# Post Office to accept foreign coins for Help the Hospices

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/09/10/post-office-accept-foreign-coins-help-hospices/
- Published: 2007-09-10T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

From today, foreign exchange customers at 600 Post Office® branches across the UK
will be invited to donate their unused foreign coins to Help the Hospices, the national
charity for the UK hospice movement. Special collection boxes for unused coins will
be available on the counter of the selected branches.
The collection is the latest
initiative in the charity’s three-year partnership with Royal Mail Group, which 
has raised over £1.2 million since it began in March 2005.

Post Office head of travel services John Howells said: “Post Office branches have
previously raised an astounding £40,000 a year for charity through foreign coin 
collections. We are proud that so many of our people have got involved in our partnership
with Help the Hospices.”

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