Overview
- Pennies from Heaven (PFH), started in 1999, is the UK’s fastest growing coin collection scheme for employees and pensioners
- To date PFH has raised more than £1m for over 117 charities
- With a simple change to your payroll system, gross salaries are rounded down to the nearest pound on a monthly basis. The most anyone can give a month is £0.99 or £11.88 p.a (£15.20 with Gift Aid) with an average of £6.00 (£7.68 with Gift Aid)
- Participation rates are high – it has a current average of 25% with one member achieving 70% in the first 3 months!
- PFH now has more than 117 major employers on board and the list is growing
- Pennies from Heaven, makes it simple for employers to implement – provides companies with communication material, consent forms and manages charity payments to name but a few services offered
- 100% of all donations received by the charity (depending on agreed terms of license) and the scheme is designed to compliment amounts given via pre-tax payroll giving
- Appeals to all staff, regardless of earnings
- Pennies from Heaven’s goal is to get everyone in the UK donating their spare pennies to charity – this would be worth over £230 million pounds a year – see the pennies really do add up!
