Olympic raids prompt cuts in sector's lottery programmes

By John Plummer, Third Sector, 20 August 2008

The Big Lottery Fund has made further revisions to the amount of money it will award to the voluntary sector in the coming year.

The fund announced last week that it had reduced the value of the Young People's Fund 2 from £76m to £68m and the Research Programme, which awards grants for social and medical research, from £25m to £20m. The combined £13m reduction follows the government's £638m raids on lottery funds last...

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