New wildlife-themed banknotes will generate a spike in cash donations The Atlantic puffin, barn owl, buff-tailed bumblebee and European hedgehog will appear on the redesigned notes in years to come -...

Ulster Bank’s vertical five and ten pound notes are now in circulation, and the challenge is on to replicate the […]

Fundraising consultant John Thompson explains how he came up with the idea for the #FirstFiver fundraising campaign. Speaking at the Institute of Fundraising's Fundraising Convention, he explained how an original tweet inspired a nationwide campaign that raised an estimated £12.5 million, according to Charities Aid Foundation. He pledged to donate his first new polymer £5 note to charity and asked if others would follow. They did! This then developed into the #FinalFiver campaign as the old £5 notes were withdrawn. And it will live on as other notes, like the Jane Austen £10, are introduced. John Thompson is a long-standing blogger on UK Fundraising. ** Subscribe: http://goo.gl/ZAh5cW ** Visit us: http://goo.gl/QqMNKk

The brand new five pound note can be used as a makeshift stylus, and people are really going for it.

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#FirstFiverDay 2026 - let's raise £26,000,000 At 23.18 on 16th September 2016 I created my first Twitter poll. Its purpose was to promote an idea I'd had to encourage people across the UK to donate ...

Tell us which animals you would like to see on our next series of banknotes by 3 July 2026

Hedgehog banknotes could raise awareness of the species' decline as conservationists back its inclusion on new UK notes.

The Bank of England is asking the public which animals should appear on future banknotes.

Images of UK's wildlife will feature on the next series of banknotes, following a consultation by the Bank of England. The nature theme received the highest proportion of nominations in last year's c...