# Good causes receive record £1.8bn from National Lottery ticket sales

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/05/24/good-causes-receive-record-1-8bn-from-national-lottery/
- Published: 2023-05-24T08:05:00+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The 2022/23 financial year saw the National Lottery give £1.807 billion to good
causes from ticket sales – a record amount, Camelot has announced.**

This was £6.2 million more than in the previous year, and came as the National Lottery
annual sales grew to the second highest in its history to reach £8.19bn. This was
an increase of £99.6mn.

Fewer unclaimed prizes were handed over to good causes in 2022/23 but including 
these, a total of £1,877.3bn (an average of £36mn a week according to Camelot) was
generated for good causes over the year. This takes the total raised for National
Lottery projects since 1994 to more than £47bn, with more than 670,000 individual
grants made across the UK.

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Overall, £3.1bn was generated for society through good causes, lottery duty – which
reached almost £1 billion in 2022/23 – and retailer commission. 

[Camelot](https://www.camelotgroup.co.uk/) Co-CEOs, Clare Swindell and Neil Brocklehurst,
said: 

> “We’re delighted to have grown National Lottery sales year-on-year to their second
> highest on record, creating almost 400 millionaires in the process. And with £
> 36 million being raised each week for Good Cause projects around the UK and returns
> from ticket sales rising to their best-ever level, it’s clear that The National
> Lottery is delivering for players and society in what are very challenging times.
>  
> “We have more exciting plans lined up for the year ahead to ensure that The National
> Lottery remains front of mind and brings people together at key national moments.
> And, we also remain committed to delivering the National Lottery in a safe and
> socially-responsible way. All while we continue to support Allwyn UK on its transition
> plans to the fourth licence, from 1 February 2024.”

Allwyn takes over from Camelot in February 2024, when the current licence expires.
It said last year that it expects the money allocated to good causes to [more than double](https://fundraising.co.uk/2022/09/23/next-national-lottery-operator-expects-to-more-than-double-money-to-good-causes/)
under its stewardship.