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Lottery funding supports vital work around the world, with even distant lands in need of assistance receiving crucial financial backing to support communities, families and children.
The Big Lottery Fund is one of the UK’s lotto money distribution bodies, operating to provide money to drive projects both in Great Britain and around the world.
One of its latest endeavours is to build a boat classroom in two of the most disadvantaged countries in the world -Bangladesh and Myanmar.
This week, life-saving health and education organisations in the south-Asian nations were granted over £1.2 million in funding from the Big Lottery Fund’s International Communities programme, which supports efforts to tackle poverty and deprivation.
In Bangladesh, WaterAid has been awarded £376,930 of lotto financing to provide access to fresh water, sanitation and hygiene services in the Khuna region, with this coastal area being particularly prone to storms and cyclones, cutting people off from fresh water and putting lives in danger.
Some 121,000 adults and children will benefit from the support of the Big Lottery Fund, while 12 cyclone shelters will be upgraded in the area to ensure women and disabled people are protected.
Furthermore, the Bangladeshi schoolchildren will benefit from two boat classrooms that are being built by Learning For Life UK with the help of £473,589 in lotto financing.
The vessels will be used by the 15 villages that are isolated by flooding during the nine-month monsoon season, providing lessons five days a week and library facilities.
Finally, Save the Children has been given £440,000 to improve maternal and newborn health services in 130 villages in Myanmar- formerly Burma.
The region has the highest mortality rates for under-fives in South East Asia and the lotto funding will be used to train 260 community health volunteers in nutrition, early illness detection and maternal and newborn care.
Also, medical supplies will be provided to support this work.
Big Lottery Fund chief executive officer Peter Wanless said: “The funding announced today will literally save lives by providing disadvantaged communities with vital health and education services that most people would simply take for granted.”
He added that thanks to the lottery money people from these countries “face a brighter future … and we are proud to be able to support them”.
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The Queen visits the Cutty Sark after lotto-funded restoration. Source BBC
Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh travelled to Greenwich this week to officially reopen the Cutty Sark after a £25 million lottery-funded reconstruction project.
The royals attended the ceremony on April 25th and now the world’s last surviving tea clipper can be visited by tourists again for the first time since 2006, when it was devastated by a fire.
Prince Philip, who has been President of the Cutty Sark since 1951, came to the site of the blaze in 2006 to assess the damage for himself and ensured his commitment to the trust was maintained after he gave up his association with several other organisations when he turned 90 last year.
The Heritage Lottery Fund provided the cash allowing this major conservation effort to be carried out, with this extraordinary achievement coming just two months after Greenwich was granted Royal Borough status ahead of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Lord Sterling, chairman of both the Royal Museums Greenwich and the Cutty Sark Trust said: “Our deep thanks [go] to the Heritage Lottery Fund who have supported the project and stood by Cutty Sark through its difficult times – particularly following the fire – and allocating £25million of public money raised through the National Lottery.”
The lotto funding organisation pumped money into a six-year project bringing the historic vessel – which is a key part of the Greenwich World Heritage Site – back to life.
Experts who restored the boat have admitted the initiative was complicated, but their efforts managed to rescue the Cutty Sark from collapse, while preserving as much of her original fabric from the period of her working life as possible.
The ship has now been elevated 11 feet into the air, revealing its keel, allowing visitors to view it for the first time from underneath.
She originally came to Greenwich in 1954 after first launching from Dumbarton in Scotland in 1869.
Trustees of the Cutty Sark and the Trustees of Royal Museums Greenwich were pleased to announce that following the completion of the vessel’s reconstruction, the ship will come under the new management of Royal Museums Greenwich.
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Even seasoned lotto players can get confused by what the extra numbers mean when lottery results are called and when they buy lottery tickets online.
Bonus and additional numbers add an extra dimension to the game, opening up channels to more prize categories and, in some cases, unlocking the jackpot itself and here’s a nutshell guide to how they work and what the differences are between the two.
Bonus numbers
Sometimes referred to as supplementary numbers, a bonus number allows lottery entrants to win secondary prizes.
Lotteries that use a bonus number in their gameplay include the Italian SuperEnalotto and the UK National Lottery and in both games the bonus number is drawn from the same drum as the main numbers.
