Woodingdean Primary School signs up to The Martlets Mobile Phone Recycling Scheme

The Martlets Hospice have a Mobile Phone Recycling Scheme in each of the Martlets charity shops, and from 2013, the scheme is being introduced in local schools and business.

16 local primary schools have signed up to the scheme – Woodingdean Primary School included – that passes on the old phones to developing countries that have no telephone landline infrastructures.

The scheme saves space in UK landfill sites by those in the developing countries reusing the mobile phones and will be used as a topic for school sustainability programmes.

The following schools have recently signed up to the programme:

Benfield Primary School
Bevendean Primary School
Elm Grove Primary School
Middle Street Primary School
Queen's Park Primary School
St Andrew’s CE Primary School
St Bernadette’s CE Primary School
St Margaret’s CE Primary School
St Mark’s CE Primary School
St Mary’s RC Primary School
St Paul’s CE Primary School
Westdene Primary School
Whitehawk Primary School
St Bartholomew's CE Primary School
St John The Baptist's RC Primary School
And Woodingdean Primary School

To get involved with the scheme and support the Martlets this way, please email Angela Woodall angela.woodall@themartletshospice.co.uk and request a fundraising kit.

You can donate to the Hospice via the Woodingdean in Business’s JustGiving Page.