# People’s Postcode Lottery part of world’s largest private charity donor of 2016

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/12/22/peoples-postcode-lottery-part-worlds-largest-private-charity-donor-2016/
- Published: 2016-12-22T09:00:03+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**[Novamedia](http://www.novamedia.nl/), which includes [People’s Postcode Lottery](https://www.postcodelottery.co.uk/),
has been named the world’s top private charity donor in City A.M.’s fifth annual
ranking.**

 

As well as Novamedia being the biggest private charity donor, it is third on the
overall City A.M. 2016 Charity Index, behind the [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation](http://www.gatesfoundation.org/),
and the [Wellcome Trust](https://wellcome.ac.uk/).

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The index compares the total amount that private donors raised for charity throughout
the year. At the top of the list, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded £3.6bn,
the Wellcome Trust awarded £606m and £446m came from Novamedia’s Postcode Lotteries.

 

Prof. Theo Schuyt, (VU University Amsterdam, [European Research Network on Philanthropy](http://ernop.eu/)),
who determines the rankings, said:

 

> “Many of the other organisations in the list are endowed foundations; their grants
> originate from legacies and donations from corporations or banks. However, People’s
> Postcode Lottery in Great Britain and the Novamedia family in The Netherlands,
> Sweden and Germany, generates its grants from actively fundraising money by operating
> charity lotteries.”

 

The People’s Postcode Lottery recently announced two awards. [WaterAid](http://www.wateraid.org/uk/‎)
has received £2.5m to support its water and sanitation projects across Sub-Saharan
Africa, while £250,000 went to [Contact the Elderly](http://www.contact-the-elderly.org.uk/),
which organises free, monthly Sunday afternoon tea parties for people aged 75 or
over who live alone.

 

Players of People’s Postcode Lottery has supported WaterAid since 2013, and £1.3
million worth of funding has already gone to the charity.

 

On receiving the award, Barbara Frost, chief executive of WaterAid, said:

 

> “The support of players of the People’s Postcode Lottery has had an incredible
> impact on the lives of people in some of the world’s poorest communities, through
> improved access to clean water and good sanitation. Together, we are working towards
> a world where everyone everywhere has access to safe water, a decent toilet and
> good hygiene by 2030.”

 

The full City A.M. Charity Index 2016 appeared in a special 52-page magazine ‘City
A.M. Giving’ in the Tuesday 20th December issue of City A.M.

 

Main image: Supported charities at a People’s Postcode Lottery Millions event. Copyright
Darren Casey / DCimaging

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