Debenhams Group announces it has raised over £260,000 with micro-donation charity Pennies, as it expands partnership to other Group brands, including Karen Millen and boohooMAN, strengthening its collective support for critical charitable causes.
Smiles all round at this year’s Special Olympics GB National Summer Games in Bath
Now in its 9th year, the Special Olympics National Summer Games act as an opportunity to not only promote and support the talents of athletes with intellectual disabilities, but to help build relationships between disabled and non-disabled people too, with every event free for the public to attend.
Micro-donations at ASK Italian help Great Ormond Street Hospital build for the future
In the five months since Pennies was introduced in ASK Italian restaurants, customers have raised an extraordinary £24,000 for GOSHCC, just 20p at a time.
Pennies is a runner up at the Nominet Internet Awards 2013
Last night a few members of the Pennies team got dressed up to the nines and headed off to the Nominet Internet Awards 2013. Held at the British Library, the awards were celebrating the internet being used as a force for good and we were delighted that Pennies work raising donations online was nominated in the ‘doing good online’ category.
Pennies celebrates shortlisted success in Google’s Global Impact Challenge
Following the announcement last week that Pennies was a finalist in the Google Global Impact Challenge, it’s been an intense week of garnering public votes, culminating with an afternoon of Q&A’s with some high profile judges.
Pennies, the electronic charity box, shortlisted for charity award
Among The Charity Awards shortlist announced on Tuesday 7 May is an electronic charity box, which offers people the option to add a small donation when paying by card either by rounding up their bill to the nearest pound or by adding a fixed amount of pennies. The Charity Awards are one of the sector’s most prestigious schemes, and the 2013 winners will be announced on 13 June.