People’s Postcode Lottery:
Postcode Education Trust
Working with UNICEF to ensure every child learns
Working together
People’s Postcode Lottery and UNICEF UK have been working together since 2017 and by the end of 2024, £20 million had been raised for children by players of the Postcode Lottery.
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What we’re doing
Together, Postcode Education Trust and UNICEF are working to ensure every child can learn, no matter what.
We help children affected by conflict and crisis to access their right to a quality education by supporting Education in Emergencies work, enabling local communities, advocating for education and sharing knowledge and innovations.
This work is vital as currently there are more than 224 million children globally affected by crises who need educational support.
When emergencies happen, education is often the first service suspended and the last restored during crises. In countries affected by emergencies, without access to education, children face a future full of risk including not fulfilling their potential. risk losing their futures.
Funding from players of the People’s Postcode Lottery supports UNICEF to provide uninterrupted education and help children to develop skills to cope with the trauma of crisis, supplying learning spaces that are safe, child-friendly and equipped with water and sanitation facilities. It also helps us to work with governments to measure whether children are learning and to build stronger education systems so that we can prepare for and be resilient in the face of climate change.
Where we work
In 2023 and 2024 nearly a quarter of a million children were supported through the partnership in Eastern and Southern Africa. From 2025 we have expanded our work to also include our Education in Emergencies work in South Asia, a region home to 36% of the world’s total child population.
This new phase builds on the foundation of work that we have only been able to carry out thanks to Postcode Education Trust and the Players of People’s Postcode Lottery and their flexible approach to funding.
Funding provided by the players of People’s Postcode Lottery allows UNICEF to:
- Provide digital learning opportunities to enable children to access quality education and develop essential life skills.
- Deliver support to children whose education is affected by emergencies.
- Build capacity for UNICEF coordination, learning and innovation, to strengthen the impact of our Education in Emergencies responses across the East and Southern Africa region.
