THE PENNIES FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1122489 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · 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.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,496,202, which is within the trustees' stated target of maintaining at least nine months' operational expenditure (£1.2m). The charity reported a net income surplus of £98,246 for the year, with total incoming resources increasing by 22% to £11,450,284, driven largely by a first-year rise in micro-donations exceeding £10 million.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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.

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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 (3.8%) (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

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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Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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