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John Lewis Finance - FX offers, voucher codes and free donations
Give as you Live Online is the free and easy way to raise money for a charity of your choice when you shop online with 6,000+ stores.
John Lewis Foreign Currency make travel money easy. Enjoy fast service, great rates on up to 60 currencies and a buy back guarantee if your holiday is cancelled.
Choose to have your money delivered to your door, click & collect at Waitrose or buy at a John Lewis Bureau de Change.
Home Delivery
You can order your currency online for secure and insured home delivery: the minimum order value is £250 and the maximum is £2,500. Delivery is free for all orders over £500.
Click & Collect
Order your travel money online and collect it from one of over 330 Waitrose and John Lewis shops nationwide.
They buy unused travel money
If you have any leftover notes at the end of your trip, just pop to your nearest Bureau de Change where they'd be happy to buy them back.
How it works
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Visit the store via our website or app, then shop as normal
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Important information
Donations may only apply to the sale price and do not include VAT, delivery and other such costs. Please do not use voucher codes from other websites as this may affect your donation.
Financial transactions will be processed in GBP.
John Lewis Finance and John Lewis & Partners Bureau de Change are both trading names of John Lewis plc. Registered office: 171 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5NN. Registered in England (Registered Company Number 233462). John Lewis plc introduce the panel of carefully chosen providers in Bureau de Change products and services, whom each hold the appropriate licences with the Financial Conduct Authority and HMRC.
Foreign Currency online from both John Lewis Finance and John Lewis & Partners is provided by First Rate Exchange Services Limited registration number 04287490 (Money Service Business licence number MLR-64068), whose registered office is at Great West House, Great West Road, Brentford, West London, TW8 9DF England
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Give as you Live Online is a free and easy way to raise money for your favourite charity, just by shopping online.
Once you've signed up, you can browse our website for the store you want to shop with. Click 'shop & raise' to go to their website, then continue to shop as normal.
We'll then email you within 1-7 days to let you know how much you've raised.
You can support any of our 200,000+ UK charities.
Our charities range from big national charities to local schools, churches and social groups.
The donation amount varies from store to store. Most of the time you raise a percentage of what you spend - between 1% and 10% - whilst sometimes it's a fixed amount.
With some stores there are different rates or restrictions depending on what you buy - you can see more information on each store's page on our website.
Yes! You don't pay anything extra for your shopping, the donation is made at no extra cost to you.
It's also completely free for your charity. There are no joining or payment fees, so 100% of the donation will reach the charity.
We pay charities once a month via our payment technology partner, Stripe.
You can view the status of every donation within your account. A donation will typically move from 'pending' to 'approved' to 'paid' over the course of a few months.
As a "thank you" for sending them sales and customers, our stores pay us a commission.
We use this commission to make a donation to your chosen charity.
We donate 50% of the commission we receive, with the other 50% used to fund the on-going development of Give as you Live Online, which is free to all charities and members.
All donation amounts we display represent the amount the charity will receive - a 5% donation means a 5% donation!