One of the most vexing issues on the voluntary sector landscape right now is the future of the National Lottery. The government wants to reduce the amount of good causes money awarded by the Big Lottery Fund from 50 per cent to 40 per cent. Considering that the BLF has given £3.6bn to mainly charitable… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Big Lottery Fund
The ideology behind changes to National Lottery funding is sound but the logic isn’t
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport confirmed yesterday what the sector has been expecting for a while: the Big Lottery Fund’s share of National Lottery good cause money will be cut from 50 per cent to 40 per cent and arts, sports and heritage groups will increase their share to 60 per cent. The… Read more »
Funding the Future conference: policy was thin on the ground as Nick Hurd recycled his jokes
Shadow charities minister Nick Hurd announced to delegates at the Funding the Future conference yesterday that he was going to tell them something they might know already. “There’s going to be a general election soon.” It was not the first time he’d made the joke. He said it last week at an Institute of Fundraising conference,… Read more »
A New Year wish for the social investment bank
So this is Christmas. And with another year over and a new one not yet begun, the pre-Budget report tells of untold riches in dormant accounts to be used to fund a social investment wholesale bank and projects for young people. The latter will be routed through the Big Lottery Fund. I just hope –… Read more »