The phrase "collect change" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to gathering money in coins or small bills. For example, "At the end of the day, I collected the change from the register and put it in the safe."
He was pretending to collect change where there was none.
"They should use those jars next to the cash register to collect change for charity". Coffee-bar managers and employees defend tipping.
A private fund-raising effort called Pennies for Ponies has netted $2,000 through the work of a second grader in Wantagh, Rachel Obergh, who wants elementary schools in Nassau County to collect change to help restore the carousel's animals.
Fourteen repurposed parking meters across the city will collect change for nonprofits that serve the homeless.
Many thousands of children have appeared at the door with a Halloween bag, not just for candy, but one to collect change for UNICEF.
According to Gordon Glass, the luncheon started around 1947. "In those days, we used to collect change from everyone and have a raffle for a bottle of vodka, scotch, gin and bourbon every week," he said.
And there were people collecting change in paper cups and sleeping in cardboard bedding.
They also have a small dancing monkey that collects change that goes towards their indie recordings.
They sold thousands of shirts, held car washes, collected change outside grocery stores and organized benefit concerts, raising about $1 million over the last five years.
In the downtown passageway, a bongo player collecting change in a pith helmet says he won't talk to a reporter unless he's paid.
But even I, at school in London at the time, remember the sense of solidarity – the buckets collecting change for "Coal not Dole" outside every tube station – that seemed to envelope much (though, of course, not all) of the nation.
