# Thanks a billion

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/01/11/thanks-billion/
- Published: 1999-01-11T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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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