# Lost ticket yields £9.4 million for good causes

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/01/06/lost-ticket-yields-94-million-good-causes/
- Published: 2006-01-06T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Due to a jackpot winner not coming forward to claim their prize the National Lottery
good causes are £9.4 million better off. Of this sum, Northern Ireland will get 
an extra £380,000.

On the day it was announced that London had won the bid to host the Olympics in
2012 a lotto ticket bought in Doncaster won a jackpot of £9,476,995. However, the
jackpot was never claimed and expired on 2 January 2006 meaning the prize amount–
plus interest, is given to the good causes fund.

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