Since June 2016 customers shopping at Voisins in Jersey, have had an opportunity each year to select the stores chosen charity partners. The people of Jersey have collectively chosen Jersey Hospice Care for three years consecutively.
Impact stories.
Discover the incredible impact of micro-donations with stories from our charity partners.
Your pennies have meant that Bloodhound Doberman cross, Ella, has had a successful year protecting the rhinos
Medivet have been raising vital funds for The Wilderness Foundation via Pennies since May 2015. Since then, card-paying customers have been offered the option to donate a few pence when paying by card in Medivet veterinary practices, in support of the Forever Wild Rhino Protection Initiative, helping fund projects designed to counter the rhino poaching crisis is South Africa.
A toast to donations helping The Royal British Legion transform lives
Suffolk-based brewer Adnams chose The Royal British Legion as their beneficiary for three months from November 2017. Customers shopping in Adnams’ stores and online rounded up purchases via Pennies in their thousands, to support the Legion’s work.
Half a million pounds raising smiles for children and families at Great Ormond Street Hospital
Every year over 255,000 patients visit Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). These patients are young children who are suffering from rare, complex and often life-threatening conditions, from across the country and abroad. Nearly 700 families will visit GOSH today, in need of desperate help.
Adnams’ customers keep local charity East Anglian Air Ambulance flying in 2015
Brewer and distiller Adnams understands the importance of the local communities that surround its famous brewery in Southwold, Suffolk. With that in mind, they have been offering Pennies to customers at their Cellar & Kitchen Stores across East Anglia for over two years, raising vital funds for a range of charities working throughout the region to improve the lives of as many people living there as possible.
Your pennies help Walking With The Wounded secure a future for thousands of ex-servicemen and women
Money raised by customers at Gieves & Hawkes is busy making a difference to crafts charity QEST, but that’s just half the story. Also sharing in those Pennies donations is the inspiring Walking With The Wounded, a charity that supports injured ex-service personnel by helping them to retrain and secure employment once they return to civilian life.
Tailor-made donations from Gieves & Hawkes custmers help keep British craft alive
In November 2012, bespoke tailor Gieves & Hawkes began offering Pennies in their world-famous store at No. 1 Savile Row. By offering their customers the chance to donate 75p when paying by card, thousands of pounds has been raised for the tailor’s two charity partners, Walking With The Wounded and the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST), an organisation that helps craftspeople in Britain to achieve their potential and contribute to a thriving craft sector.
Age UK raises extra funds on the high street with Pennies
Each month, more and more charities start using Pennies in their own shops, raising important additional funds for their vital work. One of these is Age UK, the country’s largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life, providing services and support at a national and local level to inspire, enable and support older people.
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.
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.
Thanks to your pennies, men like Guy have somewhere to go to talk about prostate cancer
Donating a few ‘electronic pennies’ in an Adnams Cellar & Kitchen store may not seem like much, but this small change is already adding up to help to fund services for men with prostate cancer. It’s only been a few months but customers have rounded up over 20,000 times, raising more than £6000 for their charity partner Prostate Cancer UK.
