Helen Dickinson OBE, Chief Executive of the British Retail Consortium, is part of Pennies Retail and Services Advisory Board – made up of industry leaders from across high-street retail and e-commerce.
Pennies’ retailers raise thousands for BBC Children in Need, all year round
So far, Children in Need have received over £6,000 from Pennies’ retailers DFS, Monarch Airlines and Cosmos Holidays in support of their work with projects like Home-Start across the country.
A bumper year for the electronic charity box as Pennies turns three
This time last year, customers had donated via the electronic charity box 3.5 million times. Today, that figure has doubled, and the pace of donations continues to grow as we welcome new partners every month. To date, your pennies have raised an amazing £1.7 million from 7 million individual donations.
One million donations made so far at The Entertainer have helped to improve services for children in hospital
Donating a few pennies when you pay by card at the till point may not seem like much but to children sitting in hospital beds around the country this small action is making a huge difference. Since August 2011 customers paying by card in the Entertainer toyshop stores have been happily popping their virtual spare change into the Pennies charity box. Just 18 months in, we’re excited to announce that they’ve donated a magnificent 1,000,000 times, raising well over £300,000 for charity.
Raising a glass to Adnams customers who’ve raised over £20,000 in support of Prostate Cancer UK
Adnams: the Suffolk-based brewers and distillers have been offering Pennies at the tills of their kitchen and cellar stores for the last 11 months. In that time their customers have donated over £20,000 to Prostate Cancer UK by rounding up their purchase to the nearest pound when paying by card
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.