The UK’s largest family-owned fish and chip chain, The Chesterford Group (TCG), has partnered with charity Pennies to offer online-ordering customers the chance to add a donation on their meal for Help for Heroes.
Donated pennies from charitable tradesmen help scientists discover new blood test to guide prostate cancer treatment
With online customers of Screwfix clicking the ‘Donate’ button well over 150,000 times since Spring 2012, an impressive amount of money has been donated to their charity partner, the Everyman appeal. In fact, a total of £31,000 has been raised so far, all from donations less than £1.
Pennies raises £1,000,000 from four million micro-donations
Micro-donation charity Pennies gains momentum as its electronic charity box donations double in just eight months, bringing the total raised to £1,000,000. This has been collected from more than 4 million individual donations averaging just 25p each.
Pennies sees 100% growth and announces new partners
Industry leaders joined together today to celebrate the breakthrough that Pennies, the electronic charity box, has made for British fundraising in its first two years.
Pennies and The Entertainer win top ‘not for profit’ IT industry award
Our project with The Entertainer and payment technology providers Itim and YESpay International, that raised £150K in just one year for charity, grabbed the attention of judges who decided it deserved to be a winner in the ‘Project Excellence’
‘Cashless living’ on the rise as younger generation chooses cards over coins
A recent survey on attitudes to charitable donations commissioned by The Pennies Foundation found that one in ten young people in the UK aged between 25 and 34 years never carry cash, instead relying entirely on cards.