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Travel Foundation seeks unwanted currency to fund sustainable tourism

Sustainability
Tom Parry
15 July 2019

The Travel Foundation is calling on firms to collect customers’ unwanted currency to help raise cash and awareness for sustainable tourism initiatives.

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The charity said this element of its Summer Time for Change campaign presented an “easy way” to support its work and educate customers on the need to protect holiday destinations “to ensure they thrive and survive, now and in the future”.

Midcounties Co-operative Travel has worked with The Travel Foundation to road-test encouraging customers to put their unwanted currency of any denomination (including obsolete coins and notes) into collection boxes to support the organisation’s work.

Midcounties currently has more than 100 boxes in its agencies and Post Office outlets, and hopes to raise about £200 with each box.