Recycle Your Mobile Phone

Date: 
15 September, 2011
Forgotten Mobile will give HHT 70% of the value of any unwanted mobile telephone. Find out how to send yours in and raise funds for Coming Home.
Text 'haig' to 60777 with your name and address for a freepost envelope for your mobile phone. You can also request a freepost envelope here.
Haig Housing Trust has joined forces with Forgotten Mobile to help raise funds for our the Coming Home campaign. Forgotten Mobile recycle old mobile phones for re-sale to Third World and Eastern European countries, giving 70% of the proceeds back to Haig Housing Trust. The average payback for an old phone is £8, and the newer the phone the greater the payback.
 
They will take any phone, regardless of age and whether it works or not. If it can be fixed easily, Forgotten Mobile will fix it before it is sold on, as working phones generate a lot more money for the charity. Not only will you be helping Haig Housing Trust, you will be reducing UK landfill and helping people in other countries buy an affordable phone.
 
If you have an old phone or two you wish to donate, there are several ways to do so:
 
  • (If you are a Haig tenant) give your phone to your Area Housing Manager during one of their visits or to your Volunteer Estate Monitor. 
  • Text 'haig' to 60777 with your name and address and Forgotten Mobile will send you a freepost envelope to return your phones in.
  • Go to Forgotten Mobile and fill in the 'Request an Envelope' form on the right of the page with your details and Forgotten Mobile will send you a freepost envelope.
Please remember to remove your SIM card before you donate your phone. Don’t worry if you think you may have personal information stored on the phone but can’t access it because the phone won’t turn on anymore – Forgotten Mobile will wipe all phones before they are recycled.
 
All monies collected will go towards the Coming Home campaign to provide specially adapted homes for seriously injured service personnel, so please have a dig around and root out those old phones. Ask family and friends if they have any too – it really is money for nothing as usually old phones are simply thrown away.