# Postcode Lotteries once more named world’s third largest private charity donor

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/12/18/postcode-lotteries-once-more-named-worlds-third-largest-private-charity-donor/
- Published: 2017-12-18T08:30:41+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Novamedia/Postcode Lotteries, which operates People’s Postcode Lottery, along 
with its sister lotteries in the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany, has once again
been named as the world’s third largest private charity donor.**

 

The full [City A.M Charity Donor Index 2017](http://www.cityam.com/giving-2017) 
appeared in a special City A.M Giving Magazine on 14 December, with the top two 
places taken by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the UK’s Wellcome Trust.

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Novamedia/Postcode Lotteries awarded £543 million to charities and good causes across
the world in 2016 – an 8% increase on 2015 – with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
and the Wellcome Trust awarding £3.6 billion and £601 million respectively.

 

Novamedia/Postcode Lotteries operates six separate charity lotteries across The 
Netherlands, Sweden, Great Britain, and Germany.

 

In the UK, players of [People’s Postcode Lottery](https://www.postcodelottery.co.uk/)
have raised £255 million for over 4,000 good causes. A minimum of 31% of the price
of a People’s Postcode Lottery ticket goes to charities and good causes, supporting
organisations including [Maggie’s](https://www.maggiescentres.org/), Missing People,
[Depaul UK](https://uk.depaulcharity.org/), Greenhouse Sports and the Wildlife Trusts.

 

The City A.M Charity Donor Index is compiled by Professor Theo Schuyt and his team
at the VU University Amsterdam.

 

> Fantastic news: thanks to players like you, Novamedia/Postcode Lotteries has been
> named by [@CityAM](https://twitter.com/CityAM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) as the 3rd 
> largest private donor in the world! Together, players raised an astonishing £543M
> for charities worldwide in 2016. 👏🙌🌎[https://t.co/UpfgPgi9me](https://t.co/UpfgPgi9me)
> — Postcode Lottery (@PostcodeLottery) [December 14, 2017](https://twitter.com/PostcodeLottery/status/941306950687617024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 * **[Grants of up to £20,000 available to local charities & good causes](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/01/30/grants-20000-available-local-charities-good-causes/)**(
   30 January 2019)
 * **[People’s Postcode Lottery celebrates £500 million charity milestone](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/12/04/peoples-postcode-lottery-celebrates-500-million-charity-milestone/)**(
   4 December 2019)
 * **[Novamedia & Postcode Lotteries named Europe’s biggest charity donor](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/12/20/novamedia-postcode-lotteries-named-europes-biggest-charity-donor/)**(
   20 December 2019)

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