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    Putting pennies together to help young people overcome challenges through music

    From loans for start-up business entrepreneurs to support for seriously ill teenagers, your donations are helping young people in all sorts of ways. Youth Music is one charity that uses your pennies to help children and young people reach their full potential through music making. Many of the people they support have not had the [...]

    Posted in News | Tagged disadvantaged young people, electronic charity box, fundraising, innovative fundraising, Pennies, support for immigrants

    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 [...]

    Posted in News | Tagged CSR, electronic charity box, fundraising, fundraising ideas for prostate cancer, innovative ideas, micro-donations, movember, Pennies, prostate cancer

    Donations at the end of your meal are helping to stop hunger ruining the lives of vulnerable young Londoners

    In the flurry of activity that happened around the end of last year, Pennies welcomed a number of new partners on board across the retail and restaurant sectors. One new restaurant group that started giving their customers the choice to add a small donation when they pay by card at the end of a meal [...]

    Posted in News | Tagged children's charities, CSR, electronic charity box, fundraising, Pennies, vulnerable children

    Two years of Family Weekends for children with burn injuries are covered by your pennies

    Last November was a busy month for Pennies, as we prepared to launch with a whole host of new retailers and celebrated our 2nd anniversary. Whilst that was going on, your pennies were being put to work nearly 300 miles away in Cumbria, where six families attended a Children’s Burns Trust Family Weekend at the [...]

    Posted in News | Tagged burn injuries, children's charities, CSR, family therapy, fundraising, fundraising for children, micro-donations, Pennies the electronic charity box

    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 [...]

    Posted in News | Tagged business skills, charities, CSR, electronic charity box, fundraising, microdonations, Pennies, Prince's Trust, workplace skills, young people

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