The National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) has suggested that the language underpinning its good cause funding remit should be modernised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Civil Society<\/u><\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n NLCF said the current statutory wording \u2013 \u2018charitable or connected with health, education or the environment\u2019\u2026 could be updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026 \u2018The commonly used description of this good cause as \u2018charity\u2019 no longer adequately reflects either the organisations and communities we support or the role the fund plays\u2026 We believe there is a case for modernising the language to recognise \u2018community\u2019 explicitly within the statutory description of National Lottery good causes. This would better reflect the fund\u2019s purpose today: strengthening communities, supporting social infrastructure and enabling people to act together on the issues that matter to them, while preserving the independence of our existing remit.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n NLCF added that an updated description would also reflect the organisation\u2019s evolution from its last major review in 2003\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n