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.

The app cannot validate all PASS cards (for now, Young Scot and Totum NUS cards are...

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.

93% of 16-34 year olds take out valuable passports...

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.

We've also got some great 'No ID, No Sale!' freebies for retailers...

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.

A Yoti CitizenCard makes it safer for young people to prove their identity online and in person. The card can be used to create cardholder's digital identity on the free Yoti mobile app and bears a PASS (Proof of Age Standards Scheme) hologram endorsed by the Home Office. In addition, the 18+ photo ID card displays National Police...

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.

Suffolk's Assistant Chief Constable Rachel Kearton (pictured above), the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) lead for alcohol harm and vulnerability, is urging customers to use the new cards as photo ID instead of passports:

"Enforcing the law on underage sale

CitizenCard is pleased to announce that we will be continuing our partnership with the Boomtown Fair Music and Arts festival again this year.

Boomtown Fair will welcome people of all ages to enjoy festivities at festival site on the Matterley Estate, near Winchester. The innovative setting, stellar line-up and range of activities on offer means that there’s something for all ages at Boomtown this year.

Festival organisers are clear that ID checking on site will be incredibly strict...