In the Italian SuperEnalotto lottery, the bonus number is called the Jolly Ball. This extra number can unlock the second-tier prize allowing lucky players the chance to take home the next-biggest payout to the jackpot.
To do this, the entrant needs to have five of the main numbers plus the Jolly Ball when the results are announced.
The UK National Lottery works in much the same way, in that the bonus number – referred to in this game as the Bonus Ball – can lead to a secondary prize.
All players have to do is have five of the main numbers matching on their ticket, plus the Bonus Ball.
Additional numbers
Additional numbers sometimes get confused with bonus numbers, but they are a different thing entirely.
Additional numbers are selected by the lottery player in order to complete their entry, but are chosen from a different number range and are pulled from a separate drum when the results are announced.
Lotteries that feature an additional number in their play format include the USA Powerball and the Euro Jackpot and additional numbers are essential for winning the jackpot.
USA Powerball fans need to have all five main numbers plus the additional number – which in this lotto is called the Power Ball – correct to have all the winning lottery numbers for Powerball and take home the top prize.
In the Euro Jackpot, entrants must have all five main numbers and both of the two additional numbers that are vital to win the jackpot.
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A single mother who struggled to make ends meet can now sleep easy after months of panicking about paying the bills.
Julie Styles, who is 46 and from the Essex town of Stanford-Le-Hope, pocketed a life-changing £1.6 million playing the UK National Lottery, which will make all the difference to her and her two children 18-year-old Connor and Kelsie, who is 16.
Prior to landing the fortune, Ms Styles revealed that she had been having money problems.
Living on a single income during difficult economic times, the mother was suffering anxiety attacks about meeting her financial obligations and had increased her hours to try and bring in enough money to support her kids.
When she entered the twice-weekly lottery draw, she had the lotto ticket checked in a local supermarket where her sister works.
A shop assistant broke the news to her that she had won £5,000 and Ms Styles claims she was so gobsmacked at her good fortune that she left the shop, forgetting to pay for her groceries.
“When I thought I’d won £5,000, I was so shocked and delighted I simply took the ticket and walked out without paying for my shopping,” she gushed.
Little did she know that her lottery entry would prove even luckier.
The assistant manager told her sister of the incident and that the groceries still had not been paid for. Her sibling handed over Ms Styles’ phone number and the store boss asked her to come back in.
When she did, she met her sister who asked to see the lottery ticket and revealed to her that she had, in fact, landed a £1.6 million fortune.
UK lotto winner Julie Styles. Source PA
“I was in absolute shock. Like many people, money is really tight and I had just increased my hours at work to try to make ends meet,” Ms Styles admitted.
With her newfound wealth, the family have planned to buy a flash Audi TT car and enjoy a well-deserved holiday in the Caribbean, while they will still enjoy the budget break at Butlins holiday camp they booked earlier in the year.
Fans of online lottery games can play the UK National Lottery online on theLotter to be in with a chance of winning tonight’s (April 25th) £6.7 million jackpot.
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Lottery organisations around the world have slogans and some are so catchy they define the game perfectly.
So, here are some particularly memorable mottos from around the world and why they are particularly clever or funny.
What would you do?
The New Zealand Powerball lotto slogan invites fans – and those who are curious to play – to imagine what life would be like if they were lucky enough to take home the coveted jackpot.
It is a simple idea, but once that thought gets into a lottery player’s head, it’s hard to think about anything else.
Don’t live a little, live a Lotto!
The UK National Lottery changed its memorable ‘It could be you’ slogan to ‘Don’t live a little, live a Lotto’ in recent years in a huge publicity campaign starring Scottish comedian Billy Connolly.
As well as being memorable, the new legend is clever, using wordplay to emphasise that entering the twice-weekly draw is fun, encouraging people to buy a ticket and perhaps have the chance to take home a prize that could make all their dreams come true.
Having a ball!
Illinois’ Hoosier Lottery‘s slogan ‘Having a ball’ is another fun motto.
It is obviously playing with the word ‘ball’, in that the winner is decided when the numbers are read off the lottery balls that are selected at random in the drawing – which could lead to a lucky ticketholder taking home a life-changing prize.
