Lost ticket yields £9.4 million for good causes
Howard Lake | 6 January 2006 | News
Due to a jackpot winner not coming forward to claim their prize the National Lottery good causes are £9.4 million better off. Of this sum, Northern Ireland will get an extra £380,000.
On the day it was announced that London had won the bid to host the Olympics in 2012 a lotto ticket bought in Doncaster won a jackpot of £9,476,995. However, the jackpot was never claimed and expired on 2 January 2006 meaning the prize amount – plus interest, is given to the good causes fund.
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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.