Postcode Earth Trust

Postcode Earth Trust, a Scottish-registered charity and company limited by guarantee established in 2015, channels funding exclusively from People’s Postcode Lottery players to foster vital connections between people, place, and planet. Its mission is to promote appreciation of the natural, creative, and built environment through grants that enhance environmental awareness, education, and positive engagement with cultural, historic, and biodiverse assets. Governed by an independent board, the Trust prioritizes projects driving systemic change, such as environmental protection, biodiversity restoration, climate action, sustainable communities, heritage conservation, and creative nature experiences, supporting established UK charities like Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, Woodland Trust, and National Trust for community wellbeing, access to nature, and broad public benefit.

It funds UK-registered charities delivering national or systemic environmental impact, showing preference for medium-to-large organizations with robust governance, proven track records, and capacity for long-term outcomes; smaller or localized groups are rarely supported. Geographic focus is UK-wide with no regional limits, emphasizing inclusion and experiential connections to nature without religious restrictions.

Grants typically range from £100,000 to £500,000 annually, often multi-year and unrestricted for core costs, capacity building, or strategic projects, awarded proactively on a rolling basis via invitation only—no unsolicited applications accepted. Invited organizations submit detailed proposals and present in person to the Board, which decides at unpublicized meetings. Distinctively, the Trust avoids small-scale interventions, focusing instead on catalysing societal shifts through public education, environmental-social capital enhancement, and lottery-sustained scale for high-impact, evidence-based philanthropy.