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Make a Difference with the RSPCA Winter Coin Trail

Animal suffering doesn't stop at Christmas. Join the RSPCA Coin Trail by yourself, with your family, school, workplace, club or community group and make a lasting impact. Help rescue animals and give them the critical care they need with every coin you collect.

A child wearing a handmade paper bunny mask holding up a shiny 2p coin.

What is the RSPCA Coin Trail?

The RSPCA Coin Trail is a simple, fun, and effective way for people to raise donations for animals in need. Here’s how it works:

  • Collect Coins. Invite children, families, and your community to donate spare change, it could be within a school, community group centre or in the outdoors. Every penny counts – no donation is too small! 
  • Create Your Trail. Gather as a group to line up your collected coins, creating a “trail” that you can measure. Every metre of coins you lay helps fund vital rescue, care, and rehabilitation for animals in need this winter!
  • Pay in your funds. Once you’ve finished your Coin Trail, pay in the money you’ve raised to help the RSPCA rescue, rehabilitate and care for animals in need like Nova, Dante and Beatrice.

How to participate

  • 1 Register Your Group. Sign up today to receive everything you need to get started, including ideas for organising your event and resources to promote it with families and friends.
  • 2 Choose Your Collection Style. Collect coins over a month and create your trail at the end, or make it a one-day event. Choose the format that works best for your group!
  • 3 Build & Measure Your Trail. Gather your group and line up your coins to create the longest trail you can. Measure your trail to see which animal facts you’ve unlocked! Once you’ve finished your trail and spoken to the RSPCA, we will send you a certificate along with all of your unlocked facts.

How to participate

  • 1 Register Your Group. Decide on your group - whether family, workplace, or community - and start collecting coins!
  • 2 Choose Your Collection Style. Collect coins over a month and create your trail at the end, or make it a one-day event. Choose the format that works best for your group!
  • 3

    Build & Measure Your Trail. Gather your group and line up your coins to create the longest trail you can. Measure the length of your trail to see how far your coins reach!

    Why not see if you can make the longest trail possible, could you get it to stretch around your whole playground or office? Or perhaps you could make a picture out of the coins you collect. Could you make an image of a hedgehog? Or perhaps a Christmas Robin? We'd love to see pictures of your trail so please do send them to yourstory@rspca.org.uk.

Share your trail

Make it easy to spread the word! Tag @RSPCA and use #RSPCACoinTrail to join the community! Or share your photos with yourstory@rspca.org.uk.