Oxfam trialled its new contactless donation boxes at Sainsbury's stores to raise money for the charity's East Africa Crisis Appeal last weekend.
The trial took place on 7 and 8 April at Sainsbury’s Amblecote and Emersons Green stores where donors were able to tap their contactless card or mobile payment device to give a pre-agreed amount to Oxfam.
Oxfam has previously trialled the systems in their own shops and at their events, but this is the first time they’ve teamed up with a major retailer.
A Sainsbury’s spokesman said that the systems offer customers a “safe and secure method to make a donation straight from their bank account instead of having to find some change”.
Oxfam also recently announced that Sainsbury’s customers had donated more than £200,000 worth of Nectar card points for the charity’s East Africa Crisis Appeal.
Sainsbury’s and Oxfam have been working in partnership since 2010, and last year the retailer was named as a member of the Oxfam Emergency Response network as a result of its ongoing emergency and disaster support.
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Donate boxes to appear at rugby games
Mobile donation platform Donate has teamed up with Heineken and the charity the School of Hard Knocks to provide its contactless donation boxes the quarter finals, semi-finals and finals of the 2017 European Rugby Championships to encourage crowd giving to the charity. The school of Hard Knocks works to tackle unemployment using the discipline of rugby.
At the games 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.
Jack Lewars, chief operating officer of School of Hard Knocks, said commented: "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.
“It was a key reason we joined up with Donate. We look forward to raising funds across the upcoming closing games in the European Rugby Championships and so tackle the issues of unemployment, crime and health in our communities through the lessons of sport."
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