You Never Know…
The New York Lotto uses this slogan in its successful advertising campaigns, tempting lottery fans to enter the draw because until they have bought a ticket, that may never know if their numbers would have been the ones that came up when the results are announced.
Playing with the idea that anybody could take home a top prize is a good marketing technique for encouraging lottery fans who are happy to take a chance and hope for the best.
Live a Lotto life!
Wordplay is a device used again by the Oz Lotto, which emphasises there is a lot of fun to be had playing the lottery, replacing the slang for ‘a lot of’ with the clever homophone ‘lotto‘.
The life a lotto winner can enjoy if their numbers come up could be beyond their wildest dreams, which is the notion this slogan succeeds in delivering.
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Lottery fans will know that odds are just as important when entering a draw as the lotto numbers they pick for their ticket.
So, which games offer the best odds of winning? This can be an easy thing for even beginner lotto players to figure out because it all comes down to having a basic knowledge of statistics.
If fewer numbers are called in a lottery results draw, then people have a bigger chance of winning big – to put it simply, a game with five main numbers offers better odds than one with seven main numbers.
Furthermore, smaller number ranges can also offer entrants better odds, because there are fewer variables in a field of 1-45 than 1-90.
One way players can improve their odds is by buying more lotto tickets with different number combinations, as this way they are increasing the likelihood of one of their numbers being drawn.
So, fans looking for games with the best odds may want to weigh up all of these factors, bringing numbers, number ranges and how many tickets they can afford into their decision-making process.
Fortunately, theLotter has already done the legwork compiling its table of theSmart lotteries, taking into account odds, the size of the prize and how much the lottery online payment is.
The UK National Lottery features on theSmart list, as it only requires the winner to have six winning numbers from 1-49, while its jackpots regularly climb to eight-figure sums.
Fans of this British draw can get involved online on theLotter tonight (April 25th), to be in with a chance of taking home the £6.7 million top prize.
The Florida Lotto also appears on the table, which has six main numbers and a number matrix of 1-53.
Finally, the Australia Saturday Lotto currently features as the top game to play on theSmart list – and it is easy to see why.
Players need to pick six numbers from a small matrix of just 1-45 and could win the AU$4 million prize if they get involved online in time for the April 28th draw.
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A pair of gardening enthusiasts from Yorkshire have gone public after collecting their £1.3 million UK National Lottery jackpot prize money.
Lance and Marie Cram – who are 48 and 46 respectively – revealed they bought a ticket for the British draw on a whim while out purchasing onion seeds to sow in their allotment.
Mr Cram – who is a plumber – said he and his green-fingered other half did not think twice about the ticket until after the draw took place last month.
He admitted that one day he had been sent home early from work due to the bad weather and decided to check the lottery results online before going to watch a rugby match with his friends to see his local team, Hull, play the Wakefield Wildcats.
When he had double checked the numbers, Mr Cram said he could not believe what had happened.
“I shouted ‘flippin’ ‘eck Marie’ and called her from the kitchen to take a look,” the plumber stated, adding that they then rang up the lottery headquarters to confirm their good fortune.
The Crams bided their time before claiming the money and waited for their eldest son to come back from university before telling both their children the good news.
After telling Ms Cram’s elderly parents about their jackpot win, the whole clan went to a local restaurant to toast their success.
The reality of the situation is still sinking in for the Crams, but they have made some plans.
Mr Cram commented: “The best thing for us is that is has bought us the luxury of being able to spend much more quality time together. We’re planning lots of long Sunday afternoons in our allotment and weekends away.”
His other half – who is a teaching assistant – wants to replace her old car and take the family to Florida on a holiday, while they also have the peace of mind of being able to support their sons financially.
Fans of the UK National Lottery could find they are just as lucky as the Crams on Saturday’s draw – and they can play online on theLotter.
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A pair of gardening enthusiasts from Yorkshire have gone public after collecting their £1.3 million UK National Lottery jackpot prize money.
Lance and Marie Cram – who are 48 and 46 respectively – revealed they bought a ticket for the British draw on a whim while out purchasing onion seeds to sow in their allotment.
