Big Lottery Fund 'should be exclusive to the sector'

By David Ainsworth, Third Sector Online, 18 November 2008

Community and voluntary organisations should be the only recipients of Big Lottery Fund money, charity umbrella groups have claimed.

In a consultation about future funding launched yesterday, the BLF is asking whether it should extend its current commitment to give 60 to 70 per cent of its money to the voluntary sector, which ends in 2012. In a response to the consultation called Big Thinking , four national umbrella...

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