Yellow coins: which coins, where to deposit them?

Every year, the Hospital Foundation is organizing its emblematic operation Yellow Coins and its famous yellow piggy bank. For 34 yearsthis initiative created by the Foundation of Hospitals in 1989helps raise funds for improve hospitalization conditions for children and adolescents In France. After Bernadette Chirac, it is now Brigitte Macron who runs the operation. In this year of the Olympic Games, the health benefits of sport was the theme of the 2024 campaign. On the program: the establishment of systems allowing sports practice in hospitals (adapted sports fields, climbing walls, motor skills courses, etc.) as well as the financing of activities sports at the sea or in the mountains. Who is it? godfather ? Where to have piggy bank ? Where to put your Yellow Coins if you don’t have a piggy bank? Where to drop them off? At the Post Office? What coins can we donate? How to make a donation online? Everything you need to know to take part in this solidarity event.

Who is the godfather of the Yellow Pieces?

Like every year since 2016, Didier Deschamps is the godfather of the Yellow Pieces operation. David Douillet was godfather of the Cadeaux Jaunes operation until 2008.

Who is behind the Yellow Pieces?

The Yellow Pieces operation was launched in 1989 by the Hospital Foundation. Bernadette Chiracwife of Jacques Chirac, was the President of the Hospital Foundation from 1994 to 2019. From now on, the President is Brigitte Macron since 2019.

What is the Yellow Pieces operation for?

Since 1989, the operation of Yellow pieces made it possible to finance nearly 9,700 projects in the hospital For improve the daily lives of hospitalized children and adolescents. In 2023, 209 new projects were financed across the country. This year again, the donations collected help hospitalized children and adolescents and support thousands of projects in public and private non-profit pediatric health establishments, such as:

• Of the specific places for adolescents within the hospital (support of the first Maison des adolescents, in Le Havre, in 1999, then participation in the creation of the Maison de Solenn in Paris in 2004 and the dissemination of these structures in other cities in France)
• Family homes intended to facilitate the presence of families at the hospital
• Of the parent-child rooms
• Of the service facilities (development of games rooms, sports halls, equipment for school and hospital centers, creation of cooking workshops, organization of stays and minibus outings, etc.)
• Maintaining the link between hospitalized children and school
• Financing more than 2,800 decoration and furnishing projects

Each year, nearly 2 million piggy banks are available. Sofrom January, it is possible to recover in 8,000 post offices a cardboard piggy bank specially designed to store your Yellow Coins. This piggy bank is free. It is also available in the periodical TVMagazineinserted by Le Figaro, in the Unique Heritage Media magazines (National Geographic Kids – Sorcières – Pirouette – Tout Understanding Junior – Le Monde des Ados – Journal de Mickey) and in stores Crossroads. But if you don’t have a piggy bank, it doesn’t matter, you can still return your coins to post offices in France and the overseas territories.

What coins to give?

Operation Yellow Pieces accepts all the pieces (copper and yellow coins, cents and euros). Thus, we can place the coins of 1 centime, 2 centimes, 5 centimes, 10 centimes, 20 centimes, 50 centimes, 1 euro and 2 euros. But also all tickets including foreign currencies and francscan we read on the website of the Hospital Foundation.

Where to deposit your Yellow Coins?

During the entire duration of the Yellow Coins Operation, bring back your coins (with or without a piggy bank) until the end of the operation :

► In all post offices in France and the overseas territories

► In one of the 400 Coinstar and/or Eurocycleur terminals in the Yellow Coins colors, located within large retail chains (supermarkets, hypermarkets) partners of the operation. The list of terminals will be available on the Yellow Pieces website.

Can we participate in the Yellow Pieces operation online?

Quite. Several options are available to you to participate in the Yellow Pieces operation:

► Make a donation online on the secure donation form

► Make a donation by SMS by sending DONATION by SMS to 92 111. This donation of 5 euros will be automatically deducted from your mobile operator bill. The “mobile” operators offering this form of donation are: Bouygues Telecom, Free, Orange and SFR in mainland France only.

► Send a check payable to “Pièces Jaunes” to the address: Fondation des Hôpitaux, 9 rue Scribe – 75009 Paris

► Rounding up your purchases at checkout in campaign partner stores
► Create your online kitty on: macollecte.piecesjaunes.fr/pj

To know that 66% of your donation is tax deductibleup to 20% of your taxable income.