THE PENNIES FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1122489 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7163428 · Wikipedia · also known as PENNIES

PROMOTING THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR BY ENCOURAGING AND FACILITATING CHARITABLE GIVING THROUGH THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY (IN PARTICULAR USING PENNIES THE DIGITAL CHARITY BOX (PENNIES) DESIGNED TO MAKE IT EASIER TO GIVE TO CHARITY, AND MONITORING THE USE OF THE FUNDS BY CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS.

Objects

1 THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY ENCOURAGING AND FACILITATING CHARITABLE GIVING, ASSISTING IN THE APPLICATION OF FUNDS FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND MONITORING THE USE OF SUCH FUNDS BY CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS;2 THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY PROVIDING ADVICE TO CHARITIES AND ORGANISATIONS SEEKING TO MAXIMISE CHARITABLE GIVING, EXCHANGING INFORMATION WITH SUCH CHARITIES AND ORGANISATIONS AND PROVIDING TECHNOLOGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGNED TO MAKE IT EASIER TO GIVE TO CHARITY; AND3 SUCH OTHER PURPOSES THAT ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TOTIME THINK FIT (“THE OBJECTS”).

Area of benefit: IN THE UK AND IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY; ANY PART OF THE WORLD; THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,664,231, which is slightly above the trustees' stated policy target of nine months' operational expenditure. The charity reports that over 70% of its annual operational expenditure was self-funded through retained micro-donations in 2025, demonstrating a move toward financial independence. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue in operational existence.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Pennies (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alison Hutchinson CBE — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Peter Nugent — Finance Director (source)
• Marian Duxbury — Chief Finance Officer (source)
• Jim Dolan — Chief Transformation and Technology Officer (source)
• Ann Tomsett — Commercial Director (Volunteer) (source)
• Holly Clawson — Head of Product and Technology (source)
• Jo Wadham — Head of Legal & Governance (source)
• Rozi Collier — Head of Marketing and Charities (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (2,766 followers) · instagram (644 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT LEITAOchair
• Angela Luger
• Graham Edwards
• JULIAN TAYLOR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Leigh Thomas
• PENNY LOVELL
• Paul Michael Bain
• Peter George Edwin Ayliffe
• Peter Joseph Nugent

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Ireland · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PENNY TRUST.

• THE PENNY TRUST income £98k
• CHAMPNEYS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £26k
• PS FOUNDATION income £560k
• THE PENDERELS TRUST LIMITED income £9.5m
• PARTICIPATE PROJECTS income £627k
• VOLUNTARY SECTOR CENTRES income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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