Over the years, our charity stall has raised some £15,000 for good causes. At Wakefield 2012 we will again be selling donated goods in aid of Wakefield Hospice, and we will also be accepting mobile phones and used inkjet cartridges on behalf of the Hospice. Regrettably, we will not be accepting laser toner cartridges due to their bulk and the risk of spillage, but these can be sent or delivered direct to the Hospice warehouse instead.

Phones and cartridges

Just bring them along to the show, and deposit them in the boxes provided on the stall. Please make sure that the items are securely bagged and clearly labelled, and in the case of mobile phones it would help to include any chargers and accessories, but do remember to remove the SIM card beforehand.

Donating goods

Whilst we welcome donations of goods for sale on the Charity Stall, the Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE) regulations limit what we can accept, as we would have to pay for the disposal of any unsold large electrical and electronic items like computers, monitors and printers. Also, we need to be selective about what other goods we can accept, to avoid a significant proportion of it being left unsold, with the inevitable storage and disposal problem that this would create.

We are therefore issuing these guidelines as to what goods are considered unsuitable and which will not be accepted except by prior arrangement:

• No non-RISC OS computer base units, or older RISC OS units – however RiscPCs, A7000+s and Iyonixes are acceptable
• No dot matrix printers
• No inkjet printers, laser printers and all-in-one printer/scanners, unless of relatively recent manufacture and in good condition (please check beforehand)
• No budget inkjet printers with empty cartridges
• No SCSI or parallel port scanners – only those with a USB port are acceptable
• No CRT monitors or TVs
• No hardware that is faulty or in poor condition, or incomplete (including associated documentation and software)
• No old and/or obsolete hardware or software that is unlikely to attract a buyer
• No magazines on any media, whether printed paper or disc/CD
• No used removable data media (e.g. floppy discs)
• No copied software – it must be on original media
• No domestic audio-visual equipment, unless of relatively recent manufacture and in good condition (please check beforehand)

If you are in any doubt, or have something that is excluded by the above, but which you feel would still be likely to attract a buyer, then please contact the organisers beforehand using the details provided on the Enquiries page of the Show web site.

Computers that are not acceptable can be recycled free of charge (in most cases) at your local council waste disposal site. If not, then consult Waste Online for your nearest facility – www.wasteonline.org.uk.

Delivering items

Please bring items to the stall as early as possible on the day, to allow maximum time to sell them on. We regret that we cannot accept goods in advance of the show date.

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