Age Concern Mobile Phone Recycling Initiative

Age Concern Northern Ireland Mobile Phone Recycling Initiative
With National Recycling week starting on 2nd June, Age Concern Northern Ireland are using the opportunity to launch a major new Mobile Phone Recycling Initiative

Did you know?

•	In the UK we throw away 15 million handsets a year. Fewer than 10 per cent are recycled, with some 100 million left to gather dust in people’s drawers
•	Phones discarded in land-fill sites can leak poisonous chemicals from their batteries into the earth and give off toxic fumes
•	New EU guidelines and UK legislation have been introduced to help minimise the environmental harm caused by throwing away mobile phones

Mobile phone recycling - Helping Older People across Northern Ireland
Every mobile phone you recycle on behalf of Age Concern Northern Ireland will help us to fund our Advice and Advocacy Service.

The Advice and Advocacy Service provides older people, their families and carers with easy access to essential advice, information and advocacy support on Community Care issues, Housing matters, Legal Issues, Residential Care, Tax issues and Welfare Benefits.

During 2006-2007 our Advice and Advocacy Service provided information, advice, casework and advocacy support for 3345 callers with 4105 queries and carried out 6305 pieces of work on their behalf.

This work spanned everything from writing a letter, to negotiating with creditors to agree debt management plans, providing emotional support to distressed callers and supporting older people to get access to the benefits and services to which they are entitled.

The Age Concern Northern Ireland Advice and Advocacy Service is a free service and advice may be obtained in person, by telephone, post or via email. All enquiries are treated in the strictest confidence.

Mobile phone recycling – How you can help
Do you have an unwanted mobile phone sitting at home? Donate it to Age Concern and you can help raise vital funds to make later life and enjoyable and fulfilling experience for older people in Northern Ireland. By donating just 10 mobile phones you will:

• Make older people with a disability aware of benefits and social care packages

• Increase benefit take up and make older people aware of their entitlements

• Help older people tackle the issue of debt

• Help with attendance allowance forms that can take up to 90 minutes to complete

• Assist Age Concern’s 30 local groups provide an invaluable range of services and activities for older people in our community

To help our work with older people in the community all you have to do is recycle that old mobile phone

Interested?
• Put your old mobile phone, plus battery and charger if possible, into an envelope.
• Send it to this freepost address :

FREEPOST
SHP Solutions
Lancaster

Please mark clearly that the phone is supporting Age Concern NI

If you have collected 10 or more mobile phones you can arrange a free collection by emailing us direct (click here)

To find out more about how your school or business can participate in this scheme please email your full contact details to AmyGregg@ageconcernni.org.