Can the sector afford the Olympics?

By Mathew Little, Third Sector, 13 June 2007

The latest raid on lottery funds to pay for the London 2012 Olympics will cost voluntary groups £250m. Can the sector be certain that more cash intended for good causes won't be used to pay for the games?

If there are winners, there have to be losers. Safeguarding the voluntary sector's Big Lottery Fund grant stream from the ravenous demands of the 2012 Olympics meant that hungry eyes simply looked around for alternative prey. The deal struck in March, apparently after the intervention of Ed Miliband, minister for...

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