Name your lottery good cause
The government has asked the public to help shape National Lottery Good Causes funding by nominating their own good causes.
With a 12-week envelope anyone can submit evidence to National Lottery Good Causes: Fund What Matters to You, the first chance for the public to contribute ideas n more than 20 years.
Since the Nationkal Lottery began in 1994 it has contributed £53bn to good causes, such as restoring the Flying Scoitsman locomotive, funding the making of the film Billy Elliott, and supporting our Paralympics teams.
“The National Lottery is played by millions of people every single week. It is not just public money, it is literally the public’s money and they must be in the driving seat of how it is spent” said culture secretary Lisa Nandy (pictured).“But for two decades no government has asked people how they want their money to be spent. Decisions are made hundreds of miles from communities who know best and favour larger organisations who can meet the needs of the system, rather than bending the system to work for the small, grassroots organisations who are the lifeblood of our communities.
“This government is determined that will change. With this consultation we are bringing people back into the conversation. They will write the next chapter in the story of the National Lottery and of our country.”
The review will explore where future investment can have the greatest impact and how funding can become more accessible to communities across the UK, served by 12 National Lottery distributor bodies, across the arts, heritage, sport, and communities. The latest figures from 2025 show that the National Lottery generated over £8 billion in total revenue from ticket sales, of which good cause funding equated to at least £1.7 billion.