THE TIER YOUR RECOVERY
PARTNER WON’T MONETISE
STILL WORKS.
Every decommissioning programme has a bottom tier: hardware that still boots, still passes diagnostics, and is worth less on the secondary market than it costs to process. It goes to shred because there is nowhere sensible for it to go.
We are that somewhere. A documented downstream reuse route that sits alongside your existing recovery partner rather than replacing them — with serial-level custody, sanitisation to a standard your security team will accept, and an outcome you can put in a report.
WHAT WE ARE, AND WHAT WE ARE NOT
WE ARE
- A UK social enterprise that refurbishes working hardware and places it with schools, charities and young people.
- An Environment Agency registered waste carrier — CBDU607333, verifiable on the public register.
- A downstream partner you can name in your own reporting, with a disposition record per serial number.
- Comfortable being audited on any of the above, because all of it is checkable.
WE ARE NOT
- A hyperscale ITAD. We are not bidding to replace the partner who handles your resale tier, and we would not win if we did.
- ADISA certified or ISO 27001 certified. We do not hold either today and we say so on our certifications page.
- A rack-and-stack decommissioning contractor. We collect what has already been pulled; we do not do the pull.
- Able to absorb unlimited volume. Tell us the number and we will tell you straight what we can take and what we cannot.
That list costs us work in the short term. It is here because a claim that does not survive a procurement check costs considerably more.
WHAT WE WANT FROM THE PULL
Broadly: anything with a keyboard or a screen, plus the generation of general-purpose kit that has dropped below your recovery partner’s handling threshold.
End-of-support client hardware
Laptops and desktops off a refresh cycle, including machines that fall short of the Windows 11 requirement. Those still have years of useful life under a supported Linux desktop or as Chromebook-class devices.
Monitors, docks and peripherals
Consistently the hardest thing for a recipient organisation to source and the least interesting to a resale channel. We will take these on their own.
Older-generation workstations
Machines that were specified for engineering or media work and are now three or four generations back. They make outstanding donated devices.
Functional kit below the resale floor
If the disposition decision was made on handling cost rather than on the hardware being dead, it is the tier this page is about.
Drives, and anything else your security policy will not release, do not have to come with it. We would rather take a chassis with the storage already removed than have that be the reason the conversation stops.
WHAT YOU GET BACK, AND WHEN
- 01
AT COLLECTION
A signed manifest at the point of handover. Custody is documented from your loading bay, not from when the vehicle gets back.
- 02
AT INTAKE
Every unit logged by make, model and serial number, reconciled against the manifest. Any discrepancy is reported to you before we go further.
- 03
AT SANITISATION
Any storage that arrives with the hardware is sanitised to NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1, method selected by media type, with verification run per drive. Anything failing verification is physically destroyed rather than passed on.
- 04
AT DISPOSITION
A report by serial number: reused, or recycled, and which organisation received it. Alongside WEEE waste transfer documentation and a certificate of data destruction.
- 05
AFTERWARDS
A social value summary written to go into a report or a tender response, covering what the reused hardware was actually used for.
The detail of the sanitisation process is on our data destruction page, and how we calculate every impact figure we publish is on our methodology page.
A NOTE ON SOCIAL VALUE, WRITTEN HONESTLY
If you bid for UK central government work, the Social Value Model changed. PPN 026 applies to procurements commenced on or after 1 January 2027 with a total contract value of £1m or above, and carries a minimum weighting of 10% between £1m and £5m, rising to 20% at £5m and above.
Here is the part most providers will not tell you: it scores two outcomes only — good jobs offering fair pay and good working conditions, and skills, meaning activities that address skills shortages. There is no environmental theme and no digital inclusion theme. So donating hardware, on its own, does not score.
What can contribute is the activity the hardware makes possible: training, retraining and talent pipeline work with people who are out of work or out of education. That is the part we can evidence with you, and it is why our placements are weighted towards young people not in education, employment or training.
We are not your social value consultant and this is not advice on your bid. It is the honest version of a claim you will see written far more loosely elsewhere, and you should read the model yourself — PPN 026 is published in full on GOV.UK.
START THE CONVERSATION
Decommissioning programmes are planned months out, and we would rather be in the conversation early than be a phone call the week the skips are booked. Nothing below commits you to anything.
IF THIS IS BIGGER THAN YOUR JOB
A single site, an office refresh or a cupboard nobody has opened since 2019 is a different conversation and a much faster one — book a business collection instead.