# tap+ DONATE™ boxes to offer contactless giving at rugby championships

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/03/30/tap-donate-boxes-offer-contactless-giving-rugby-championships/
- Published: 2017-03-30T12:42:43+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**DONATE™, run by the National Funding Scheme, will enable contactless giving at
this week’s European Rugby Championships by providing tap+ DONATE™ boxes.**

 

Spectators will be able to tap the eight donation boxes, placed at bars and around
the ground, with their credit or debit cards to donate £3 with each tap. The contactless
donation boxes will be available at the quarter finals, semi-finals and final.

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The donations will support School of Hard Knocks, a charity which works to tackle
unemployment using the disciplines of rugby.

 

 

 

![tap+DONATE contactless giving box](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2017/03/
tap-donate-contactless-box-side.jpg)

 

## Payment via Barclaycard

 

Barclaycard provides the payment acceptance technology for the tap+ DONATE devices.
It recently led an 11-charity trial of the boxes, which involved consultation with
Charities Aid Foundation.

 

The pods were commissioned by Visa, which has been working with its partners since
2014 to enable cardholders to support their favourite charities using contactless,
and designed by Sprout.

 

Payworks developed the contactless donation box app, and integrated this with payment
functionality inside the Miura card reader. 

 

 

 

![tap+DONATE contactless giving box](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2017/03/
tap-donate-contactless-box-inside.jpg)

_Miura card-reader inside the tap+DONATE box_

 

## Support from Heineken®

 

Heineken®, sponsors of the European Rugby Club Rugby, are promoting a fundraising
campaign for the School of Hard Knocks. A film and sponsored bungee jump involving
Nick Easter and Ugo Monye at the Murrayfield final in mid May will conclude six 
weeks of fundraising.

 

The charity fundraising campaign starts this Friday, 31 March, in line with the 
first European rugby quarter final.

 

Jack Lewars, COO of [School of Hard Knocks](http://www.schoolofhardknocks.org), 
said:

 

“The tap+DONATE™ service allows School of Hard Knocks to capitalise on the generosity
of rugby supporters. The ease of touching a credit/debit card on a tap+DONATE™ unit
to give £3 makes the process of giving as even easier than ordering a beer.”

 

## About National Funding Scheme

 

The National Funding Scheme, operating under the DONATE™ brand, provides a range
of mobile fundraising tools to maximise fundraising campaigns.

 

Launched in 2013, [DONATE™](http://www.easydonate.org) is a platform that allows
the UK public to conveniently donate via touch, SMS text or online.

 

As a charity itself, all NFS’s costs are covered by the Gift Aid scheme. When no
Gift Aid is available NFS charges 4.5% to cover transaction and administration costs.

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