Young children are being denied their basic right to education because they cannot access online learning at home during lockdown.  This emergency fundraising appeal aims to raise £1.2million to purchase internet-enabled dongles for the households in the North of England who need to get online. Your money will help 100,000 households from Crewe to Berwick-upon-Tweed, to Carlisle to Scunthorpe and everywhere in between. Media outlets, politicians, businesses and many more organisations in the North are uniting behind this crucial cause. Staying home and staying safe shouldn’t mean you’re not connected. The appeal is part of the Laptops for Kids campaign, launched by technology entrepreneur David Richards, CEO and Founder of WANdisco, The Sheffield Star, and Learn Sheffield, and supported by the BBC Make a Difference initiative, the Northern Powerhouse Partnership and a growing number of newspapers, websites, businesses and local authorities.  Cash for Connectivity will fund the purchase of dongles - inexpensive hardware to connect laptops and up to five other devices per household to the internet.  Those backing the campaign include: Kate Green MP, shadow secretary of state for education Chi Onwurah MP, Newcastle central and Shadow Minister for Science, Research &amp; Digital Middlesbrough Football Club Foundation Teesside Philanthropic Foundation Alex Cunningham MP, Stockton North Andy McDonalds MP, Middlesbrough Simon Clarke MP, Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Jacob Young MP, Redcar Mike Hill MP, Hartlepool Emma Hardy MP, Hull West and Hessle Cat Smith MP, Lancaster and Fleetwood Judith Cummins MP, Bradford South Councillor Johnathan Pryor, Leeds City Council executive member for learning, employment and skills Tracy Brabin MP, Batley and Spen Craig Phillips, original Big Brother 1 winner, presenter and property developer Port of Tyne Northumbrian Water Vertu Motors Sunderland AFC Newcastle FC BBC Radio Sheffield AESSEAL National Lottery Heritage Fund Google UK 3Squared Gripple Direct Gas Chesterfield Benchmark Consult DLA Piper The Floow JUMP Architects City Taxis GWS Tech solutions SIG plc e-Learning Team SCC South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue RSPCA RV RUGG Wire Fabrication Frogson Investments Ltd Blancco plc Twinkl WANdisco plc Natterhub ANT Marketing R3 Finance and Leasing Association Rebuyer Code Northern Powerhouse Partnership Full list of publications backing the campaign Liverpool Echo Manchester Evening News, including MyWigan, MyBolton, MySalford and MyBury Chronicle Live including Sunderland Live, Northumberland Live, County Durham Live InYourArea Teesside Live Yorkshire Live including Leeds Live, ExaminerLive, South Yorkshire Live, North Yorkshire Live Hull Live Grimsby Live Cheshire Live LancsLive Cumbria Live Chester Chronicle Huddersfield Examiner Newcastle Chronicle Newcastle Journal Grimsby Telegraph Hull Daily Mail Teesside Gazette Accrington Observer Rossendale Free Press Southport Visiter Northern Echo St Helens Star Warrington Guardian Lancashire Telegraph Bolton News

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