IT charity ReCOM to close

The IT charity ReCom is to close following unsuccessful efforts to recruit a new chair of trustees.

ReCOM volunteer Clive Mason told Spaghetti Gazette:

"It is with a deep and sorrowful heart that I must inform you that the IT charity ReCOM will cease to function after the 30th September 2021. The charity has, for the past 2 years been trying to find a new chair of trustees, without success.

"This will bring to an end 20 years of working with older, vulnerable, disadvantaged people within Solihull, East and more recently South Birmingham areas. Since the Covid Pandemic ReCOM has been working via Video Link and Telephone with clients. At a time when the services which ReCOM provide are more desperately needed than ever, the lack of a person to take on the role, even on a temporary basis, will result in the loss of the accumulated knowledge and experience of around 40 Volunteers and Staff.

"With no other charities of its type in the area, sadly the people that ReCOM has served will once more be bereft of help."