# Charity service provider achieves External Lottery Manager status

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/04/19/charity-service-provider-achieves-external-lottery-manager-status/
- Published: 2005-04-19T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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UK lottery service provider, Sterling Management Centre in Cumbria, has been granted
External Lottery Manager status by the Gaming Board for Great Britain.
External 
Lottery Manager (ELM) registration enables the company to expand its range of services
and take a more central role in clients’ lottery related activities.

Managing Director, Richard Dixon said: “It has taken over a year of intense paperwork,
interviews and inspections to get here, but we are now looking forward to the future,
and working towards expanding the services we are able to offer to clients.”

Lotteries are popular forms of fundraising for many UK charities, both regional 
and national. For example, over a third of hospices operate a membership lottery
scheme.

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One main drawback, however, is the heavy administrative burden; hence the popularity
of outsourcing this activity to an external bureau. Sterling Management Centre has
provided such a lottery administration service for over 23 years.

[The Gaming Board for Great Britain](http://www.gbgb.org.uk) publish more information
on External Lottery Managers.

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