Press Releases
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 [...]
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Customers enjoying a meal in Drake & Morgan’s bar and restaurants have donated their ‘spare electronic change’ 10,000 times to help raise £5,000 for inner-city children thanks to an innovative fundraising initiative. The London-based group recently partnered with Pennies, the electronic charity box, to allow customers paying by card in their restaurants to add a [...]
Posted in Press Releases | Tagged children's charities, CSR, electronic charity box, fundraising for children, innovative fundraising, microdonations, Pennies, Pennies Foundation
Leading information technology solutions provider MICROS Systems, Inc have today announced that they have joined the Pennies movement. The hospitality and retail industries specialist are including Pennies, the electronic charity box, in future releases of their Retail-J POS software, which will enable many more organisations to offer the micro-donation option to their customers. Pennies gives [...]
Posted in Press Releases | Tagged corporate social responsibility, CSR, electronic charity box, MICROS, payments industry, the pennies movements
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. The pace of donations has seen a big increase in recent months with new partners including DFS, Monarch [...]
Posted in Press Releases | Tagged 4 million donations, CSR, electronic charity box, fundraising, fundraising ideas, innovative fundraising, micro-donations, one million pounds, Pennies, The Pennies Foundation
Christmas has come early for the charity partners of The Entertainer as the number of customers donating their electronic ‘spare change’ this month multiplies by 7 times. These extra donations have helped bring the total amount raised by customers to more than £250,000. The donations, made through Pennies the electronic charity box, have been adding [...]
Posted in Press Releases | Tagged Christmas giving, CSR, electronic charity box, fundraise for sick children, fundraising for children's hospitals, innovative fundraising ideas, micro-donations, Pennies, rounding up pennies, successful fundraising ideas, toyshop
