Donation scheme attracts political interest

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 7 April 2008

Third sector minister Phil Hope has agreed to organise a meeting about a scheme that would allow shoppers to round up their bills to the nearest pound and donate the overpayment to charity.

Pennies4Change, set up by international fundraising business Votiva, offers software that would allow overpayments made using credit or debit cards to be sent automatically to the company’s charitable foundation. Barry Gardiner, Labour MP for Brent North, praised the scheme at an adjournment debate in the House of Commons last Thursday...

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