# Peter Wanless to be next CEO of the Big Lottery Fund

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/11/13/peter-wanless-be-next-ceo-big-lottery-fund/
- Published: 2007-11-13T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Peter Wanless will take over as Chief Executive of The Big Lottery Fund when Stephen
Dunmore steps down from the position at the end of January 2008. The Fund distributes
half of all National Lottery good cause funding across the UK, £630 million each
year.
Wanless joins the Fund from the Department for Children, Schools and Families
where he led the creation of a new Families Group. Before that he was Director of
School Performance and Reform.

 

 

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Commenting on his appointment, Wanless said: “BIG is a hugely important organisation
with the ability to transform communities and the lives of people in need, often
in the most imaginative ways that directly involve the people themselves. The chance
to work with third sector organisations to develop targeted solutions to local problems
is of particular interest to me.”

 

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