# Average person sitting on £26.99 in loose change or forgotten cash at home

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2024/05/13/average-person-sitting-on-26-99-in-loose-change-or-forgotten-cash-at-home/
- Published: 2024-05-13T15:04:07+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The average person in Britain has up to £26.99 in loose change or forgotten cash
lying around their house, equating to a national total of more than £760 million
that could be donated, according to research by Greene King.**

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However, it also found that one in three people think that anything under £2 is 
too small an amount to donate. Greene King’s study has been released as it heads
into one of its annual fundraising campaigns for [Macmillan Cancer Support](https://www.macmillan.org.uk/).

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Greene King is encouraging a little and often approach to its fundraising initiatives
across each of its 1,600 pubs in 2024, supported by its partnership with Pennies,
which invites its pub-goers to top up their bill by 25p. The partnership, introduced
in 2019, has recently surpassed the £2 million mark in donations to Macmillan Cancer
Support, and overall, Greene King team members and customers have raised £18mn for
the charity since 2012.

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Assad Malic, Chief Communications and Sustainability Officer at Greene King, said:

> “We’re extremely conscious of the impact the cost-of-living crisis is continuing
> to have on people which is an understandable obstacle for many when it comes to
> considering donating to charity.
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> “Despite this, the research shows that there is a significant amount of loose 
> change lying around households in the UK. It’s important to recognise that the
> smallest donation, even if it’s from re-discovered cash down the backs of sofas,
> can make such a monumental difference.”

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