Retire Your IT Where It Does Some Good

We take your end-of-life laptops, desktops and monitors, wipe every drive, and rebuild what we can for Victorians who can't afford a computer. The rest is recycled locally.

Donating One or Two Items? Arrange a Bulk or Business Donation

Donating One or Two Items?

Just as welcome, and the same care: your drive is wiped, the machine is rebuilt with Linux, and anything beyond repair is recycled locally.

What we accept

Laptops (all brands)

What we don't accept

Desktops, monitors, tablets and phones (bulk donations only)
Printers, scanners, or miscellaneous cables
TVs and other electrical appliances

Bring laptops to 60 Belfast Street, Broadmeadows during opening hours. No appointment is needed. Have other equipment or a larger quantity? Contact us first, as we may be able to accept it as a bulk donation. For items we can't use, find a suitable recycling service through Recycling Near You.

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Donate Funds

Sales and donations fund most of our day-to-day work, including replacement parts, workshop costs and responsible recycling. We also receive occasional grants and other support. We're ACNC registered with Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status, so donations over $2 are tax deductible and we'll issue a receipt.

Bank transfer

AccountComputerbank Victoria

BSB033 376

Account No137786

For other payment methods, workplace giving or to discuss a larger gift, get in touch.

Make a Donation

Why Donate to Computerbank?

Larger refurbishing programs usually only want recent machines. We're glad to take the ones that are a little older too: if it still runs Linux well, we can put it back to work.

We take what others can't

A laptop or desktop that's a few years old is often past its use-by date for a corporate fleet, but not for a family, a student or a community group. Linux runs comfortably on hardware that newer operating systems have left behind.

Local and hands-on

Our volunteers wipe, test and rebuild every machine at our Broadmeadows workshop, then sell it at low cost to Victorians who need one. No brokers, no interstate freight.

Responsible recycling

We put as much donated equipment back into use as possible. Anything that can't be reused is dismantled and sent for recycling. That's more than 30,000 items recycled so far.

A volunteer checking a donated laptop at the build bench

Refurbished laptops set up for customers to try in our showroom

Shelves of labelled bins holding power adaptors and parts

Refurbished desktop computers on a warehouse shelf, ready for sale

Three volunteers in hi-vis vests smiling at the build room benches

A volunteer checking a donated laptop at the build bench

A Clean Handover for Business, Schools and Government

We make equipment donations straightforward for businesses, schools, universities and government organisations. We can help with collection, secure data wiping and clear documentation.

Tell us what you have

Rough quantities and specs in the form below. We'll tell you what we can refurbish and what is only good for recycling.
We agree the handover

Drop off at Broadmeadows, or we'll arrange collection. What's possible depends on quantity and distance, and we'll say so up front.
Every drive is wiped

Every drive is securely wiped before a machine is rebuilt or recycled, and we can provide confirmation that the wipe was completed. You can also remove the drives first and we'll take the machines without them.
Machines are rebuilt and put back to work

Volunteers rebuild each machine with Linux and 70+ open-source apps, then sell it at low cost to concession card holders, students, asylum seekers and community groups.
You get the paperwork back

Confirmation that drives were wiped and a list of what we received for your asset register, if you need them.

What we take in bulk

Laptops and desktops, any brand
Monitors (bulk donations only)
Tablets and mobile phones
Surplus hard drives and components

What we can't take

Printers, scanners and loose cables
TVs and other electrical appliances

Not sure whether your fleet is worth refurbishing? Ask anyway. We'd rather tell you than have it go to landfill.

Need Commercial ITAD or Certified Data Destruction?

Computerbank wipes all donated drives and can provide confirmation that the wipe was completed. If your organisation requires commercial IT asset disposition, certified data sanitisation, chain-of-custody records, asset-level reporting or documentation for ESG reporting, note this in the donation form below.

Enable Social Enterprise is a separate not-for-profit organisation that shares our Broadmeadows premises. Computerbank refers donors requiring these services to Enable, which provides commercial ITAD, secure data sanitisation and AS/NZS 5377-certified e-waste management. We'll discuss the referral with you when we respond to your enquiry.