Hull is a city where digital exclusion isn’t just an inconvenience, it’s a barrier to survival. In some neighbourhoods, over half of residents face severe deprivation, lacking both the devices [...]
We Got the Box! And It’s Everything We’ve Been Waiting For Last week, a big, unassuming box arrived at Jangala HQ. It wasn’t just another shipment — it was the [...]
We were thrilled to join Westhull Community Centre’s Family Fun Day. As the Centre welcomed back their “good friend Mark Kelly” for an afternoon sing-along, we set up our pop-up [...]
Refurbit recently collected over 50 laptops, 20 servers, and a range of desk phones, plugs, routers and more from The One Point. Devices that could have become e‑waste are now [...]
On Sunday 17 August, we joined the Hull community at Foster Fest 2025, a free celebration of fostering, adoption, and care families, organised by Foster for Hull. The Kingswood United FC ground was buzzing [...]
At Refurbit, we’re always excited when passionate people choose to join our mission, and this month, we’re thrilled to welcome our first volunteer, who’ll be helping us. Every pair of [...]
So you’re looking for an accounting/invoicing solution that’s a bit more advanced than Excel sheets and Word documents — one that keeps your data private and doesn’t charge you monthly? [...]
Refurbit joined the HU7 Youth Summit for an afternoon of hands-on tech nostalgia, curiosity, and community spirit! We brought along a throwback collection of retro and reused electronics, from vintage [...]
At Refurbit, we’re proud to announce that we’ve become one of the first signatory of the UK Government’s IT Reuse for Good Charter, a nationwide initiative aimed at tackling digital [...]
If you're running a Linux server with a GUI (Debian 12 used in this example), it might be worth converting a desktop install into a lightweight, headless system. Doing so [...]
