Thanks a billion

Howard Lake | 11 January 1999 | News

The National Lottery Charities Board (NLCB) has now made grants to charities and voluntary groups totalling £1 billion since its first grant in 1995.

The National Lottery Charities Board (NLCB) has now made grants to charities and voluntary groups totalling £1 billion since its first grant in 1995. A grant of £359,063 to the Children’s Discovery Centre in East London took the Board to the billion total. The NLCB is now the UK’s largest general purpose grant-maker, and has awarded more than 18,000 grants to voluntary organisations.

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.