Did you know schools can use Warp It for free? This means you can donate items to them easily and quickly.

Not only will it help you, but the school benefits by receiving furniture, equipment, and other items that they need to operate smoothly without having to dip into their limited funding. 

In particular, schools need stationery, desks, chairs, whiteboards, and sports equipment.

These kind of items are normally hidden away, unused on a massive scale, so this feature is a perfect way to get them back into circulation and used.

Using Warp It, you can link up and make connections with local schools, and add them to your priority two or three distribution lists.

This means if your staff don't want any of your items they can be advertised further afield. (See here for explanation).

Here's a guide on how to use this feature.

• Log in as admin.
• Go to ‘Build networks’. (See this guide).
• Click the search button and insert the term schools.
• Or you can search any combination of these terms:
  1. South East Schools
  2. South West Schools
  3. East Midlands Schools
  4. West Midlands Schools
  5. North East Schools
  6. North West Schools
  7. Welsh Schools
  8. Scottish Schools
• The search results will show a list of schools on a regional basis.
• Send a friend request to the regional set of schools.
• These school will now be a part of you Priority two settings
• If you have your priority three settings open schools outside your area can still pick up your surplus assets should local schools not require them.

The benefit of befriending local schools

There are four huge benefits!

1) This is the fun part. Giving to schools is incredibly rewarding. You immediately find a good, consistent reuse route for assets that would otherwise be disposed in a skip. This is good and it reduces your workplace’s waste liability.

2) You’re building amazing relationships in the community. This is great social impact and who knows what opportunities it will unearth.

3) There is also a great news story that is awesome for PR. Giving items to struggling local schools demonstrates compassion, leadership, and environmental savviness. You’re going to look like heroes!

4) You can use this activity to re-promote Warp It to your members. Most of your Warp It users will have an affiliation with local schools, whether it’s through their kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews, or friends. So, you can take this opportunity to promote this initiative to your members. This will get your staff more involved in reuse internally and externally. 

How can you encourage your members to get their school involved?

Send them an email through Warp It.

The purpose of the email is to make members aware you're in a position to donate assets to their favourite school, and then ask members to get in touch with the school and make sure that they sign up to Warp It for free.

1. Log in as admin.
2. Click ‘email all members’.
3. Copy and paste the content of the email template below into the content creator.
4. Click send.

Here's an email template to use.

Dear Warp It members

Thankyou for using our reuse system and making it the success it is.

Did you know you can advertise assets internally and, if they're not required, they can be donated to local schools? 

If you're involved with a local school either as a parent, grandparent governor etc, then make sure the school is signed up on the system so they can access our surplus assets.

Please send your local school the following excerpt so they can sign up and start to access our service assets: 

The Warp It reuse system is a network where schools can access free corporate assets like stationery,  chairs, desks, cabinets, sports equipment, and so on. There's no charge to join and the surplus assets are free too.  Please register here to start to access free corporate assets in your area.

Need help? 

To book a screen share session to go over this feature, or any other Warp it features, please get in touch and email becky@warp-it.co.uk.

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