Verifone and Pennies are delighted to announce they have facilitated more than £6 million in charitable donations since first partnering in 2011.
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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.
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.
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.
200K donations in a few months helps grant the wishes of seriously ill children like Samuel
One of the reasons why Pennies is popular with retailers is because it allows their customers to join in with raising funds for a charity partner, making them feel good about shopping in their stores.
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.
Micro-donations add up to £80K to help young people like Afsana turn their life around
Back in the summer of 2011 Pennies was rolled out across the tills in Zizzi restaurants. Eighteen months on, customers have donated over 600,000 times with their pennies adding up to more than £132,000 for charity. Most of this money has gone to their main beneficiary partner the Prince’s Trust who have used donations to help young people improve their lives, build confidence and achieve their ambitions.
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.