# Barbican Art Gallery and Mary’s Meals launch contactless donations

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/05/13/barbican-art-gallery-marys-meals-launch-contactless-donations/
- Published: 2016-05-13T10:24:50+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Two more charities have announced that they are using contactless donation points.
The [Barbican Art Gallery](http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery) and [Mary’s Meals](https://www.marysmeals.org.uk/)
both stated that they would be using the technology to raise funds this month.**

The Barbican is to install a contactless donation point at the entrance to its Curve
Gallery that will enable visitors to donate £2 with a swipe of their phone or contactless
card, while Mary’s Meals is putting the boxes in a number of cafes and asking people
to give a 30 pence donation: enough, it says, to provide five meals to children 
in their place of education.

[Earnest Labs](http://earnest-labs.com/) has created the bespoke contactless payment
terminal, called [Lunchbox](http://taplunchbox.com/), which launched on Tuesday 
May 3 through partner vendors Reynolds, ICCO, Mortimers Cafe in London and Lynwood
Cafe, Oxfordshire.

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Cancer Research UK has previously carried out two trials of the technology, in shops
and on the street. Last year it introduced contactless payments to its shops in 
Kensington, Guildford, Marylebone and Brighton. The trial enabled people to donate
£2 by [tapping their contactless card on a shop window](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/01/22/cruk-trials-contactless-giving-through-the-charity-shop-window/)
fitted with an interactive screen. Earlier this year, it marked World Cancer Day
by holding [fundraising collections using contactless](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/02/03/216279/)
donation terminals in 16 locations, again allowing people to give £2.

Comic Relief also used [contactless donations points on Red Nose Day](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/02/11/comic-relief-raise-contactless-donations-statues/)
this year, letting people make a donation of £1 via statues of famous comedians 
placed in cities around the UK.

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