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Contactless Fundraising for Museums and Tourist Attractions

Museums and visitor attractions benefit greatly from installing contactless card donation machines to enable visitors to donate using card, contactless, and mobile payments.

Dona’s free donation webpages also provide organisations with a seamless way to collect donations online. 

With fewer people carrying cash, it’s important that tourist attractions have a Digital Donation Machine option in place to give their visitors an easy way to donate.

Find out more about how our contactless donation terminals can help maximise your organisation’s fundraising. Contact us today.

Dona Donations has supplied donation terminals and platform support to the British Museum since April 2024.

The best place to position card donation machines at your attraction

Most attractions benefit from donation machines being placed at entrances and exits, so that visitors and members of the public can give generously as they enter and leave the building, event or space.

Placing additional machines near important artefacts, popular attractions or at the centrepiece highlight of a tour can also inspire visitors to give generously.  

An added benefit is that charitable organisations are able to customise their donation machines to highlight up to 20 different campaigns for the donor to choose from, inspiring visitor engagement with various fundraising goals and ensuring donors know where their gift is going. 

Tourist attractions fundraise more with Dona

  • Designed to maximise Gift Aid, increasing donations by 25%
  • Average donations are higher with Dona
  • Fundraise via donation machine, website and QR code
  • Wi-Fi and 4G, with offline backup
  • Self-service, choose your cause, and Tap + Go
  • Portable and secure, with up to 10-hr battery life
  • HMRC-friendly reports and UK customer support

Gurkha Museum switches to Dona

“Unlike our previous provider, Dona’s machines also allow us to accept offline donations when we have had trouble with our internet connection in the museum.

Overall the service from Dona has been friendly, fast, and reliable from start to finish. We’re incredibly pleased with the machines and the positive difference they’ve made for our museum.”

Staithes Museum boosts Gift Aid and newsletter signups

“The number of Gift Aid forms has increased from around 40 per month to around 140 per month, and Gift Aid forms per visitor have risen from approximately 1% to 2.5%.

The device has also been hugely beneficial for audience engagement. We’ve had 315 people sign up to the museum’s newsletter using the Dona device—around three times more than through our previous paper forms or website sign-up box.”

Stand Options for Attractions

We supply a variety of stand options so you can install our donation terminals to suit your environment.

The role of fundraising at events

Dona helps organisations collect donations from supporters before, during, and after events with secure and compliant contactless donation terminals.

You can learn more about how to maximise fundraising for your event here…

Management Portal

Access included with every Digital Collection Plate purchase.

Screen image with details of the portal for dona donations card payments

We support all major payment methods

Visa payment icon card accepted by dona donations
Mastercard logo one of the card providers dona donations accepts transactions from
Apple pay icon for cards accepting donations with dona
American express square logo accepted by dona donations
Google pay logo for payments through dona donations
Wifi logo
Diners club logo is accepted as payment for donations through dona donations
Maestro logo in red and blue accepting donations through dona donations