Syscap Foundation 

Our chosen charities

Of the money raised throughout the year, 75% goes to Express Link-Up, a charity that brings ICT to children that are hospitalised, housebound or underprivileged around the world. The other 25% goes to a number of similar charities in the UK and abroad.

Express Link-Up

Express Link-Up was established in January 1997 to provide computer equipment, Internet links and teaching resources to UK hospital schools and children who are sick at home. Its activities have expanded to bring technology to underprivileged children around the world. To date, it has helped 247 hospitals in the UK and abroad.

 

The charity’s patron is Carol Vorderman, and lists Cherie Booth QC is among its supporters.

 

Pat Ryans, CEO of Express Link-Up, says of the Syscap Foundation: '”It is always gratifying when an IT company adopts a charity such as ours, which is aimed at children in hospital, whose education is improved by access to IT on the wards or in the hospital classrooms.

 

“Express Link-Up provides this support for all the hospital schools in the UK, but our partnership with Syscap will target some special projects: The Royal Marsden Children's Cancer Unit in Sutton, Surrey, the four HIV/AIDS After-School IT programmes in New York for teenagers who were abandoned or orphaned and the Holy Cross Convent in Cape Town where nuns are running literacy programmes for parents and children, using the equipment and software we have donated.”