People's Postcode Lottery

Fleet moss restoration by the Yorkshire Peat Partnership

Fleet moss restoration © Yorkshire Peat Partnership

People's Postcode Lottery

Protecting amazing wild places
Creating new homes for wildlife
Getting kids learning in nature
Supporting teachers to teach outdoors

How players of People's Postcode Lottery support our work

People's Postcode Lottery is a charity lottery which raises vital funding to support a huge range of good causes. Since 2016, players have raised over £18 million for The Wildlife Trusts!

This funding has helped us care for beautiful nature reserves, which are home to wonderful wildlife, and restore amazing wild places like saltmarsh, peatlands and kelp forest to capture carbon and tackle climate change. It has enabled us to stand up for nature under threat and run outdoor education programmes and exciting events to help people get closer to nature.

Thank you to players of People’s Postcode Lottery for supporting The Wildlife Trusts.

"I don’t feel stressed when I’m outside. It’s not like a classroom – there are no walls."
Ben, age 12, attended nature and mental health sessions with Lancashire Wildlife Trust

Where the funding goes

Players of People's Postcode Lottery support our work with wildlife, wild landscapes and local communities across England, Wales and Scotland. The Wildlife Trusts Council decides how to allocate the funding in order to have the greatest impact for wildlife, including giving grants to individual Wildlife Trusts to support our shared mission to restore nature on land and at sea and bring people closer to nature.

Funding raised by players of People's Postcode Lottery helps give children and young people amazing opportunities to connect with nature through Forest School, Nature Tots and other outdoor learning and play sessions provided by their local Wildlife Trust. These programmes take place in urban areas where children would otherwise have few opportunities to spend time in nature.  The funding also supports our vital work to protect special wild places, stand up for our seas and inspire people to take action for wildlife.  

You can find some examples of Wildlife Trusts that have received grants, and what the funding is supporting, by clicking the menu options below.

Postcode Climate Challenge

Players of People’s Postcode Lottery raised almost £2 million in funding for The Wildlife Trusts as part of the Postcode Climate Challenge initiative. Thanks to this funding boost, we have been able to repair and restore carbon-storing habitats on land and at sea, reduce our carbon emissions and inspire people to take action for our climate.

Scroll through our interactive story map to find out more about what this funding enabled us to achieve in one year.

“Nature can be our biggest ally in limiting global temperature rises, but we have to give it a huge helping hand. We need to cut emissions at source to fight climate change – and we can also have a big impact by restoring nature because wilder places lock-up carbon.” Craig Bennett, Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trusts