A campaign to raise £50,000 towards providing computers for children studying at home has hit its target.

The amount raised from the appeal, launched three weeks ago by industry trainer Stephen Brown, currently stands at £50,650. The money will go towards providing less fortunate children with computers, laptops and tablets to support their learning.

Brown set-up a Go Fund Me page, called Computers for Schools, in order to raise funds from people, including agents and estate industry suppliers, to help children struggling without a laptop or a desktop computer.

Brown and industry content creator Jerry Lyons came up with the idea during a recent podcast, which was celebrating estate agents who have been supporting their local schools in several ways.

Brown said: “Many agents across the UK have risen to the challenge of helping schools and less fortunate pupils who don’t have access to essential technology. Now that most school children are learning online in lockdown access to laptops and tablets is essential and thousands of children don’t have them through no fault of their own.

“As suppliers, we wanted to support the local efforts of estate agents by trying to raise £50,000, which will be donated towards providing this desperately needed equipment.”

The appeal is supported by several well-known figures in the industry, including Christopher Watkin and Simon Whale.

Top donations: Let Alliance/Homelet, as well as Michael and Kenny Bruce, formerly of Purplebricks, donated £10,000 each.