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Loan or rent out surplus assets

As well as one way donations, the Warp It system also facilitates the loaning or rental of items. Think of it as a room booking system but for assets, equipment and any common items.

Popular uses

The loan facility is well used for items that are common in each office but are used infrequently, such as laminators, binders, fans etc. The loan feature is used extensively for high value, low use equipment like sport apparatus and laboratory kit- especially between schools and labs.

Booking out commonly held assets

The loan feature can also be used to book out items from a store, such as laptops, safety equipment and vehicles etc. The loan feature can also be used by staff who have a stock of equipment and traditionally book it out over email like table clothes, a frame, advertising boards, tools etc.

Loaning guidelines & liabilities

In the same method as standard donations there are guidelines to loans and Terms & Conditions. Organisations can customise this agreement for their own purposes.

To read in detail about loaning and renting items using Warp It please see here.

I wholly believe in a cycle of re-using good quality items which can still give years of service,
rather than throwing them away.
This is a great service!
Having everything available to see on a centralised site should hopefully mean everyone will check here first before
buying new and adding to the furniture in circulation :D
Anon, Heriot Watt

It's just perfect for re-using all that junk that accumulates in the photocopier room, making sure you don't cry at the perfectly good office chairs, desks etc. that normally get binned during office moves and finding those odds and sods that sometimes you just don't have in the office!
John Bailey, University of London