# National Lottery Commission chairman resigns

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2000/10/04/national-lottery-commission-chairman-resigns/
- Published: 2000-10-04T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Dame Helena Shovelton, chairman of the National Lottery Commission, has resigned,
causing yet more concern about the award of the National Lottery licence. If there
is any hiatus when the next licence begins in October 2001 charities could in theory
start to miss out on an estimated £4 million per day in Lottery funding.

Read Lottery chief quits over bids fiasco by Rebecca Alison and David Teather at
The Guardian.

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