Donate your old phones with Three UK!

Christmas is on the horizon, and lots of Brits will be hitting the high street looking to switch out their current phone for a new one. With many coming in store to take advantage of Three’s offers, Scarlett Moffatt has teamed up with the UK’s Fastest 5G Network to ask people to donate their unused handsets.

To encourage donations, Three has made a pledge to collect 10,000 old phones to help connect disadvantaged people – launching at its flagship London store.

New research from Three has revealed that on average there are at least three unused phones sat in every UK household, that’s 84.3 million across the UK. With over a third (37%) saying they do this because they don’t know what else to do with them.

Three is offering people the chance to give the gift of connectivity by donating an old phone that will go to someone in need. Despite the rise in cost of living, the nation’s spirit of giving is stronger than ever. Three quarters (73%) of Brits intend to carry out a charitable act during the festive period and a further 76% state they want to find out how they can make a difference this year.

For those people, the good news is that there is an easy, no-cost way for people to make the most of their old tech. With so many unused handsets gathering dust, Three has joined forces with star of Gogglebox and former Queen of the Jungle, Scarlett Moffatt – calling on all of us to dig deep into our drawers this year and donate our old phones. Scarlett and Three aim to receive 10,000 phones between Black Friday and the end of the year.

Through Three’s Reconnected programme, donated handsets are received, reset, and revamped with six-months of unlimited data, texts and calls complimentary from Three. These are then distributed amongst charity partners, LetsLocalise, Business in the Community and Good Things Foundation, who gift them to disadvantaged people.