# Lottery compensation scheme opens

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/09/09/lottery-compensation-scheme-opens/
- Published: 2007-09-09T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

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.

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