Febuary’s Bentham News

A Statement by Enable Disability on behalf of A White Knight IT (its Community Interest Company).

Following incorrect information printed in February’s 2021 edition of The Bentham News.
It has been pointed out us in our Bentham Store that the following statement has been made by the local News Magazine “The Bentham News” (TBN).

There has been no request by anyone at A White Knight IT, or via Enable Disability to print this statement in the February 2021 Edition of The Bentham News.

The Bentham News Committee posted in Bentham Buy and Sell, the article it was going to write in it’s February edition. We were contacted by members of the Bentham Community asking “Why The Bentham News, was advertising a non Bentham business in a magazine soley distributed to Bentham”.

The committee of TBN was asked on behalf of Bentham residents if it could explain why Burton in Lonsdales IT Store (which is a ‘for profit’) was getting free “advertising” (as in a reporting piece) and A White Knight IT (C.I.C.) was in a positon where it had to pay to gain it’s advertising, and struggled to get any articles written, especially when A White Knight IT, puts back into High and Low Bentham where it is based.

We also asked if there was a conflict of interest with Anne Preston (of the Bentham News) offering to collect 2nd hand machines in the village.
Currently Vulnerable and Disabled people in Bentham since October, has recieved over 50 and a half hours of donated support during lockdown periods (which accumulates to £870 of donated time) by A White Knight IT, and has not been approached by the Towns News Magazine to cover this work.
We are working on 15 donated machines to get them to disabled and vulnerable people who are back in a lengthy lockdown.

Up to the point of writing this statement, since 16th January 2021, we have still not had a response to our questions put to the Committee of The Bentham News.