Mr Cram – who is a plumber – said he and his green-fingered other half did not think twice about the ticket until after the draw took place last month.
He admitted that one day he had been sent home early from work due to the bad weather and decided to check the lottery results online before going to watch a rugby match with his friends to see his local team, Hull, play the Wakefield Wildcats.
When he had double checked the numbers, Mr Cram said he could not believe what had happened.
“I shouted ‘flippin’ ‘eck Marie’ and called her from the kitchen to take a look,” the plumber stated, adding that they then rang up the lottery headquarters to confirm their good fortune.
The Crams bided their time before claiming the money and waited for their eldest son to come back from university before telling both their children the good news.
After telling Ms Cram’s elderly parents about their jackpot win, the whole clan went to a local restaurant to toast their success.
The reality of the situation is still sinking in for the Crams, but they have made some plans.
Mr Cram commented: “The best thing for us is that is has bought us the luxury of being able to spend much more quality time together. We’re planning lots of long Sunday afternoons in our allotment and weekends away.”
His other half – who is a teaching assistant – wants to replace her old car and take the family to Florida on a holiday, while they also have the peace of mind of being able to support their sons financially.
Fans of the UK National Lottery could find they are just as lucky as the Crams on Saturday’s draw – and they can play online on theLotter.
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Princess Beatrice on the Olympic Run Source Reuters
The UK National Lotteryhas been doing much to raise money in order to deliver the London 2012 Olympic Games on time and to the standards that the world is expecting to see.
Its latest fund-generating event was a charity five-mile dash in the capital city, which was attended by a prominent member of the British royal family.
Princess Beatrice – who has also jogged the entire 26-mile London Marathon course – joined her fellow pavement-pounders and completed the National Lottery Olympic Run in just over 45 minutes.
The route the joggers took snaked through the new Olympic Park site around the Aquatics Centre, basketball arena and velodrome, which have been built using lotto financing from the UK game.
Some 5,000 people participated in the run after they were selected from random out of the 43,000 people who applied for a chance to be among the first to cross the famous finishing line, which will be watched by the world to see who out of the Olympic athletes will take home a gold medal in this summer’s major sporting event.
Princess Beatrice told the Daily Telegraph: “I am thrilled to be able to play my part in such a historic occasion and it is fantastic to see the incredible transformation that the Olympic Park has undergone.”
In addition to running the course, the royal family member – who is the queen’s granddaughter and fifth in line to the throne – sounded the horn signalling the beginning of the race.
Only one competitor could be the very first to cross the finishing line, however, with that honour going to Cheshire salesman Stuart Bloor, who is 24 years old and completed the course in his wheelchair in 23 minutes.
The Spina Bifida sufferer, who lost a leg in 2007, said: “It feels brilliant – I never thought I would be on the Olympic track, let alone cross the line first.”
Up to £2.2 billion is being contributed by the UKNational Lottery towards funding the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, while some £310 million in lotto financing is also going to support 1,200 potential Team GB and Parlympic GB athletes.
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The 2012 Olympics and Paralympics in Londonare two of this year’s biggest international events, but the Games could not go ahead if it was not for the lotto funding they rely on.
Occasions such as these need vast amounts of money for everything from new venues and paying for the staff to help run the show to advertising – and much of the finances are coming from the Olympic Lottery Distributor, which uses cash from the UK National Lottery.
By the time the Olympics begins, the Olympic Lottery Distributor will have had £1.8 billion made available to it, with this funding going towards ensuring the successful delivery of the London 2012 Olympic Games and the Paralympics.
The London 2012 Olympic Stadium
Furthermore, the cash is helping to regenerate the formerly run-down Lower Lea Valley area of London- the once deprived borough that was chosen as the location of the upcoming sporting event.
The district will not be abandoned after the Olympics and Paralympics are over, as the Olympic Lottery Distributor will work in conjunction with the government in providing the money to redevelop the neighbourhood.
With the Olympics just months away, the lotto funding organisation has granted money to the sporting facilities in London for the Games and other training facilities across the UK, including the Olympic Stadium, the Velodrome, the Aquatics Centre and the Copper Box.
Outside of the capital, money has gone towards enhancements to venues in Weymouth and Portland, the Hadleigh Farm mountain bike course and the Lea Valley White Water Canoe Centre.
