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CitizenCard is extending their 25 years of issuing UK citizens with trusted ID with the launch of SimpleSavings, a discount scheme for cardholders on top UK brands to help ease the pinch of the Cost of Living crisis.
With discounts on brands such as the AA, Currys, TopCashback, Samsung and more, this will help CitizenCard cardholders' incomes go further.
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CitizenCard has launched a new app, available free from Apple and Google Play Stores, that checks if a PASS (Proof of Age Standards Scheme) card is genuine.
The app has already carried out more than 58,000 checks and has successfully validated 65% of the cards presented.
18,000 cards have been confirmed as fake so the app enables licensees and doorstaff to remove these cards from circulation.
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The UK's longest-established photo-ID scheme CitizenCard has teamed up with Post Office to issue Post Office PASS Cards. Anyone in the UK can apply at a cost of £15 for a Post Office PASS card via postoffice.citizencard.com
The Home Office and police-endorsed PASS (Proof of Age Standards Scheme) hologram on each card means that shops, bars, cinemas, clubs and travel operators can trust the card as a valid form of proof of age/photo-ID.
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CitizenCard's retail programme 'No ID, No Sale!' has had a complete refresh with a brand new website noidnosale.com and a new 2021 retail pack containing "SCAN ME" materials including window vinyl, shelf wobblers, posters and A7 flyers. These all offer a £4 discount on the cost of a CitizenCard. The pack also contains A3 Tobacco Notice, Refusals Register, Under 25? Poster, badges and CitizenCard application forms.
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CitizenCard has partnered with Yoti, the digital identity company, and launched Yoti CitizenCard, the new ID solution for the UK, on 3rd of May 2018.
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A new 18+ CitizenCard design has been launched.
The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) has agreed to its logo appearing on the front of all 18+ CitizenCards, alongside the UK Home Office's Security Industry Authority (SIA) logo.
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CitizenCard is pleased to announce that we will be continuing our partnership with the Boomtown Fair Music and Arts festival again this year.
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CitizenCard welcomes today's (Wednesday 21 December 2016) launch of the campaign by Her Majesty's Passport Office to encourage young people to leave their passport at home and to use a PASS card instead.
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CitizenCard has launched a partnership with Love2shop. Anyone over 18 who applies online in addition to their CitizenCard gets a Love2shop Partner Card for FREE.
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CitizenCard has launched a new card design for our under 18 cards. It looks a lot like the 18+ card, but is yellow instead of blue. The new design is for two age bands: 16-17 and Under 16. All cards will now feature the date when the 16-17 cardholders turn 18 and the under 16 cardholders turn 16.
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Home Office Minister Norman Baker today (Tuesday 10 June 2014) launched the new 18+ PASS card design that features on 18+ CitizenCards. The new design displays the logos of the Association of Chief Police Officers, the Trading Standards Institute and the Security Industry Authority (SIA) that licenses bar and club doorstaff across the UK.
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The 'No ID, No Sale!' campaign, run by CitizenCard, celebrates CitizenCard's 15th anniversary by launching today (10 June 2014) a new pack featuring the new 18+ CitizenCard. The pack contains a Statutory Tobacco Notice, window vinyl, poster, Manager's Guide, refusals register, CitizenCard application forms and dispenser, and a new message aimed at young adults likely to be asked for ID – "it's not personal, it's the law".
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We are very sad to learn today (Wednesday 8 January 2014) of the death of former Northern Ireland and Home Office Minister Paul Goggins, MP for Manchester Wythenshawe & Sale East.
TRUSTED ID SINCE 1999
The PASS hologram on each CitizenCard is endorsed by the Home Office, Police, SIA and retailers.
