Petition demands end to Olympic lottery raids

Third Sector Online, 22 October 2008

A petition to demand the Government diverts no more National Lottery money to pay for the 2012 Olympics has been started by a network of funding advisers.

The Government took £638m from lottery funds last year to pay for the rising costs of the games. George – the South West Funding Advisers Forum , a network for funding advisers in south-west England, has set up the petition on the Number 10 website to try to prevent further...

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