Airport Donation Boxes

[doctorstrangelove]

I've accumulated quite a bit of small change at this stage from various trips post-COVID. It's not really worth it to exchange them and I remember in the pre-COVID days it was usually easy to either slip them into an envelope on your airline for donation to their chosen charity or drop it off at a collection point within the airport. I've been keeping my eye out for the latter on my past few visits to the airport but I haven't come across any.

Are these donation points yet another casualty of the COVID years? Or are they still present and I just happen to be missing them? If so, locations in either Adelaide or Perth airports would be most helpful.

And if they aren't an option, what are others doing with the bits of shrapnel they're collecting on their overseas travels?

 

[markis10]

Change for good is still running, if the bins are hard to find maybe AFF could rally its members in 2026 to do a collective drive for coins to donate?

 

[Quickstatus]

Just drop all your foreign coins at Commbank near you. They give it to UNICEF Australia

 

[AIRwin]

Or Bankwest:

UNICEF Australia's FAQs

Read our FAQs to find out more about what UNICEF does in Australia and how you can help.

www.unicef.org.au

 

[Quickstatus]

Or Bankwest:

Yes, as they are a fully owned subsidiary of CommBank

 

[markis10]

Or Bankwest:

It’s been a while since Bankwest had stores/branches, after all they are now part of the Commonweath bank spam service and 100% digital.

 

[Denali]

Just drop all your foreign coins at Commbank near you. They give it to UNICEF Australia

Trying to find a bank branch these days

 

[doctorstrangelove]

Thanks everyone for your input - it looks like it's off to the CBA to lighten my wallet (and my soul)!