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Charity Lottery
Lotteries in Europe
When it comes to the free movement of goods and services lotteries are something of an exception in Europe. National borders and local legislation determine and restrict the market and national governments implement policies that impose conditions designed to limit the availability of games of chance. The European Commission is currently conducting investigations in several member states - including the Netherlands - to determine whether these countries meet these conditions. More...
International Association of Charity Lotteries
Recent developments have made the European context relevant for national charity lotteries. In 2007 the Association of Charity Lotteries in Europe (ACLEU) was established to promote the charity lottery model and to give a voice to charity lotteries and their beneficiaries in the European debate on games of chance and in all matters relating to fundraising through charity lotteries. All Novamedia's charity lotteries have joined this international association.
Calculations suggest that as much as 10 billion euros could be raised every year if every member state of the EU had a charity lottery.
With this message ACLEU represents the interests of charity lotteries and their beneficiaries in Brussels and in the member states of the EU. For more information see the ACLEU website
Financing civil societey
For non governmental organisations such as Amnesty International, Unicef, WWF and many others, the quest for core funding to sustain their good work is a constant challenge, occupying an high percentage of their time and efforts - again and again - project by project, year by year.
Charity lotteries
Local, national and international charities in a number of EU Member States benefit from revenues generated by privately operated charity lotteries. Read about the characteristics of a charity lottery
Sustain funding
In a time of governments withdrawing, and fierce competition for scarce philanthropic and public resources, even the most popular and highly qualified organisations struggle to sustain their funding. Without adequate resources no organisation can do its job. Read more about charity lotteries as fundraising mechanism.
Publications
SEO Economic Research - December 2007 - Better chances for charity lotteries
Swiss Institute for Comparative Law – Study of Gambling Services in the Internal Market of the European Union.
Our charity lotteries
