# #FinalFiver: another chance to fundraise from £5 notes

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/01/26/another-chance-fundraise-5-pound-notes/
- Published: 2017-01-26T15:20:17+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Remember the [#firstfiver campaign](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/09/27/firstfiver-charities-responded-simple-fundraising-idea/)
that encouraged the public to donate the first new polymer £5 they received to a
charity of their choice? Now there is a complementary opportunity to repeat that–
by asking the public to donate their _last_ old £5 note to their favourite charity.**

[Old £5 notes will cease to be legal tender](http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/Pages/withdrawn/default.aspx)
on **Friday 5 May 2017**. So the Bank of England is inviting us to use them before
then. And what better way than to donate them to charity?

As with any banknote withdrawal, that date isn’t quite finite. You will still be
able to exchange old fivers at face value in perpetuity – but only by presenting
them to the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street in the City of London.

## Advertisement

Not surprisingly, [John Thompson](https://twitter.com/JTCHANGINGBIZ), who came up
with the idea of the #fivergiver campaign – which [CAF estimates raised £12.5 million!](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/11/14/firstfiver-campaign-may-raised-12-5m-says-caf-research/)–
saw this coming and is hoping that the public will be inspired to make the same 
gesture with the last of their old fivers.

His suggested campaign hashtag is **#FinalFiver**.

> [#MayTheFourth](https://twitter.com/hashtag/MayTheFourth?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> be with your [#FinalFiver](https://twitter.com/hashtag/FinalFiver?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> you know what to do good people [https://t.co/2adGELfidB](https://t.co/2adGELfidB)
> — John Thompson, aka Johnny Five (@JTCHANGINGBIZ) [January 18, 2017](https://twitter.com/JTCHANGINGBIZ/status/821748736158302209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

## New tenner to come

These opportunities are not going away. This summer will see the introduction of
the first polymer £10 note, featuring a picture (probably not a likeness, incidentally)
of Jane Austen. And that will be followed by the £20 polymer note.

You can bet that John Thompson – or Johnny Five, as his Twitter handle now reads–
is ready to spring into action with those opportunities too.

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