# Big Lottery Fund launches today

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/05/31/big-lottery-fund-launches-today/
- Published: 2004-05-31T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Community Fund and the New Opportunities Fund have merged to become the Big
Lottery Fund.**

The new fund is responsible for distributing more than half of all lottery good 
cause funding.

During the summer of 2004, the Big Lottery Fund will ask the public to help determine
its priorities, how it will make grants, what types of programmes it will support
and how it can work to deliver even more effective and efficient Lottery funding.

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