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Museums face post-Lottery funding difficulties

Howard Lake

Howard Lake | 19 March 2001 | News

The National Lottery might have funded major expansions for museums but they now face an additional £29m a year bill for increased costs. This bill is unsustainable, according to Cultural Trends, published by the Policy Studies Institute, and some museums will close.

Read Fear for museums as lottery ‘golden age’ ends by Maev Kennedy at SocietyGuardian.

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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.

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