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<p>The Church recognised in 2017 the need to adapt to the major move away from cash
towards contactless payments. Today a much larger, fast-evolving range of contactless
solutions is available through the Church’s own Parish Buying service, with over 1,900
churches now having the means to accept payments or donations by card or mobile phone.
The Church aims to have over half of its 16,000 churches able to take contactless
payments and donations in the next three years. The Church of England in partnership
with the Church in Wales is working through its ‘Parish Buying' programme to negotiate
competitive prices for churches. More information on that can be found at the ‘Parish
Buying' website: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.parishbuying.org.uk%2Fcategories%2Fgiving-and-payments&data=02%7C01%7Csimon.stanley%40churchofengland.org%7C463efdae0e324efdbb5d08d7cb5f674d%7C95e2463b3ab047b49ac1587c77ee84f0%7C0%7C0%7C637201482941279346&sdata=XLQDDc%2FkW4gGHUCAeltyWaZywD6ipD4RV2qcPgP%2FuOE%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.parishbuying.org.uk/categories/giving-and-payments</a></p>
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