# New £10 enters circulation

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/09/14/new-10-enters-circulation/
- Published: 2017-09-14T14:28:21+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The new £10 enters circulation today (14 September), featuring Jane Austen, with
the hunt already on to find those with low serial numbers and those corresponding
with Austen-related dates such as her birthday and death. **

Just over a billion new tenners have been printed, with the note made out of polymer
like the £5 note, which entered circulation a year ago. The two will be joined by
a new polymer £20 note featuring J M W Turner in 2020.  The current paper £10 note
featuring Charles Darwin will be withdrawn in Spring 2018, with the date yet to 
be announced.

The new version is the first note to have a tactile feature to support the blind
and partially sighted: on the front of the polymer £10 note, there are two clusters
of raised dots in the top left hand corner.

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Following on from last year’s launch of the new £5 note, which saw millions raised
for charity through the first fiver campaign, charities and individuals have taken
to social media to ask people to consider donating their first tenner too. This 
included Caroline Criado-Perez who campaigned to have a woman on the banknote. She
is donating her first tenner to a women’s shelter and is urging others to do the
same.
Criado-Perez tweeted:

NEW TENNER OUT TODAY! I want you all to pls send me pics of you with yr first tenner????(
and then donate it to your local women’s shelter) x
— Caroline CriadoPerez (@CCriadoPerez)
[September 14, 2017](https://twitter.com/CCriadoPerez/status/908245015524241408)

In addition, the Bank of England has announced that it is holding a charity auction
of notes with low serial numbers on 6 October, run by Spinks. Proceeds from the 
auction will go to [Haven House Children’s Hospice](https://www.havenhouse.org.uk/),
[Macmillan](https://www.macmillan.org.uk/), and [Candlelighters](https://www.candlelighters.org.uk/).

## Watch: the polymer £10 note – key security features

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGbwXx2g99U

## From £10 to £50 note

> [Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/07/16/alan-turing-to-feature-on-new-50-note/)