What impact has this raid had?

The £425m taken by the Government from the Big Lottery Fund to finance the Olympics would have:*

• funded at least 10,000 charities
• enabled the formation of approximately 1300 new charities
• enabled approximately 4000 charities to continue operating
• helped over 8 million people

Further:

• Nearly 80% of the £425m would have been awarded to small and micro organisations (income less than £10,000 a year), in the form of small grants
• £425m also works out to approximately £650,000 foregone from every MP’s constituency in the country.

These figures paint one kind of picture, but real stories can illustrate the impact even better.

Did you have a good project that was eligible for a Big Lottery Fund grant but you were turned down? Do you just have a great project which has been supported by Big? We need to hear your story!

Email us at biglotteryrefund@dsc.org.uk

(calculations based on data taken from these sources: Third Sector Research Centre: ‘Wherever there is money there is influence’: exploring BIG’s impact on the third sector, 2012; Big Lottery Fund: Annual Report and Accounts 2010/11; Charity Commission, cited in NCVO UK Civil Society Almanac, 2012; CAF Charity Trends)