The Games presents a big tourism opportunity for the UK and to capitalise on this, the Olympic Lottery Distribution has contributed some £16.6 million to support the Cultural Olympiad and the London 2012 Festival.
This includes the World Shakespeare Festival – which will feature performances atLondon’s Globe Theatre and amateur shows by 260 companies from Penzance to the Isle of Skye – the River of Music festival and the arts and disability event Unlimited.
In addition, £66 million has been put towards supporting the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games and £3.4 million has gone to fund live viewing screens, allowing people throughout the UK to watch the athletics competitions live in towns and cities across the country.
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After losing his job last year, Lance Cram thought he was the unluckiest man in the UK, but 12 months on he is a millionaire.
The 48-year-old from Hessle is currently celebrating his good fortune with his wife Marie, as the couple have won £1.3 million playing the UK National Lottery, the Hull Daily Mail reports.
A year ago, Mr Cram did not know where his next pay cheque would be coming from and now he and his other half have enough to enjoy a life of luxury, after living hand-to-mouth for so long.
Lottery winners Lance and Marie Cram. Source MSN
One of the things the professional pipe fitter is most pleased about is that he can ensure his two sons leave university without any debts, while the financial security the jackpot has given them is worth more than its weight in gold.
Mr Cram was dumbfounded when he checked the results of the National Lottery on March 3rd.
“We’d missed the draw the night before so we checked on the computer the next day. When I saw the numbers, I shouted [to] Marie and said ‘You’d better come check this’,” he revealed.
“We called Camelot straight away – my hands were shaking when I was on the phone,” the millionaire added.
Until their win was verified, the couple – who will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary this year – went on as normal, having Sunday lunch and watching the football.
They then told their sons and parents when the good news was confirmed by lottery officials.
Mr Cram said he was worried about telling his in-laws because they are very elderly and did not want to risk them having a heart attack.
“Everyone has been so pleased for us. We told our friends on Wednesday night because we wanted them to know before they read it in the paper,” he gushed.
Ms Cram – who is a primary school teacher – said her family’s newfound wealth will not prompt her to quit her job just yet and noted they would not be leaving their three-bedroom house for a luxury mansion.
What they will do, however, is go on holiday to Florida, watch the rugby in Australia and perhaps get a new car.
The next UK National Lottery draw will take place on Wednesday (March 21st) and players can enter the game on theLotter.
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Many lottery fans may have a bank of lucky numbers that they cannot bear to enter a draw without, but one fortunate great-grandfather has proved that sometimes changing these digits can pay dividends.
George Keates – a 77-year-old pensioner from Southport- revealed that his wife Beryl asked him to buy some lottery tickets on a whim and gave him £5 to go to the shop and purchase the slips.
The couple, who only enter draws occasionally, usually use their lucky numbers but Mr Keates admitted that when he arrived at the store he had forgotten the digits and opted instead to use a Quick Pick lucky dip number generator.
This resulted in the Keates’ winning a massive £3.5 million UK National Lottery fortune last Saturday (March 3rd).
However, shortly before they checked their lottery ticket, the pair had just returned from seeing the doctor about Mrs Keates’ blood pressure, so when her husband looked up the winning numbers, his first though was one of terror that breaking the news to his wife would give her a heart attack.
When Mr Keates broke the news to his other half “she was in a state of collapse”, he admitted.
“She was on the stairs lying down and with her blood pressure I was telling her to take deep breaths and calm down,” the pensioner revealed.
But what will the Keates’ do with their winnings? Apparently a trip toAustraliais on the cards for the couple – who have been married for 56 years – for Mrs Keates to visit an old school friend.
“I have not seen her for a few years. When she came over last she had a stroke so she is in a home now. The last time I wrote, I told her that if I won any money on the lottery or bingo I would go and see her,” Mrs Keates said.
The pair say they have worked hard all their lives to make ends meet and believe this lotto win is the stroke of good luck they have been waiting for.
Lottery fans who want to play the UK National Lottery can do so this Saturday (March 10th) to be in with a chance of winning £4.2 million.
