Youth Fund Sports & Culture and the National Postcode Lottery
The National Postcode Lottery was founded in 1989 to support charities working towards a fair, healthy, and green world. The lottery raises funds for its charities and promotes their work. Over 3 million people play the Postcode Lottery.
With the Postcode Lottery, your postcode is your ticket number. And that ticket sets something positive in motion. Participants, along with their neighbors who also play, have a chance to win hundreds of thousands of prizes every month. At the same time, they support over 150 charities annually with at least 40 percent of their ticket price. That's the power of togetherness, and we call it The Power of Postcodes. Since the Postcode Lottery's inception, €8.4 billion has been donated to people and the environment. The Youth Fund and many other organizations receive support every year.
The Postcode Lottery is part of the Postcode Lottery Group, a social enterprise that has now introduced the unique Postcode Lottery format in five European countries. The goal is to raise as much money as possible for charities through our lotteries. The Postcode Lottery Group is the largest fundraising donor in the world, having donated a record €969 million to charities and cultural partners in 2024. A foundation holds 100% of the shares in the Postcode Lottery Group.
What do we do with the contribution?
Thanks to the contribution of the Postcode Lottery, many children and young people from low-income families can still join a sports club or take creative lessons every year.
