Allard Stapel, WWF:
"“ We trust you to spend the proceeds well….

This is the final sentence of a letter send by the lottery every quarter. When asked what does the lottery means to us one’s first inclination is to mention the amount of funding we get …15 million euros. However it is not so much the amount but the nature of the funding.

Unrestricted funding is very rare indeed. In our world trust often has been replaced by bureaucracy and control. This makes it difficult for civil society organizations to operate effectively in a fast changing world. The trust of the lottery in our organization in contrast gave WWF enormous possibilities change, innovate, fend off threats, and take up opportunities.

But the lottery to our mind is more. It is a channel to reach a very large public in the Netherlands. We are an organization uniting 920.000 people in the Netherlands. The lottery provides us with an alternative channels to reach the public with our message. The lottery in all these aspects is a model of how to support civil society worldwide.

Civil Society Organizations should be an independent voice. All too often we are strapped in by Government funding and therefore cannot fulfil our role to the full extend. To realize our full potential we will need a broad base in society and unrestricted funding. The lottery can be one source for both.” Back...

Bill Clinton, The Clinton Foundation:

“The Postcode Lottery is the best thing I have ever seen to involve ordinary people in charitable work. A whole community can win and it must be a great feeling to be a part of it.

I urge everyone to continue to support the lottery and to try to get more people to do it and I hope it will be copied by other countries. Than you will see the most unprecedented partnership between ordinary citizens across the world that we have ever seen, which us helps to fight against worldwide problems.” Back...