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A messy teenager has become £50,000 wealthier after he found a winning lottery ticket in his bedroom.
Ryan Kitching – who is 19 years old and works at the fish counter of a local supermarket – was told by his mother that he had to clean up his bedroom at their Penicuik home in Midlothian, Scotland.
While begrudgingly putting washing in the hamper and collecting dirty plates and cups, the lucky lad found a UK National Lottery ticket under his bed from a draw on February 8th.
Rather than tossing the slip straight in the wastepaper basket, Mr Kitching decided to check the digits at the shop where he works and realised to his dismay that he had five main numbers and one of the bonus balls.
The supermarket worker has thanked Susan, his mother, for putting up with his untidy ways and for encouraging him to clean up his room that day, because without her nagging his £52,981-winning ticket may never have seen the light of day.
Another situation that may have occurred is that the teenager came across the lottery ticket too late to collect the payout – a scenario that can be avoided by playing the lottery online on theLotter, which alerts people by text or email if they have struck lucky.
Lotto winner Ryan Kitching. Source SWNS
Mr Kitching is still unsure what he wants to do with his National Lottery prize but says he has been enjoying a lot of nights on the tiles with his friends and is considering taking some friends away with him for a week of partying in Magaluf.
However, his father has suggested he uses the money responsibly by using it for putting a deposit down on a property, but the lottery winner has said he is reluctant to move out of his parents’ house because he likes having his dinner cooked for him.
The lottery win also offers some additional comfort to Mr Kitching, as he was recently dumped by his girlfriend.
“She’ll be sad she finished with me now,” he said.
The next UK National Lottery draw is scheduled for tomorrow (March 7th) and entrants could be in with a chance of winning £2.2 million if they get all their numbers right.
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Lotteries are known for donating essential finances to support good causes and in the UK, the Big Lottery Fund (BLF) manages essential donations from the UK lotto organisation Camelot to help drive community and heritage projects.
This week, the BLF, announced that it is giving £4 million to nine neighbourhoods in Scotland to aid young people who look after disabled family members and vulnerable families in desperate need of extra assistance and resources.
One of the communities set to benefit from this significant cash injection is the Helensburgh and Lomond area of Argyll and Bute.
Some 150 young carers of the locality will be able to take advantage of the expertise of a volunteer mentor, in addition to respite breaks to help them cope better with their responsibilities.
The scheme is being funded using a £389,727 lottery award from the BLF which will see registered professionals working with youngsters such as Daniel MacTaggart, who is 18.
“I am overjoyed that the funding for young carers has been awarded because of the many benefits it will bring young carers like me in the Helensburgh and Lomond area,” the teenager stated.
Another project receiving vital finances is the EA Positive Play project run by East Ayrshire Council, which will use its £551,200 in lottery funding to develop closer family relations between children and parents in deprived communities.
Furthermore, Clydebank Women’s Aid will be given £282,022 from the BLF to help it in its essential work supporting children and young people who have been affected by domestic abuse.
The scheme will use its lotto financing to address matters such as school attendance and lack of confidence by providing youths with social and secure environments.
Director of the BLF’s Scotland arm Jackie Kileen stated that the finances allocated this week will be gong to families who need it most.
“For young carers like Daniel the funding will provide the respite which is often so desperately needed whilst in a full time caring role. It will provide a focus for improving parent and child relationships and will support the forgotten children and young people,” she remarked.
Since 2004, the BLF has distributed more than £4.4 billion in lotto finances across the UK for projects supporting health, education, charities and the environment and continues to break funding records annually.
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New figures released by the UK National Lottery organisation Camelot have revealed that 2011 was a record-breaking year for the British game.
According to a report on the 12-month period, construction workers scooped the most prizes and by chance more men went home with payouts than their female counterparts.
The end of year review shows that the UK National Lottery – which is in its 17th year – created 229 millionaires between January and December 2011, which is 71 more millionaires compared to 2010.
Of the professionals who won jackpots and other coveted prizes, builders, administrators and transport drivers made up the biggest number of those who struck lucky, while people born under the Taurus sign of the zodiac also enjoyed a prosperous year.
