Supporting charities and making a difference
Charities and good causes are at the heart of People's Postcode Lottery.
People’s Postcode Lottery manages lotteries for 20 Postcode Trusts and a minimum of 30% from each ticket goes to charities and good causes.
We help tell the charities' stories, share the incredible things that lottery funding enables and increase awareness of their work.
Funding raised by players is bringing clean water to some of the world’s poorest communities, tackling loneliness and social isolation, ending youth unemployment, promoting the rights of women and girls, supporting those living with cancer and their families and protecting wildlife and habitats. And much more.
Funding for impact
By supporting the communities that we are all part of, players are helping realise positive and lasting change.
People’s Postcode Lottery manages 20 draws per month across multiple lotteries for good causes that share our aims to create a better world.
Funding, raised by players, is unrestricted, flexible and long term. This allows charity partners to use the money where it is needed most and in areas where it will have the biggest possible impact.
How Postcode Lottery funding works
The majority of funding is for long term beneficiaries and is unrestricted.
Funds raised by players benefit a variety of charities and good causes and funding is distributed through 20 Postcode Trusts.
People’s Postcode Trust, Postcode Community Trust, Postcode Local Trust, Postcode Neighbourhood Trust, Postcode Places Trust, and Postcode Society Trust welcome funding applications.
These six community focused grant-giving trusts award one year funding between £500 and £25,000 to local community groups, voluntary projects and social enterprises that are creating change at a local level.
Each trust funds local organisations in a different area of Britain. Use the Community Trust Finder search tool to find out more.
Governance
Charity Advisory Committee
The Charity Advisory Committee advises People’s Postcode Lottery on how best to safeguard its mission and increase its impact.
The committee’s purpose is to provide strategic advice and share high-level expertise and knowledge with trustees of the Postcode Trusts. It is a Non-Statutory Advisory Body within Postcode Lottery Ltd.
All decisions on the allocation and distribution of funds raised thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery are made by the trustees of the 20 Postcode Trusts.
Appointments to the Charity Advisory Committee are made by the board of People’s Postcode Lottery.
Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown is chair of the People's Postcode Lottery Charity Advisory Committee.
A passionate advocate for education and health, Sarah is the co-founder and chair of Theirworld, a children's charity set up in 2002 with the goal of ending the global education crisis.
Sarah is also the founder and executive chair of the Global Business Coalition for Education, a non-profit organisation that unites more than 150 corporations from across the world to mobilise in support of universal learning.
In addition, Sarah is a Patron of Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres and SHINE Education Trust, a Global Champion of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood and board member of Generation Unlimited, UNICEF's youth skills partnership. She also helped establish the Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh.
Ruth Davidson
Ruth Davidson, Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links, has been a member of the House of Lords since 2021.
As leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party from 2011 to 2019, Ruth was the youngest political leader in the United Kingdom and helped the party achieve its best electoral performance in 35 years.
She has previously been named one of Time Magazine’s 100 people of influence and often uses her platform to discuss gender, inclusion and equality.
As well as building a successful career as a journalist and broadcaster, Ruth is also a published author and occasional documentary maker. She sits on several commercial and charitable boards and presents a weekly political podcast for Sky News.
Kate Lee
Kate Lee has almost 30 years' experience in the voluntary sector and was awarded an OBE in the 2024 New Year Honours list for services to charity.
She is the former CEO of both the Alzheimer's Society and Young Lives vs Cancer (previously known as CLIC Sargent).
Throughout her career, Kate has prioritised partnership working and founded both the One Dementia Voice Group and the Young People’s Cancer Coalition. These two organisations help charities working in similar areas to come together as a unified voice, speak up on important issues and share best practice.
Kate was previously CEO of Myton Hospices, a large palliative care charity. She also spent 16 years at the British Red Cross where she went on to become Director of UK and International Strategy and Deputy CEO.
Sir John Leighton
Sir John Leighton is the former Director General of the National Galleries of Scotland, a position he held between 2006 and 2024.
During his time in the role, Sir John oversaw the redevelopment of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and increased visitor attendance to the organisation’s three Edinburgh galleries by more than a million.
Sir John was previously director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam for nine years, a building which houses the world's most important collection of Van Gogh's work.
As well as being a historian, art director and curator, Sir John has also written several books and was awarded a knighthood in 2012 for his services to the arts in Scotland.
Delyth Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Drefelin
Delyth Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Drefelin, sits as a Labour Peer in the House of Lords and has more than three decades of experience within the charity sector.
Delyth is the former CEO of Breakthrough Breast Cancer and played a pivotal role in the charity's merger with Breast Cancer Campaign. The two charities joined together to become Breast Cancer Now and then merged again with the support and information charity Breast Cancer Care, to form the UK's largest breast cancer charity. Delyth was the Chief Executive that saw through both the mergers.
In government, Delyth has served as Children's Minister, Intellectual Property Minister and Quality and Government spokesperson for the Department of Work and Pensions in the House of Lords.
Delyth is also the Honorary President of Cancer 52, Patron of Pancreatic Cancer UK and President of the NCVO. She was made Chair of the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) in 2015 and serviced for 6 years in that non-executive role.
Angela Salt
Angela Salt is the former CEO of Girlguiding, the United Kingdom’s largest youth organisation wholly dedicated to girls and young women.
With a passion for supporting and educating young people, Angela began her career as a teacher before moving into communications and media.
Angela earned an OBE for her work as Director of Communications at the Millennium Commission and was later appointed Chief Executive of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.
Angela was also Head of Nations and Regions for LOCOG (London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic games) and UK Director for Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO UK).
Dr Danny Sriskandarajah
Dr Danny Sriskandarajah is Chief Executive of the New Economics foundation, a think tank that promotes social, economic and environmental justice.
A leading voice in the third sector, Danny previously served as CEO of Oxfam GB and Secretary General at CIVICUS, a global alliance of organisations and activists working to strengthen citizen action and civil society.
He is also the former director of the Royal Commonwealth Society, Interim Director of the Commonwealth Foundation and has held various roles at the Institute for Public Policy Research.
Danny is also an author, with his book “Power To The People” providing a blueprint for how individuals can make a difference through greater community engagement.
