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Fintech charity Pennies’ Autumn Celebration Event honours leaders in the micro-donations movement with awards

Stuart Mitchell

Pennies, the award-winning fintech charity which enables micro-donations to charity, revealed the Pennies Award winners 2024 – which recognise the individuals and partners who have made significant contributions to the micro-donation movement – at its annual Pennies Autumn Celebration Event on Tuesday, 15 October in London. The Pennies Award winners 2024 are: Moto wins the Merchant Impact Award for enabling significant growth in micro-donations as a result of specific actions, driving increased consumer donations in their business and unlocking increased measurable impact for their charity partners. The Innovation in Technology…

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Despite cost-of-living pressures, more people are giving to charity digitally than ever before

Stuart Mitchell

Pennies, the award-winning fintech charity which enables micro-donations to charity, has conducted a landmark survey[1] of UK consumers to gauge attitudes and behaviours about donating to charities. After being told that if every UK cardholder gave just 35p a week to charity, it could raise an additional £1 billion for charities every year, almost half (48%) of respondents said that they’d be more likely to micro-donate.   Consumers more likely to micro-donate when they know that if every UK cardholder gave 35p a week to charity, charities would raise £1…

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Superdrug teams up with Pennies to raise funds for Marie Curie

Stuart Mitchell

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. Superdrug customers shopping in store can now top-up on their purchases to support Marie Curie, the UK’s leading end of life charity. The charity provides expert hospice care at home, in their hospices and over the phone – ensuring people get the care and support they urgently need at the end of their lives. Just 2 minutes of micro-donations from…

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Fintech charity Pennies’ Micro-Donation Day raises £30,000 for life-changing causes – in just one day

Stuart Mitchell

Pennies, the award-winning fintech charity which enables micro-donations to charity, successfully held its first ever Micro-Donation Day on Monday, 26 August 2024 which, in addition to boosting awareness of the micro-donation movement, raised £30,000 for charities including Cancer Research UK, MND Association and Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity – thanks to more than 130,000 individual donations. Pennies CEO, Alison Hutchinson CBE, said: “We’re thrilled that Pennies partners and customers have rallied together for the first ever Micro-Donation Day, and to be celebrating such a brilliant sum raised in a single…

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Verifone and Pennies reach milestone of £6 million raised for charities via micro-donations on payment devices

Stuart Mitchell

Verifone, the payments architect shaping ecosystems for in-person and online commerce experiences, and Pennies, the award-winning fintech charity working to grow and protect micro-donations, are delighted to announce they have facilitated more than £6 million in charitable donations since first partnering in 2011. The partnership has generated donations for more than 95 charities by enabling consumers to make donations on Verifone payment devices at checkout through a simple prompt asking users if they would like to round up the purchase price to the nearest pound or make a donation of a…

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