Press coverage gets Margate boy an iPad

Read the full newspaper article here: http://www.thanetgazette.co.uk/Margate-mother-s-plea-old-mobile-phones-help/story-19536509-detail/story.html


Could an iPad help your child too?

If you live in Britain, simply collect 165 old mobile phones and the Manchester-based charity Hearts and Minds will exchange them for a new iPad.

Details here:

Website: : heartsandmindsphones.co.uk/
Facebook: facebook.com/HeartsAndMindsUK 

Twitter: @handmchallenge

Pinterest: Hearts and Minds

YouTube: HeartsAndMindsUK

Google+: Hearts and Minds

More about the charity here: Hearts & Minds Challenge

In the News: February 2013

Lots more families, like this one, have been requesting help from local papers to build their old phone collections, to get an iPad through the Hearts and Minds mobile phone recycling scheme: 

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Haverhill/App-would-help-Oliver-learn-22022013.htm 

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2013/02/06/donate-a-phone-to-help-kids-just-like-kind-hemlington-girl-lucy-jo-84229-32755467/ 

http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/iPad-help-autistic-lad/story-18246861-detail/story.html#axzz2MllE5JM7 

http://www.tinytots-online.co.uk/charity-work/

http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2013-03-04/mum-appeals-for-old-mobile-phones-to-help-autistic-son/ 

http://www.sudburymercury.co.uk/news/thomas_calls_for_old_mobile_phones_1_1927930 

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-communities/bootle/bootle-news/2013/02/12/bootle-mum-thanks-those-who-helped-her-autistic-son-100252-32794076/ 

There was also coverage of the Three Peaks Challenge, one of several sporting challenges that anyone can join in with, to help raise funds for Hearts and Minds and children with autism:

http://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/news/10250396.Messenger_backed_charity_seeks_daredevils_for_Three_Peaks_Challenge/

More information here about the sporting challenges:

http://www.heartsandmindschallenge.org/eventinformation/

Could an iPad help your child too?

If you live in Britain, simply collect 165 old mobile phones and the Manchester-based charity Hearts and Minds will exchange them for a new iPad.

Details here:

Website: : heartsandmindsphones.co.uk/
Facebook: facebook.com/HeartsAndMindsUK  

In the news - September 2012

More than 900 families have now registered with the Hearts and Minds iPad scheme and many are finding that a good way to collect old mobile phones is to get an article in the local paper or on-line.  Here are some recent examples...

A Daventry Mum is appealing for phones to get an iPad for 13 year old Callum, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

http://www.daventryexpress.co.uk/news/local/mum-appeals-for-support-to-help-son-with-disorder-1-4214612

Swansea Mum Carley Owen thanks readers for their help and asks for more.

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Readers-help-answer-mum-s-phones/story-16711587-detail/story.html

A Cornish autism support group has a lovely write up about the Hearts and Minds challenge.

http://cornwallautismsupport.com/help-a-child-with-autism-communicate-with-the-world-they-live-in/

Mum Anne Stone (@okesanne) writes a heart-warming blog about life with 5 children, two of whom have autism.  Recently she registered for the Hearts and Minds scheme and she explains why in this post.

http://babyno5.blogspot.ie/2012/08/plea-for-old-mobile-phones.html

If your child needs an iPad please check out Hearts and Minds:

Website: http://www.heartsandmindsphones.co.uk/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HeartsAndMindsUK
Twitter: @handmchallenge

This scheme began in Ireland: http://www.autismirelandphones.ie/