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Where do the profits from Lotto go?

The New Zealand Lottery Grants Board distributes profits made from Lotto NZ as lottery grants to communities throughout New Zealand. These funds are used to benefit New Zealand communities and to achieve our objectives of:

  • supporting volunteers
  • enabling people to help themselves
  • promoting community wellbeing and addressing disadvantage
  • promoting community participation, inclusion and identity
  • ensuring our Treaty of Waitangi obligations are fulfilled.