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The definitive guide to Lottery Funding in the UK
Lottery Monitor is the UK's leading independent source of information on lottery funding issues and the only newsletter of its kind. Editorial covers strategies, policy and funding trends.
Current subscribers include charities, regeneration partnerships, government agencies and local authorities. Readers regard Lottery Monitor as a main forum for discussion, analysis and advice in this rapidly developing and complex area. You can read some of their comments
further down.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest in funding programmes and initiatives
- Get access to lottery statistics and data to improve your funding success
- Identify development opportunities for you and your team
- Learn from the success and failure of other organisations
- Save time by getting all the information you need in one publication
Published ten times a year, Lottery Monitor provides subscribers with fast, accurate up-to-date information, with clear advice to guide readers through the lottery maze.
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Subjects covered in Lottery Monitor include:
Change and opportunity
Money for good causes touches almost every aspect of life. The Review of Lottery Funding is creating changes that everyone involved must keep up with as it tries to increase effectiveness. Each issue of Lottery Monitor examines crucial areas such as: the funding of cold spots to ensure a more equitable distribution; core costs; how smaller groups can access funding; micro-grants; how boards can spend more time helping with individual projects; sustainability; one-stop funding shops; additionality; the use of endowment funds; outcomes-based grant-giving; evaluation; strategic partnerships; the effect of political intervention.
Lottery award league tables
Lottery sales may be on their way down, but more grants were made last year than at any time since the lottery began in 1995. Our comprehensive annual league tables give a district-level local authority breakdown of lottery awards made, showing shifts in distribution. This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date set of figures available and you won't find anything that betters it. You'll find, for example, that the London Borough of Camden is, in effect, top of the table with £865 of lottery funding per person, while bottom-placed Rochford in Essex has had less than £14.
Business planning
Whether your project is a multi-million pound visitor centre or a community café, a business plan is an essential component of fund raising. Our four experts nominate useful resources to help you create a winning plan, including the free guide 'Business Plans, helping your application'.
Strategic partnerships
Unless yours is a small project, you are unlikely to get lottery funding these days unless you can demonstrate you are in partnership. We show how this works with our report on a local strategic partnership with a successful formula for winning lottery funding.
Funding core costs
To survive and remain effective, all organisations must fund the core costs integral to the delivery of services and projects. We examine groundbreaking work on defining and apportioning core costs, which uses a step-by-step template to help third-sector organisations to prepare more effective funding applications.
Increase in small awards
The balance of funding is moving slowly but surely towards a greater emphasis on small awards. After the success of Awards for All in handing out grants up to £5,000, the government is looking at raising the ceiling for this fast-track, easy-application scheme to £10,000 or more.
Community Fund and New Opportunities Fund
The most sensitive issue on the lottery reform agenda raises crucial questions about the independence and role of any new distributor formed out of a merger of CF and NOF. We examine the key questions, air the debate, and dispassionately scrutinise the government's proposals for change. Grants programmes wall-chart Our exclusive
Grants Programmes wall-chart
helps you get maximum benefit from the Lottery, with an at-a-glance schedule of the current and forthcoming awards programmes. Published twice a year, separate listings show programme titles and descriptions, eligibility details, contact telephone numbers and website addresses.
Cash mountain
The £3.5bn lottery cash mountain has become as enduring a media myth as the EEC's butter mountain was in the seventies. Our investigation, arms readers with up-to-date, comprehensive knowledge on this highprofile problem. Our analysis highlights government recommendations for best practice in handling lottery funds, and we show clearly which boards are the main culprits by hanging on to their money for far too long.
Fair funding league tables
The government has insisted that the lottery boards use their funds to help correct disadvantage and social exclusion in society. What's the reality? Our unique annual analysis of lottery funding versus deprivation levels reveals the extent to which the distributors are also successful redistributors.
Official forecasts
We quantify the downward trend for good causes income with our tables, which track the regular government forecasts of lottery income up to 2009.
Project giveaways
We delve deep into the official lottery database to reveal the kinds of facts that you simply cannot find from any other source. When the media row broke out last autumn about lottery spending on asylum-seekers, our readers had the accurate figures to hand. They also know, for instance, that up to December 2001, churches have received £103m and football £203m from lottery funding. £12m has been spent on wheelchairs, and £43m on cricket; film has benefited by £143m and public gardens by £183m.
Sustainability and failing capital projects
Major visitor attractions can fail spectacularly, as Sheffield's National Centre for Popular Music and the Millennium Dome have shown. We investigate claims that the Millennium Commission did not screen business plans adequately – and encouraged risky and politically motivated projects. But there are lessons to be learnt from many other attractions whose initial business plans were based on wildly optimistic assumptions. Learn how the International Centre for Life dealt with declining income by introducing four new revenue streams producing £1m a year.
Inside UnLtd
Now that the long-delayed successor to Millennium Awards is open for business, we look at how the new fund works. Using its endowment of £100m, UnLtd will make awards to individual social entrepreneurs in grants of £500 to £5,000. We will be watching as it develops its brief to lend practical support to the growing movement of community social entrepreneurs.
Tracking changes
Catch an early glimpse of how funding programmes and indeed funders themselves are restructured and priorities changed. Our advance-notice briefings keep you informed of changes planned by the boards and the effect this has on funding: last year it was the Arts Council of England – this year it's Sports England.
Football Foundation
A look at the role of the Football Foundation and its distribution of funds to grass-roots amateur football. Discover where else you can go to finance new kit, goalposts, turf, floodlighting and stadiums.
The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
A ‘glitzy, ritzy organisation’. But to date there has been little sign of any output. We report on the growing clamour of criticism from parliament and consider whether the politicians are right to be worried.
"Useful benchmarking data that helps take the chance out of bids for lottery funding." J.P. Yorkshire
"Lottery Monitor has the news before the regional lottery offices" A.M.H. Hampshire
"It understands the issues and isn't afraid to tackle them - it asks the questions we all want answered"
R.P.H. Scotland
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Free Regional Lottery Funding Profile
New subscribers receive a Regional Lottery Funding Profile worth £75, with statistics, tables, benchmarks and complete grant lists awarded by each distribution board in their region over the last eight years of the National Lottery.
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As a subscriber, you qualify for valuable conference discounts. Our conferences are both national and regional, and are now firmly established as the leading forum for people involved at whatever level in the lottery. You’ll hear about future lottery strategies, current funding programmes, what benefits lottery funds can have in your area, and meet people involved in giving out and applying for lottery funds.
To
begin a trial subscription to Lottery Monitor on a no-obligation,
risk-free basis, complete this form
today. We will send you the current issue, together with an invoice. If
you do not wish to continue your subscription, simply return the invoice
marking it as cancelled, and you will owe nothing. Alternatively, you can
start your trial by phoning our order line on 020 7251 6542
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