Vision & mission
Novamedia/Postcode Lottery Group is a social enterprise, working to create a better world. We are the biggest global community, doing good and having fun at the same time.
more on our vision & mission
VISION
Why
We believe the world is better off with strong social organisations.
MISSION
How
We help raise funds for social organisations, increase awareness of their work and support new initiatives.
STRATEGY
What
We operate postcode lotteries to raise funds for social organisations and causes, and make good citizenship fun.
How we contribute to our mission
Novamedia/Postcode Lottery Group helps raise structural funds and awareness for good causes in the fields of culture, nature, climate, health, togetherness, human rights and development. We search for investment opportunities that match our expertise and contribute to our mission.
Novamedia is a reliable and loyal financing partner. We understand how important long-term, flexible funding is, and that promoting the good work of charities is crucial in helping them achieve a better world. From experience, we know that a lot of the energy of these organisations goes into raising funds.
Novamedia's funding philosophy
Charities can use the unrestricted funding where they consider it the most effective and impactful, that's the starting point of Novamedia's funding philosophy. The goal is a fairer, greener world in which everyone can participate.
The funding philosophy, which Novamedia has been applying for more than thirty years, is based on a positive approach. We fund organisations that meet our criteria on the basis of trust, for the long term and without restrictions. They are assessed carefully and regularly.
Novamedia CEO Sigrid van Aken places great importance in ‘courageous funding’. “We fund with a firm dose of courage, because risks are part and parcel of serious ambitions,” she explains in this video about the importance of unrestricted, long-term financing.
Read more about our funding philosophy in our story here.
Read the vision document 'Our funding philosophy, Playing for a better world' here.
Our 4 core values
Courageous, Fun, Sharing and Sustainable
Our core values are important in our daily business. They drive our decisions, how we act, how we communicate, and ultimately how we are perceived. Using our core values in daily thinking and actions generates creativity and entrepreneurship. And it bonds us across departments and countries.
Courageous
We have the courage to act outside established frameworks. We come up with solutions others haven’t yet thought of or tried. We put our weight behind charities and NGOs that show that same courage.
Fun
Obviously the players enjoy the games and win great prizes. We enjoy our jobs as well. Through the social organisations, we can make a meaningful contribution to society by supporting both people and the planet.
Sharing
Players win prizes together with their neighbours and the charities we support win too, by receiving vital funding. As a team, we share our knowledge and skills.
Sustainable
We support the global process towards sustainability.
We strive to make sustainable choices wherever we can, through our actions and lottery operations, working with sustainable partners, and making charitable contributions.
Good Operations
As a social enterprise in heart and soul, we also aim to run our own operations as sustainably and inclusively as possible. Our Good Operations (GO) agenda directs our efforts towards achieving this goal.
Although there is an international GO team, led by Novamedia’s Director of International Affairs and made up of representatives from each country, the local managing directors set their own GO targets, in close cooperation with Novamedia. The GO agenda is applied within the framework of each lottery’s operations and is specific to each country.
The Good Operations agenda
Based on our vision, mission and core values and developed with our stakeholders, the GO agenda focuses on five ambitions:
- Being a great place for people to work and meet
- Maximising the positive impact of our funds
- Engaging in customer-focused campaigning
- Achieving leadership in responsible value chains
- Operating with integrity
Reducing CO2 emissions
We want our lotteries to operate climate-neutrally, and we cut CO2 emissions wherever we can. In 2019 the Dutch Postcode Lottery reduced its emissions by 18% compared to the previous year, and Svenska Postkodlotteriet by 15%. In the Netherlands, we fully offset emissions we are unable to prevent (despite our best efforts) by planting trees and investing in clean cookstove initiatives to help cut pollution.
Offices in Sweden and the Netherlands only use FSC paper. The People’s Postcode Lottery office runs on 100% renewable electricity. Deutsche Postcode Lotterie and Nationale Postcode Loterij both provide free public transport for employees.
Inclusiveness
We want Novamedia to be inclusive, not only towards team members but also towards customers and suppliers. Everyone is welcome regardless of nationality, background, age, religion or sexual orientation. We want our employees to feel free to be themselves in an atmosphere of openness, equality and respect.
We aim for gender balance in our workforce and our senior management teams and equal pay for men and women. In 2019 our Executive Board consisted of two women and one man, our Supervisory Board comprised three women and three men.
How we live our mission
People
Resilient societies and people form the basis for further development and growth.
Planet
Only by conserving and protecting the earth’s resources and ecosystems can we ensure a sustainable and fair use of our natural resources.
Openness
We organise our postcode lotteries in a responsible way and communicate openly, providing stakeholders with an unbiased picture of our performance and impact.