How can I get pound coins?

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I don’t really use cash, especially now I’m paying for everything by card so don’t get change.

My Nan asks me to get money out for her and she wanted some pound coins to have in for when neighbours pick her up a couple of bits of shopping. I do the majority of her shopping for her so it’s just the occasional thing she’s run out of.

Is there anywhere I could swap notes for pound coins? I had to queue up at the bank for half an hour last time, also don’t feel like it’s important enough reason to go while they’re saying only go if necessary atm, so trying to think of anywhere different I could go?

Post office ? Local shop ?
Same as you I thought a coin top up might be useful I'm lucky as I've asked my partner to swap me some from work as although they are only taking card payments they have a carpark coin taking machine and it needs to be emptied

The railway station might have a machine. I haven't been to the station for a while but there used to be one outside the toilets so people could get change to pay the 30p to go in. There was a machine that changed notes into £1.00 coins, then another that changed the £1.00 into 20p and 10p.

Could you get cashback at the supermarket and ask for it in coins?

Buying a loaf of bread with £10 in the self service machines at Tesco used to be my source of change.

Betting shop always has lots of change from the machines . They're normally quite happy to give it out

No chance of your Nan paying back her neighbours using internet banking or Paypal?

We've been shopping for elderly MIL who's been shielding and that's how she pays us.

Thanks for the suggestions. She doesn’t use internet banking. I walk past a betting shop on the way home when I take the dog out so I’ll ask in there.

Find a self service check out, buy something small like milk and pay with a £5 note. I do that when I want some change.

Withdraw the money at a post office and ask for some of it in pound coins

Post office won't money swap though btw

Self service till