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Lottery compensation scheme opens
Howard Lake | 9 September 2007 | News
The Irish Department of Finance is inviting applications for assistance to supplement the income of private charitable lotteries whose products are competing directly with the National Lottery in the Irish Republic. A public advertisement inviting applications has been placed in the press in both the North and South of Ireland.
The Charitable Lottery Fund was established in 1997 to provide funds from the proceeds of the National Lottery to help those charities running their own lotteries at the time. The scheme is only relevant to charities whose lottery began on or before 1st January 1997.
The Fund will consider lottery products in two specific areas as eligible for support –scratch cards and lines or other draws with a weekly or higher frequency operated on an annual basis.
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Applications will be evaluated on the basis of criteria recommended by an independent committee set up expressly for purposes of determining whether these applications meet eligibility criteria. The closing date for applications is 3rd October 2007 at noon.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.