…there are many examples of the difference that these generous donations can make to so many people. We would like to thank the team at Cool Breeze and their clients who have donated their devices to this cause.

 

 

During the pandemic schools were struggling to find enough devices for their children to use at home. Families, too were finding home-schooling and a lack of access to technology, laptops and computers, for their children adding to the stress of supporting their children to learn at home.

 

 

During the early part of 2021, the team at Cool Breeze asked clients and local community to help with donations of unwanted laptops and other devices.  The response was overwhelming and amazing.  To date we have collected, reconfigured and updated over 180 devices that have been distributed to 27 schools across Warwickshire. 

 

 

This project though, has taken on a life of its own and we now support three local charities with reconfigured laptops for their clients.   Young carers, refugees and other families in need have all benefitted from these donations from our lovely customers and local community.

 

 

The difference this has made to so many lives cannot be understated. The team at Cool Breeze have decided that the work must go on in some form, so we are committed to give our time and expertise to enable the Gift of Cool Technology to reach those in need. 

 

 

We recently teamed up with Ricardo plc who kindly donated a number of laptops that have been refreshed and distributed to some of the charities we support.  Henry from P3 got in touch to tell us just how critical these donations were to some of the people that P3 supports.   

 

 

‘We are so delighted to be partnering with the team at Cool Breeze and their clients. We wanted to tell you about some of the clients that your generosity has supported so far.  We know that technology is such a huge barrier to so many of our clients.  Lack of access to appropriate technology can prevent them from returning to or accessing education, increase feelings of isolation and severely affect mental health and well-being’     Henry Webster P3

 

 

 

What a difference it has made to …

 

 

• Two young people in supported accommodation in Nuneaton who are now able to return to education
• One of our clients given a laptop to access e-learning and maintain contact with their family
• A family with children who have learning difficulties have had a donated laptop to help them with their schoolwork

 

 

If you have any devices/laptops that you would like to donate to our ‘Gift of Cool Technology’ project we would love to hear from you.  We will make sure that the devices are wiped, reconfigured and updated so that they can be safely and securely donated to our (or your) chosen causes. 

 

 

Please get in touch with us through our website contact form

 

 

https://www.coolbreezetechnologyservices.co.uk/contact/

 

We are very pleased to introduce Ian, who started working with the Cool Breeze team at the beginning of May.  Ian had been running his own IT business in Manchester for three years until his wife’s job brought them to Leamington Spa in 2018, where she took up her post as vicar of St Marks Church. Ian has been married to Jo for 35 years and they have two children aged 24 and 22 – both of whom are now doing second degrees. 

Shortly after arriving in Leamington, Ian started working at a local Special Education Needs School as an ICT Technician, then being promoted to Senior ICT Technician.  Ian’s role at the school was focussed on supporting staff and pupils with the day-to-day IT issues as they arose and coaching school staff on how to make the most of their IT equipment.  Ian was also involved with a number of substantial infrastructure and upgrade projects that improved both the security and effectiveness of the school systems overall.

Ian’s interest in IT started ‘from the very first moment he got his hands on a PC in 1984’ and has remained a passion ever since. At university he completed his degree in Analytical Chemistry and worked in that field for 14 years, but it was always the computer side of the work that Ian liked more hence his reason for moving into IT as a career.

Outside of work Ian has been doing Tai Chi for about 35 years, he cycles whenever he can and is passionate about the environment and Green IT.  Green IT is about making IT as carbon neutral as possible both in it’s design, build and disposal but also in the way that it enables people/businesses to become carbon neutral too. Ian will normally have three books on the go and currently he has an ‘easy read’, a business book (Messy by Tim Harford) and a hobby/interest one – the environment or gardening are the favourites. He and Jo spend a week every year holidaying in Norfolk just relaxing.  Other holidays tend to involve more vigorous activity like sea kayaking, coasteering, surfing and body boarding…

What first attracted Ian to work for Cool Breeze?  When Ian first came to speak to Gary, they both talked about how important customer care was. Looking after customers first and foremost came before the IT and this resonated.  Ian says ‘I had a list of things that I wanted from the business I worked for.  I didn’t tick any of those things but the way Gary talked about the importance of putting customers first, I just knew that this was the right job for me’ 

Ian is already proving his worth and his insightful ability to get to the heart of a problem and quickly suggest solutions fits in perfectly with the Cool Breeze ethos of helping customers get their IT up and running as quickly as possible. 

Thank you for sending Ian, yesterday. .I am sure he will be a great asset to your Company.

I was most grateful for all the help he gave me.  

Jean – June 2021

Ian hopes that his passion for the environment and all things green (he has an electric car and bike!) will allow him to be more involved in developing ways that Cool Breeze can help the environment and the local community even more.  Thinking pro-actively about how devices and technology equipment can be renewed, repurposed and recycled and then potentially donated to schools and other charities and so continuing to benefit people and the environment is something he is keen to progress within his role at Cool Breeze.