Market leading Health and Beauty Retailer, Superdrug has partnered with fintech charity, Pennies, to offer customers a chance to give to charity when paying by card for their beauty essentials.
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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.
Micro-donations help brighten up Birmingham’s children’s hospital
With the support from you and your pennies, the demoralising décor and the awkward space is closer to getting a new look, brightening up the experiences of patients and their families at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
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.
Pennies donations add up to help children with learning difficulties relax with sensory play
Between May 2011 and March 2013, Kids Out benefited from donations made by Travelodge customers adding a small donation to their online booking. In this period, customers raised well over £31,000 for the charity. This story is just one way this money was put to use.
Pennies passes 20 million micro-donation milestone and announces Martyn Lewis CBE as first Ambassador
This month Pennies, the innovative charity leading a digital transformation of the third sector, is marking a key milestone, with over 20 million micro-donations now collected through its digital charity box. The organisation is also honoured to announce Martyn Lewis CBE as its first Ambassador.
Screwfix customers reach 50,000 donations milestone in just four months
We know that many of our customers buy their products online, and we therefore felt Pennies was a perfect fit enabling Screwfix customers to donate quickly and easily online. The initiative is a really simple and sustainable way to offer our ongoing support to Everyman and our customers have really embraced the concept
It’s fancy dress time for some of Pennies’ recipient hospices as they celebrate Children’s Hospice Week
To celebrate Children’s Hospice Week, people across the country will be tapping in to their inner child this ‘Superhero’ Friday.
£500,000 raised as Pennies donations double in six months!
The Pennies movement is gaining momentum as the number of consumer micro-donations made via Pennies has doubled in just six months bringing the total to two million. This has raised £500,000 supporting a growing number of UK charities.