# Donate your spare change app to launch in Ireland

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/12/18/donate-spare-change-app-launch-ireland/
- Published: 2018-12-18T13:54:38+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**An app that lets people donate their spare change to charity when making a purchase
will be launched in Ireland next year.**

Change Donations was created by Amelia Scivier, Lizzy Hayashida and William Conaghan
who met on Trinity College Dublin’s MBA programme. The idea for a giving app developed
from their participation in the programme’s entrepreneurship module.

The founders chose to focus on the rounding-up model of giving of micro-donations.
They also chose to offer users some flexibility in how they user it. For example:

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 * users choose which charity they want to benefit
 * they can choose which type of purchases they wish to round up
 * they can set a monthly limit on how much in total they wish to donate
 * they can pause rounding-up
 * they can reduce or increase the amount donated
 * they can donate to more than one charity

Ms Scivier told the [Irish Examiner](http://www.irishexaminer.com): “You link your
credit or debit card, and it rounds up all of your purchases to the next euro. You
can set rules; for example, it will only round up to a certain limit and you can
allocate it to one or several charities that you choose”.

The idea behind the app is that donors “may not feel the impact but can see the 
impact.”

The giving tool is initially available only in web form, with the app in development.

![Change Donations screenshot](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2022/01/change-
donations.webp)

Change Donations

## Student startup accelerator

The trio won the [top prize last summer at LaunchBox](https://medium.com/change-donations/change-donations-wins-top-prize-at-launchbox-2018-48bc782c2afe),
Trinity College’s student startup accelerator. They won €3,500 and free office space
at Dogpatch Labs in Dublin’s Docklands.
 

## Tax-efficient donations

Change Donations also ensures that donations are tax-efficient. Irish taxpayers 
who donate €250 or more to a registered charity can pass on the 31% tax relief to
that charity. Change Donations maintains a record of the multiple donations generated
to enable donors to keep track of their money.

Charities will be charged a monthly administrative fee by Change Donations, based
on a percentage of the total amount they receive via the platform. It includes transaction
fees.

The first two charities to sign up are The Hope Foundation and Rehab. A UK launch
is planned for March 2019.
 

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