Fleet moss restoration © Yorkshire Peat Partnership
People's Postcode Lottery
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 of People’s Postcode Lottery have been raising funds 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."
(C) Helena Dolby
©Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
Seagrass bed © Paul Naylor
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 has supported fantastic projects across The Wildlife Trusts from helping children to connect with nature, to protecting wild places and inspiring people to take action for nature. Read on to find examples of Wildlife Trusts that have received grants, and what the funding has supported.
Wildlife and Wild Places
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30 Days Wild
30 Days Wild is The Wildlife Trusts' annual challenge event, where everyone involved does one wild thing a day throughout the month of June. Spending time each day doing something with nature makes us feel happier and healthier – find out more here.
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
