK.

We are especially proud to support St Catherine's Hospice, our largest charity recipient. It's one of the ways we turn responsible computer recycling into a positive contribution to our local community.

Check & Book a FREE Collection →Our charity support

FREE collections are available when your location and equipment qualify. Standard local services can be free from as few as five qualifying items; other locations have different requirements.

CPR-style computer refurbishment team testing and preparing redundant laptops and desktop computers for reuse

Our largest charity recipient

Supporting St Catherine's Hospice

St Catherine's Hospice provides specialist palliative and end-of-life care to people living with life-limiting conditions across West Sussex and East Surrey. Its teams support patients and their families at the hospice in Pease Pottage, in the community and in people's homes.

St Catherine's has been a major beneficiary of CPR's charitable giving. We believe supporting compassionate local care is a meaningful way for a successful computer recycling operation to give something back.

Learn about the care St Catherine's Hospice provides →

Simple, direct and transparent

How our computer recycling charity scheme works

You don't need to make a cash donation to help. Simply arrange for CPR to collect your old computers and other suitable IT equipment. Our business handles collection, data security, refurbishment, reuse and responsible recycling.

Arrange your collection. Use our online collection checker to tell us what you have and where it is.

We process your IT responsibly. Suitable equipment is assessed for data erasure, testing, refurbishment and reuse; unusable items follow appropriate recycling routes.

Charities benefit from CPR's profits. Following our charitable giving policy, a proportion of annual company profits is set aside to support UK charities, including St Catherine's Hospice.

Where does the donation go? The entire amount allocated by CPR as a charitable donation goes to the chosen charity — we do not deduct an administration or processing fee from that allocated donation. This does not mean every penny of company revenue or profit is donated.

CPR Computer Recycling charity-support presentation representing donations to UK good causes

Our charitable giving story

Why we changed the way we donate to UK charities

In CPR's early years, charitable donations were based primarily on profits from retail sales. Organisations we supported included St Catherine's Hospice, Chestnut Tree House and Crawley Open House, alongside other worthwhile causes.

As our business evolved towards more trade and wholesale activity, retail sales represented a smaller proportion of what we did. Our original donation approach therefore no longer reflected the wider business.

In 2019, we changed the policy: rather than linking giving to retail sales alone, we began allocating a proportion of the wider company's annual profits after operating costs and taxes. Since then, our donations to worthwhile causes have more than doubled and continue to increase year by year as the business develops.

It remains a simple principle: a business can operate successfully, provide employment, reuse valuable technology and support good causes at the same time.

Our Not for Profit approach

Giving back while investing in a sustainable future

Supporting charities is an important part of CPR's approach, alongside reducing electronic waste and investing in responsible operations.

Reuse before recycling

We aim to extend the life of suitable computers and IT equipment through data sanitisation, testing, refurbishment and reuse, rather than treating every collected device as scrap.

Support UK charities

A proportion of annual profits supports charities and good causes, with St Catherine's Hospice our largest recipient.

Invest in sustainability

We have invested in initiatives including more efficient vehicles, energy-saving facilities and measures designed to reduce the environmental impact of our operations.

Reducing our environmental impact

Carbon-neutral collections through carbon offsetting

As well as helping to reduce electronic waste through reuse and recycling, CPR makes annual financial contributions to carbon-offset projects across the UK and Europe. These contributions are intended to offset carbon emissions associated with our collection activities.

Through this offsetting approach, we regard our collection activities as carbon neutral through offsetting. Our vehicles still generate emissions: carbon offsetting is a separate measure designed to balance their impact, not a claim that our transport is zero-emission.

How you can help

Turn your unwanted computers into something positive

Whether you're a business, school, healthcare organisation, charity or even a private individual, giving your equipment a second life through responsible recycling is a practical way to support our work.

Book a FREE qualifying collection using our online checker. If you only have a few items, our Send Direct service offers an alternative with courier collection advertised from £2.95, subject to quotation. You can also help by sharing this page or visiting St Catherine's Hospice to find out more about its work.

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Computer recycling for charity: common questions

Does CPR donate all profits to charity?

No. CPR allocates a proportion of annual profits to charitable causes. The full amount allocated as a donation goes to its chosen recipient without an administration charge being deducted from that donation.

Is computer collection free?

It can be. In standard local collection areas, as few as five qualifying items may be enough for a FREE collection. Pallet-served areas may have different minimums, and the online checker will show available options.

What happens to confidential data?

Data-bearing equipment is assessed for secure sanitisation using CPR's VerifyErase procedures where supported. Storage media that cannot be reliably sanitised is handled through an appropriate destruction or controlled disposal route.

Which charity does CPR support?

CPR has supported several UK charities over the years. St Catherine's Hospice is our largest charity recipient, with the organisation providing specialist support to people affected by life-limiting conditions and their families in West Sussex and East Surrey.

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