Practical guides from Coins for Change Foundation for schools, charities, PTAs and community organisations. These pages are written to answer real questions first, then help you choose the right fundraising route.
If you have a drawer full of leftover holiday money, you are not alone. Coins and notes can be awkward to exchange individually, especially when they are mixed or low value. Coins for Change is built around community collections so schools, charities and other organisations can combine lots of small contributions into one fundraising campaign.
Read guide →Leftover travel money tends to end up in jars and drawers because the balance is too small to think about. Your best option depends on whether the currency is still current, how much you have and whether you are likely to return to the country.
Read guide →Foreign-coin fundraising gives supporters a simple job: search drawers, purses and travel bags for currency they no longer use, then add it to one community collection. It is a different ask from buying a raffle ticket or making another cash donation.
Read guide →A school foreign-currency campaign is designed to be simple: families look for leftover travel money, the school collects it in one place, and the combined currency is processed as a fundraising collection.
Read guide →For a PTA, the appeal of a foreign-currency collection is administrative simplicity. It can fit between larger events and gives families a way to contribute without buying another product or ticket.
Read guide →A foreign-currency collection lets supporters contribute leftover travel money that may otherwise remain unused. It can be run through existing supporter communications, events, offices or community collection points.
Read guide →The simplest rule on the current Coins for Change website is broad: foreign coins and notes from virtually any country can be included, and mixed currencies are accepted. There are a few important practical rules to keep visible.
Read guide →Good case studies should show what actually happened, not just what a fundraiser hoped would happen. Coins for Change already publishes independent-review feedback on its homepage; this section is designed to grow into a library of verified campaign results as permission and evidence are available.
Read guide →The campaign is designed to turn mixed leftover foreign currency into a simple organisation-led fundraiser. Here is the current process in plain English.
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