Small Change round Up???

[Frank]

OK, it's a bit off the wall and I suspect it would be nearly impossible to implement unless you owned E-Bay or Tescos or something, but I was thinking:
How many times have we bought something in a store for 9.97 or 9.99 and could hardly be bothered receiving the couple of pence change. Wouldn't it be great if there was a system in place where you could donate small change like that to Greyhound Gap.
OK, it may only be a penny or two here or there, but just think of how many people use big stores on a daily basis?? It could soon mount up.
Like I said though, I can't off hand think of an easy way to set up such a system.

[chris]

various large places do give away small change to charities. When I was a Trustee on SWT I got them on one of these lists - can't remember which now. But if you contact places like the Co-op, most of the building societies, etc., they give the small change interest earned to different charities. Some operate a list system, so you put your case, get accepted then have a turn being the recipient. Just takes a bit of time and patience finding the right places and completing the relevant forms/letters to get on their list

[kizzeysmum]

You could always take the money, put it in a jar and join in with our "Pennies in a Jar" campaign.

I collect all the money that people have collected over the year at the Gap show in May, count it and then put it into the kennel fund.

Last May we collected £400 in pennies and other small change that people had collected through the year.

[Frank]

Yes I already put the pennies in the jar, but was just thinking of a way of maybe "targetting" the general public and figured with some big shops/companies etc, a couple of pence here and there from even 1% of their customers must surely add up relatively quickly.