# Online petition to prevent London Olympics grabbing Lottery funds

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/02/23/online-petition-prevent-london-olympics-grabbing-lottery-funds/
- Published: 2007-02-23T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

NCVO is supporting an online petition on the 10 Downing Street website asking the
Prime Minister to defend funding for local voluntary and community organisations
against the possibility of National Lottery funds being diverted to pay the £900
million shortfall in the cost of the 2012 London Olympics.
The petition by Helen
Anderson of South Witham Broadband has so far attracted 3,872 signatures, but has
some time to run: the deadline for support is 22 May 2007.

The petition argues that “the Government should fund the Olympics without depriving
the National Lottery distributors of funds needed to support local voluntary and
community sector activities.”

If the Government does use the good causes money to fund the 2012 Olympics, Ms Anderson
claims that “the Big Lottery Fund, Sport England, the Arts Council and the Heritage
Lottery Fund will all lose large amounts of money, much of which otherwise would
go to the local voluntary and community sector.”

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NCVO has promoted the petition as part of its Olympic Lottery Campaign, and recently
used its website’s front page to encourage people to sign it.

The defund funding petition has sadly not excited the levels of public interest 
and support achieved by the travel tax petition. When it closed this week, 1,791,942
people had registered their objection to road pricing and supported further expenditure
on improving roads.

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