Would you like to round up to £1? No I fucking wouldnt.

I’m the complete opposite.
I absolutely love this idea.

You do not have to do it and don’t have the pressure of someone collecting with a tin.

For many people 12p isn’t much but they might be ashamed putting so little in a tin.
But if 100 people donated that 12p then it definitely adds up.

I think it’s a great idea.

it is annoying in a charity shop,
i dont mind 1p to round up
but i do mind 50 p

I don’t usually, and I actually stopped my rounded up interest on savings automatically going to the building society’s chosen charities when I found out one was for homeless trans people. All homeless people should be housed safely but specifically the special people only, sorry no.

I prefer to give to a charity of my own choosing. I just smile and say no thank you.

I don’t like it and I don’t like giving money to a charity that I don’t know much about because I might not agree with them.

Just don’t then. 🤷‍♀️

Same. As if life isn't expensive enough these days

I used to do it, but now I don't. Because it's everywhere. I tend to give cash to the homeless. Some will say that's just fuelling their drug problem, but they often talk to me about finding hostels and I know how much that costs. I give them what they need for the hostel. What they do with it is up to them. It also makes me feel better for not endlessly 'rounding up' at the till.

No. No guilt as I support charities of my choosing.

It doesn't bother me but then I've never found it particularly annoying or difficult to either click no or cheerfully say "no thanks". How is that a big enough deal to be that annoyed by?

Same here. I do planned giving by direct debit each month and will give to street collections if it is a charity I want to support. Also sponsor colleagues etc. I press no at the supermarket, don't care what the cashier thinks as they don't know my finances. We don't go to McDonald's very often but if we do we round up; the Ronald McDonald house was amazing when my nephew was in ICU and it hadn't previously been a charity I was aware of. They do great work.

I appreciate that it's more intrusive and direct, but presumably it's supposed to replace the old habit of putting your change in the collection box? Collection boxes must get very little now.

How dare charities have paid staff. How very dare they. Everyone knows charities should be entirely staffed by volunteers. Even the multi-million pound ones.

No they can’t.

When you are asked at the checkout the money goes directly to the charity’s account. It’s a feature from the payment provider. The shop never sees the money.

I work in a charity shop. We had new tills installed a couple of months ago. One of the features of the tills is that on every transaction it offers the customer the opportunity to round up.
I don't want to have to keep asking them, but I can't override the till showing this suggestion - there is no way to bypass it. I can advise the customer that it is not at all compulsory and there's a "no thanks" option.
But it annoys me that we're pushing like this. If people want to make an extra donation, they will.

Our local Tescos is non stop. Always people collecting for charity in sheltered entrance, then people giving out food bank lists for you to buy as you get through the barriers and then donation requests when paying.
I try to do the food bank when I can, will if I have change for the collectors and its a charity I want to support but just feel like their taking the piss by the time I pay for my shopping.

I used to be a volunteer in Oxfam and to be fair, with the 99p pricing strategy customers who paid in cash would nearly always drop the penny or 2p in the tub at the till. All it meant was we had the constant job of counting and banking pennies. Now that everyone is using card so much more, they must have seen a decline in all those pennies. The easiest way around this would be to abandon the ridiculous 99p strategy and just price things at £5 not £4.99.

I am now volunteering in a different charity and everything is priced to the nearest pound or 50p. I would not be comfortable asking people to round up. I always decline the extra 25p or whatever in the supermarkets too. As others have said, I prefer to choose what charities I wish to support rather than have the supermarket choose for me.

That’s appalling of them, I would have done the same! How rude!

Businesses don’t get tax relief on it, they didn’t make the donation, you did (or didnt, if you choose not to). Personally I never carry cash only card and I like the convenience of giving to charity from time to time in this way. Charitable giving is very personal and obviously there will be many reasons people may decline, but it’s only a button. This method does raise many millions for great charities every year though and it’s administered by a charitable foundation not a profit making company.

They are cunts.

It is technically 'unrounding' up. 🤔

Absolutely. My mum rounds up into her own bank account and she was amazed how quickly it built up.

I was asked recently if I would like to 'round up' my £3 charity shop purchase to £3.50.

I politely declined but wanted to say 'that's hardly 'rounding' it - it's the opposite!' 😁