# The Pennies Foundation wins Best Not For Profit IT Project Award

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/11/15/pennies-foundation-wins-best-not-profit-it-project-award/
- Published: 2012-11-15T11:24:02+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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The Pennies Foundation has won the Best Not For Profit IT Project Award in the UK
IT Industry Awards 2012 for its Pennies microdonations service.

The awards are run by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and Computing magazine.

David Clarke, MBE, Group Chief Executive Officer BCS, The Chartered Institute for
IT, said: "Our judges were impressed by this exciting and expansive project which
gives fresh impetus to community giving."

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[Pennies](http://www.pennies.org.uk) enables customers to round-up card purchases
and donate their 'electronic' change to charity. 

In total 23 awards were presented covering project, organisation, technology, and
individual excellence and included awards such as Security Innovation, Infrastructure
Innovation, Business IT Innovation and CIO of the Year. 

Aintree University Hospital Foundation Trust was highly commended in the Not For
Profit IT Award category. 

[www.bcs.org/itawards](http://www.bcs.org/itawards)

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   6 December 2012)
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   16 January 2013)