Interestingly, more than one-third (34 per cent) of people whose fortunes came in last year playing the UK National Lottery admitted that they had seen a sign to encourage them to use their lucky numbers or try their chances with a Quick Pick random number selector.
One of the reasons why 2011 was such a record-smashing year for the UK National Lottery is thanks to the EuroMillions – which is coordinated via Camelot in the UK.
In July, Christine and Colin Weir from Largs in Scotland scooped a life-changing jackpot of €185 million playing the game.
Since the UK National Lottery was launched in 1994, it has made 2,750 millionaires and a spokesperson for the organisation stated that many of the country’s biggest prize winners have been so generous with their payouts they have made additional millionaires of loved ones by giving them enormous cash gifts.
“There have been some huge prizes paid out during the last 12 months. This has been an extraordinary year for our players with so many new millionaires and multi-millionaires created,” the lottery representative commented.
Fans of playing online lotto and the UK National Lottery can enter the next draw on theLotter.
Wednesday’s (February 15th) top prize has been reset to an estimated jackpot of £2.2 million after a lucky ticketholder took home a £4.5 million jumbo payout on Saturday (February 11th).
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UK lotto winners Paul and Marie Kibler
Some lottery winners believe their good fortune is down to lucky numbers or good omens, while others say their windfall was claimed purely out of chance – but one British couple are certain their positive frame of mind is what led them to taking home a £2 million top prize.
Paul Kibler and his wife Marie are celebrating their enormous payout after choosing all the correct numbers when playing UKNational Lottery last Wednesday (February 1st).
The couple – who are from Sutton Coldfield in theWest Midlands- think their attitude about looking on the bright side of life is why they are now fabulously wealthy.
Mrs Kibler, who is 64, said: “I always remember a lady saying to me, think lucky and you will be lucky.”
“That and trying to be more positive to deal with stress and worry has led me to make a real effort to look on the bright side,” she admitted.
On the night of the draw, Mr Kibler revealed he was watching the news and waiting for the National Lottery numbers to come up, while his other half was getting to go to bed.
She shouted downstairs to her husband wishing him luck and shortly afterwards he came into the bedroom clutching the lottery ticket.
Mr Kibler said he thought he had all six numbers but was not certain, so the pair went online to use a lottery results checker when it dawned on them they had landed a fortune.
Mrs Kibler revealed that when they called the UKlottery headquarters Camelot the following morning and it was confirmed they would be taking home more than £2 million, she cried.
She revealed the fortune will allow her to retire early from her job as a medical secretary, while her husband is looking forward to returning to work following absence due to illness.
New cars are also on the Kiblers’ shopping list, withy the couple favouring Mercedes models.
Finally, both want to take Mr Kibler’s father on a cruise as a token of thanks, because on the night they received confirmation from Camelot, they all went out for dinner together, but neither of the lucky lottery winners had brought any money with them – forcing Kibler senior to pay the bill.
Lottery fans can play the UK National Lottery at theLotter on Saturday to be in with a chance of winning £4.1 million.
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For some lottery fans it may be the excitement of getting involved in a national or international game, but for the majority the motivation for playing the lotto is down to the massive jackpots up for grabs.
This is according to professor Mark Griffiths, research director at Nottingham Trent University, who told the Metro that he believes it is totally understandable why draws such as the EuroMillions, UK National Lottery and Italian SuperEnalotto are so popular, because for a relatively small amount of money entrants can have a chance of winning a life-changing windfall.
The expert added these draws are also a good way of bringing people together, indeed, the largest jackpots are always a topic for discussion in the workplace and at home and are heavily featured in the media.
Professor Griffiths added that many adults like the fact that while they have their fun entering draws, there is some satisfaction in the knowledge there is a generous proportion of lottery proceeds going to good causes, supporting local communities and cultural projects.
However, the top prizes are undoubtedly the main reason why people try their luck at their favourite games.
“What we are talking about are life-changing amounts of money. The maximum jackpot you can win is the major motivating factor for why people play lotteries,” he remarked.
He added the excitement of winning a prize – not matter what size – adds to the fun of playing the lotto, so it is not all about the top payouts when it comes to explaining why people love entering draws all over the world.
