Warwickshire Museum launches phones for Pudsey appeal
Warwickshire Museum Service needs your help to raise money for this year’s BBC Children in Need Appeal.
Warwickshire Museum Service needs your help to raise money for this year’s BBC Children in Need Appeal.
Each visitor who drops an old mobile phone handset into the Museum’s special Pudsey phone bin can help raise £5 for Children in Need.
The Museum will send all the mobile phones collected in the Pudsey phone bin for recycling. For every re-usable phone received, Children in Need will receive £5.
Sue Shirley of Warwickshire Museums commented: “With most of us changing our mobile phones every couple of years, you can end up with old handsets tucked away at home gathering dust which can be put to good use. If we collect just 100 mobile phones in our Pudsey phone bin we’ll be able to raise an incredible £500 for Children in Need! All handsets collected will be sent for recycling. Any phones that cannot be re-used will be recycled ensuring that nothing ends up in landfill. “
The museum’s appeal will run until the end of December 2007.
All the phones collected must be re-usable and have their SIM cards removed before being dropped in the bin.
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For further information about this appeal or to arrange for images, please contact the Museum on 01926 412500/2501 or visit our website at http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/museum
The BBC Children in Need appeal helps disadvantaged children and young people across the UK.
Last year’s appeal raised £33 million.
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