Each month the club gives away refurbished computers to the best
letters received. Just write in and tell us how the computer would help!
Free computer, 29-35 Ripon road, Blackpool FY1 4DY
December 2006 winner
The December computer has been awarded early ,
(in time for Christmas)
Dear Sir
My name is (name removed) and I am 9 years old but nearly 10.
I live with my Nana and Grandad because my mum died when I was a baby. She had a poorly heart and a new one didn't come in time, and my daddy lives away with his new family.
My nana can't walk very well and my granddad looks after her. They do try to get me things, and I do get things but a computer is too much money for them. If I had a computer I would be able to do my home work on it like my friends and look things up on the internet to help me at school and I could teach my Nana and Grandad.
Name removed
November 2006 winnerDear Sir\Madam,
I was interested to learn about your various projects to make computing more accessible to the local community on the blackpool4me website, particularly your monthly free PC competition.
I am writing as Chairman of radio Victoria, the Blackpool Hospitals Radio service. In common with all the other hospital radio stations around the UK, radio Victoria is run entirely by a group of dedicated volunteers, who each give up a few hours of their spare time each week to visit patients in Victoria hospital, collect their record requests, and present the programmes. We are on the air each evening, with additional daytime shows at the weekend, and our aim is to provide a uniquely personalised radio service that is both informative and entertaining for those people unlucky enough to be stuck in hospital!
It goes without saying that the station is run on a shoestring budget. We rely on charitable donations and our own fundraising efforts to keep the station on the air and to pay for new broadcasting equipment as and when it is required. We have a computerised record library, but our present PC is a slow elderly machine that was previously thrown out by the health authority! In addition, we are exploring the possibility of installing an automated playout system in our studio which would effectively enable us to extend our hospital broadcasting to 24 hours a day, thus providing a real alternative to the other mainstream radio stations available to patients. To enable us to proceed with this idea, we would need to acquire a second PC.
We would be delighted therefore if you would consider us a worthy recipient of one of your free computers, which we could put to very good use in either of the situations detailed above. If we are lucky enough to be chosen as a winner, we would also be more than happy to provide some on air publicity to highlight the valuable work you do.
Yours Faithfully
John Hunter
Chairman
October 2006 winner
Dear Sir\Madam,Dear Sir\Madam,
Re: Computer competition for month of October 2006
Hi there, my name is Jenny.
What a wonderful opportunity to arrive at my doorstep! Briefly, I have been unemployed due to ill health for approximately six years. When I was in employment I worked in the legal profession for many many years and was very computer literate. I am desperate to own a computer in order to refresh my computer knowledge together with the ultimate aim to getting “ my life back on track”. I hardly am able to go out as much as one would wish due to suffering from arthritis in my legs, and owning a computer would open up many doors for me, one of which would be making myself available to the community in the capacity of assisting with typing up of various documents etc. Having legal experience has instilled in me a sense of trustworthiness and honesty, which I know would be vital ingredient in this community.
On a more humorous note, I do not object to my photograph being taken despite the fact that I am fast approaching ‘60’ and am no glamour girl! Having said that I do have a pleasant personality and my vocation in life now is to help others when and wherever possible.
In conclusion I do sincerely hope this lengthy letter has not bored it’s reader(s) and I hope it has won me one of your computers
Thank You
Yours sincerely
Miss Jenny Edwards
September 2006 winner
A young school girl wins with this letter.
Dear Sir
I would like a free computer because it would help me with my homework and I can talk to my friends on it and I don’t have a computer at home. My friends always ask if I have a computer and I say yes but really I don’t have one at all. So it would help me a great deal. I could also use a computer to do my homework from school, I am in year 8, and the homework I would do with one would make it look and read better.
Yours sincerely
Name and address removed.
August 2006 winner
Beata Splawske, a young polish woman won the August computer.
Beata says:-
The computer will help me to improve my English language skills.
July 2006 winner The winner of our very first monthly competion, held in July 2006 was a thirteen year old schoolboy.
David won the computer because he was the only entry that month!
David says:-
"I can now get my homework done when I want, instead of having to wait for the family computer to be available"