In the UK, seven in ten adults regularly get involved in national and global lotteries and some 229 millionaires were created in 2011 alone thanks to the UK National Lottery and EuroMillions, winning a total of £720 million between them.
Furthermore, more than £30 million is generated each week for good causes.
Fans of the UK National Lottery can enter their lucky numbers in time for tonight’s (February 1st) draw, which is offering a jackpot worth £2.2 million if a player gets all six of their numbers correct.
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For some, a huge lottery windfall may change the course their life takes, but one British teenager has revealed her luck playing UK National Lottery will not prompt her to quit her two jobs.
According to the Daily Mail, Eloise Hutchinson – who is 19 and lives in Colchester- landed an enormous £1.3 million prize playing the Lotto on New Year’s Eve (December 31st).
National Lottery Eloise Hutchinson
She bought the lottery ticket at the supermarket where she works part time and got her boyfriend to check the numbers, because she originally thought she only had four of the seven necessary to win the top prize.
Ms Hutchinson has taken managing her new wealth in her stride and told the press that she intends to carry on in her current job, while also running a mobile beauty therapy business – an enterprise she set up in 2011 with help from the Prince’s Trust youth funding scheme.
The winner is one of three lottery ticket holders to claim a jackpot prize that night, however her fellow millionaires have not decided to go public.
Even the people around Ms Hutchinson are keeping their feet firmly on the ground, with her boyfriend David Heard, 25, even paying for the celebratory meal they enjoyed to fete her newfound wealth.
Naturally, the lucky teen has gone out to enjoy a little retail therapy with her new flexible finances and admits she bought herself an iPad last week and then went shopping for some new clothes, but remains firm that the majority of the cash will be used to ensure she has a comfortable future.
Ms Hutchinson says the next thing she will splash out on is a holiday to Jamaica and perhaps moving in with her boyfriend, but a flash set of wheels are not a priority, with the winner claiming she only wants to replace her Ford Fiesta with a newer model.
Lottery fans may share the lucky teen’s plans for her new fortune and they too could win an enormous cash prize if they pick a set of winning numbers when they enter the next UK National Lottery draw, which is scheduled for tomorrow night (January 11th), with an estimated jackpot worth £2.2 million.
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The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Big Lottery Fund (Big) have announced they will be putting £19 million in lotto funding forward to help restore public parks in the UK.
Both organisations have earmarked the cash to help get green spaces in Brighton, Crawley, Goole and Manchester back to looking their best for local residents and visitors in the near future.
Chief executive of HLF Carole Soutar said lottery officials and her colleagues are working alongside local authorities and communities to make sure public parks do not lose out on this kind of investment.
“Our parks are invaluable to people’s well being and an integral part of local communities,” she stated, adding that ensuring they are well maintained – and that the money to do this is available – is essential to safeguarding their future as features for adults and children to enjoy in their home town.
One of the spaces receiving the lottery funding treatment is Alexandra Park in Manchester, which is being given a £2.2 million grant to restore its 19th-century pavilion and set up a learning centre for environmental projects and other activities.
The Heritage Lottery Fund is the UK’s largest dedicated financier of historical, conservation and restorative ventures, putting forward around £255 million annually towards such undertakings.
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The UK is certainly a country that takes its lottery playing seriously, with nearly one-third of lotto fans admitting they have dreams that their lives will improve when their luck comes in.
According to the Daily Telegraph, a survey by YouGov for the nation’s Financial Planning Week found 29 per cent of Brits think the lotto represents their best hope of a better bank balance.
Indeed, playing British lottery draws has grown in popularity this year, with the UK National Lottery operator Camelot paying out record amounts to prize winners and charities in the six months leading up to September 2011.
The organisation states winnings hit £1.7 billion, which is up £300 million compared to the same time in 2010.
Chief executive of Camelot Dianne Thompson is pleased demand for the lottery in the UK is so high, because it means more proceeds can go to charity.
She said the games it runs are responsible for “raising a record amount for the good causes and paying out record sums in prize money to our players, which is what the National Lottery is all about”.
Lotto fans who like to buy lottery tickets online can explore British lotteries such as the UK National Lottery at theLotter.
The next draw takes place tomorrow (November 30th) and the jackpot is estimated to reach £2.2 million.
