Lower Saxony Bingo Environment Foundation
The Lower Saxony Bingo Foundation for Environment and Development Cooperation (short: Bingo Environment Foundation or NBU) is a foundation under civil law based in Hanover. It was founded in 1989 with the name "Lower Saxony Environmental Foundation" in response to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster . In 2009 the "Lower Saxony Environmental Foundation" merged with the "Lower Saxony Lottery Foundation". The official name of the new foundation has since been "Lower Saxony Bingo Foundation for Environment and Development Cooperation".
In addition to mandatory state tasks, the foundation supports environmental and nature conservation projects as well as projects for the benefit of development cooperation and monument preservation . Funding is based on sustainability , voluntary work and active nature conservation .
In addition, the Emsfonds is managed as a special fund at the foundation. The Emsfonds was set up to improve the overall ecological situation in the Ems Dollart region .
The Foundation
- may exclusively and directly pursue charitable purposes within the meaning of the tax regulations,
- should be promotional and operational and
- is checked by the Lower Saxony State Audit Office and an auditor.
The main source of income are the surpluses from the “ Bingo! “-Environmental lottery and financial aid from the state of Lower Saxony. The draw is broadcast live from Hanover on NDR television on Sundays ; The lottery is taking part in the German lottery and tote block acceptance points in Lower Saxony , Hamburg , Schleswig-Holstein , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Bremen , Saxony-Anhalt and Rhineland-Palatinate . In the 2014 budget for the State of Lower Saxony, it was planned that the Lower Saxony Bingo Environmental Foundation would provide funding of € 4.5 million in addition to the € 7 million in income from the gaming tax of the Bingo! Environmental lottery and 4.14 percent of the 146 , Is to receive income from all state lotteries in excess of € 3 million. The foundation also solicits donations and donations .
Since 2017, Section 20 (2) of the Lower Saxony Gaming Act has stipulated:
- The Lower Saxony Bingo Foundation for Environment and Development Cooperation has to use the financial aid [of the state] [...] for the fulfillment of its statutory tasks. A maximum of 20 percent of this financial aid may be used for development cooperation purposes. The funds from the financial aid may only be used for corporations, institutions under public law and foundations based in Lower Saxony.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lower Saxony Bingo Environment Foundation: The foundation is celebrating its 25th anniversary ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . September 2014
- ↑ Lower Saxony Bingo Environmental Foundation: Background ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lower Saxony Bingo Environmental Foundation: Statutes of the Lower Saxony Bingo Foundation for Environment and Development Cooperation . July 7, 2015
- ^ Ministry of Finance Lower Saxony. Budget 2014. Section 15 . Hanover 2013, p. 27
