Novamedia/Postcode Lotteries is the third largest donor in the world

On 23 December 2011 Novamedia/Postcode Lotteries’, the founder of the People’s Postcode Lottery, was announced as the world’s third-largest private charity donor.

Novamedia/Postcode Lotteries’ is in third place, having donated a total of £451 million for good causes across the world. Only the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in America and the Wellcome Trust in the UK (which donated £1.67 billion and £602 million respectively) are ahead as the largest private donors in the world.

The list, compiled by London-based business newspaper City AM, places the WK Kellogg Foundation in fourth place and the Ford Foundation in fifth.

Charity Lotteries

Set up in 1989, Novamedia/Postcode Lotteries’ organise lotteries to raise money for charities. Novamedia/Postcode Lotteries’ have donated over £3.35bn in total, including £451m in 2010.
The People’s Postcode Lottery in the UK donates 20 per cent of its profit to charity and all of the money raised by the UK lottery stays in the country. The lottery raises unrestricted funds for charities such as Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres, CHILDREN 1ST, Missing People and donates project funding through its grant-giving People’s Postcode Trust.

Over £15.7 million has been raised for charities in the UK since its launch in 2005.

For more information about Novamedia visit www.novamedia.nl

For more information about People’s Postcode Lottery in the UK visit www.postcodelottery.com