# Institute of Fundraising aims to protect charities' revenue from lotteries

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/09/18/institute-fundraising-aims-protect-charities039-revenue-lotteries/
- Published: 2002-09-18T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Institute of Fundraising and Charity Law Association are working to secure revenue
from charity lotteries and lottery-type promotions.
The organisations have submitted
a joint response to the Government Consultation on the law on prize competitions.
They believe that the current and longstanding public policy that lotteries must
benefit good causes is in jeopardy because of proposed changes to prize competition
laws.

The submission calls calls for the definitions of ‘lotteries’ (games determined 
by chance) and ‘prize competitions’ (games involving skill) to be amplified to deal
with twenty-first century developments such as premium-rate lines, text messages
and the Internet and to ensure that charities continue to benefit from the proceeds
of lotteries.

Andrew Watt, Head of Policy at the Institute of Fundraising said, “Any distinction
between the two activities must be effectively regulated and enforced and there 
must be parity in regulation.”

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