{"id":1903,"date":"2010-10-21T15:41:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T15:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2010-10-21T15:41:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T15:41:36","slug":"penrose-restoring-%e2%80%98original-lotto-good-causes%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1903","title":{"rendered":"Penrose: Restoring \u2018original Lotto good causes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The reform of National Lottery good causes means that arts, sport and heritage will again get the share of total proceeds originally intended, amounting to an extra \u00a350 million each every year, Minister for Tourism and Heritage John Penrose announced on 15 October.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nA Statutory Instrument, laid before Parliament, means that \u2013 from 2012 \u2013 the original good causes will once again receive the 20 per cent share of the total, as set out when the Lottery was created in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>John Penrose said: \u201cThe National Lottery was created in 1994 and, since that time, around \u00a325 billion has been raised for good causes. \u00a0But the founding vision \u2013 that it should primarily benefit the arts, sport, heritage and the voluntary sector with funding for projects that would not otherwise get off the ground \u2013 got lost along the way. \u00a0Today I am putting that right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Penrose also pledged that funding for the voluntary and community sector \u2013 key players in the Government\u2019s plans to create a Big Society \u2013 will be protected. \u00a0It should, indeed, rise from current levels of around \u00a3564 million a year to more than \u00a3630 million a year by 2013, when the Olympic transfer comes to an end. \u00a0The greater shares going to the arts, sport and heritage will also, in many cases, directly benefit the VCS sector.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Penrose continued: \u201cThe voluntary and community sector is at the very heart of our mission to build a Big Society in which people have a greater role in the things that directly affect them, and gives everyone an opportunity to give something back for the benefit of all. \u00a0The National Lottery has a fine record of supporting VCS projects, and we are absolutely clear that this work should continue. \u00a0We will be directing the Big Lottery Fund to make sure that its future funding is focused very clearly on the VCS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DCMS News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culture.gov.uk\/news\/media_releases\/7489.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.culture.gov.uk\/news\/media_releases\/7489.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reform of National Lottery good causes means that arts, sport and heritage will again get the share of total proceeds originally intended, amounting to an extra \u00a350 million each every year, Minister for Tourism and Heritage John Penrose announced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1903\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}