How the 2012 Olympics continue to eat into the sector's lottery funding

By Helen Warrell, Third Sector, 5 December 2007

Charities and voluntary groups across England are likely to lose as much as £200m in grants from the Big Lottery Fund as a result of players switching from mainstream lottery games to special Olympics games designed to fund London 2012.

Third Sector has established the full cost to charities for the first time by using information supplied by the Liberal Democrats, which isolates the effect of game-switching for each lottery distributor. The effect of this switching, or 'cannibalisation', is calculated as a percentage of the £750m of Olympics funding that...

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