Zizzi rolls out Pennies across all its restaurants
August 2, 2011
Zizzi rolls out Pennies across all its restaurants
By Pennies on August 2, 2011
Italian restaurant chain, Zizzi, rolls out Pennies, the electronic charity box, to its nationwide network of 118 restaurants to raise more money for charity, The Prince’s Trust. This follows the success of a trial in a small number of venues which began last December.
Customers visiting the restaurant chain who pay for their meal by card have the choice to top up their bill by 20p. Every one of the extra pennies given goes to charity. Of the money raised, 75% …
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Toy shop chain The Entertainer brings Pennies to the high street
August 2, 2011
Toy shop chain The Entertainer brings Pennies to the high street
By Pennies on August 2, 2011
The Pennies Foundation has launched Pennies, the electronic charity box onto the UK high street for the first time with children’s toy shop, The Entertainer. This independent 57- store chain is the first retailer to introduce Pennies on shop tills. Customers have the choice to make micro-donations by rounding-up their purchase to the nearest pound when they pay by card. All the money raised goes to charity.
The Entertainer has launched Pennies in four stores (Liverpool, Bristol, Kingston and Sutton Coldfield), …
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IBM helps to accelerate growth of charity micro-donation channel Pennies
July 5, 2011
IBM helps to accelerate growth of charity micro-donation channel Pennies
By Pennies on July 5, 2011
Today Pennies, the electronic charity box, announces an agreement with IBM (NYSE: IBM) that will make enabling consumer micro-donation at the point of sale even easier, quicker and more efficient for High Street retailers. IBM is playing an active part in the growing micro-donation movement by incorporating ‘Pennies donation’ functionality into the latest version of its EPS retail point of sale payment software.
Pennies is a simple idea that went live in November 2010. It is proving popular with consumers with …
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Teamspirit Public Relations joins Pennies for a year-long campaign
June 29, 2011
Teamspirit Public Relations joins Pennies for a year-long campaign
By Pennies on June 29, 2011
The Pennies Foundation has taken on Teamspirit Public Relations for a year-long campaign to promote Pennies, the electronic charity box which allows consumers to round up their purchases to the nearest pound for charity.
Teamspirit will be working with Pennies on a pro-bono basis to win support for this new and ground-breaking charity in the retail, consumer and tech press.
Pennies was created as a way of bringing the traditional cash charity box up-to-date for card and internet payments. It’s simple, it’s …
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Philanthropy Review encourages more people to give to charity
June 23, 2011
Philanthropy Review encourages more people to give to charity
By Pennies on June 23, 2011
The Philanthropy Review published its call to action, this week, with the aim of encouraging people to give more to charities. The review placed emphasis on three key points which closely mirror Pennies aims:
To make it easier for people to give
To encourage giving
To help make giving a social norm
It highlighted a number of complimentary methods for assisting the delivery of an extra £2bn to charities by 2015. The review also places a strong focus on education in order to develop …
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The Logic Group opens new retail avenues for Pennies
June 22, 2011
The Logic Group opens new retail avenues for Pennies
By Pennies on June 22, 2011
The Pennies Foundation has joined forces with secure payment provider The Logic Group to make it easy for their retail clients to go live with Pennies. This collaboration is an important step forward in the adoption of micro-donations by retailers.
The Logic Group, which is providing the payments software within the Point of Sale and Pin Entry Device, is making the service available to all of its retail customers either on existing or forthcoming PCI DSS compliant payment solutions from the end of June. …
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Pennies scoops Technology4Good fundraising award
June 8, 2011
Pennies scoops Technology4Good fundraising award
By Pennies on June 8, 2011
The team at The Pennies Foundation is thrilled to announce that we have won our first award. Yesterday at an event in London, hosted by BT, we won the award in the ‘fundraising’ category of the Technology4Good awards (T4G).
In their first year, these awards have been set up to celebrate the work of many charities, businesses and individuals across the UK who use digital technologies to help change communities for the better.
The fundraising award, sponsored by Camelot was all about …
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Pennies gains support of Davis Coffer Lyons
May 26, 2011
Pennies gains support of Davis Coffer Lyons
By Pennies on May 26, 2011
The Pennies Foundation is delighted to receive the official support of Davis Coffer Lyons, leading specialist advisor to the leisure property sector for four decades. The company deals with all types of leisure property including restaurants, shopping centre food outlets, fast food units, bars, pubs and nightclubs.
Davis Coffer Lyons supports Pennies’ innovative electronic charity box, which gives consumers the choice to donate pennies to charity when they shop for goods or services and pay by card.
David Coffer, Chairman of The …
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The Pennies Foundation included in Giving White Paper
May 24, 2011
The Pennies Foundation included in Giving White Paper
By Pennies on May 24, 2011
The Pennies Foundation welcomes the continued attention on the topic of giving to charity. We are pleased that Pennies, the electronic charity box, is mentioned in the Government’s White Paper as an example of a successful existing micro-donation channel.
We have repeatedly said that micro-donation is an idea whose time has come, and that making it easy for consumers to donate as they shop and pay by card is a fundamental step to involve more people into charitable giving. With 43 …
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