Heat Recruitment Donate Laptops to HITZ Students
If the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted anything it is that there still exists a large equality issue within society surrounding education. Lack of access to devices used for learning at home is a big issue in the age of home schooling, indeed Ofcom estimates that around 9% of UK children do not have access to a laptop or desktop device at home. “This generous donation will ensure that these students will have access to a laptop This was also the case for a handful of young regardless of them working from home or people on the Bristol Bears Community onsite. On behalf of the HITZ group, I would Foundation and Premiership Rugby HITZ like to thank Heat Recruitment, this will have a programme, some of this year’s cohort were significant impact on ensuring that the young forced into completing their work and aspeople get the most benefit from being on the signments on their mobile phones – making programme.” learning more difficult. Steve Preston, Managing Director at Heat HITZ is Premiership Rugby’s award-winning Recruitment, said: “Community is an education and employability programme important component to us at Heat, especially which works with over 2,000 14 to 18-yearin these current times. Giving back and olds across England every year. BBCF have supporting each other wherever possible is been delivering the HITZ programme for two one of our passions and commitments, years and have worked with around 30 partic- especially enhanced, thanks to our close ipants during this time. relationship with the Bristol Bears Community Foundation. We are extremely thankful, therefore, for the charitable contribution that we received from “Recently at Heat we have been able to assist Bristol based company Heat Recruitment who the foundation by donating laptops to local recently donated a number of laptops for the children to aid their ability to learn and partake students on the HITZ programme to use to in school lessons and help shape them for help enhance their learning experience. their full potential. We all play a vital role in the development of children and we want to take Nick George, HITZ Officer & Camps Manager a leading role in giving back to the community at Bristol Bears Community Foundation, said: with this support. “Since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic students on our HITZ programme have had “While we deeply care for our customers, we to adapt to learning online, which has been a strongly believe that we must help the youngchallenge for some as they have only had ac- est and most vulnerable and come to together cess to a mobile phone or via telephone calls. to all have a better and brighter future”. 14
