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Lottery figures: it’s been a rollover for good causes

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​Good cause cash increases on the back of rising Lotto ticket sales

Good causes benefited to the tune of £1.8 billion last year on the back of National Lottery sales – a 2.5% increase on the previous year.

It means the total to date raised by the weekly draws for good causes is just over £33bn since it first began in 1994.

The Lottery had a 7.5% increase in revenue from ticket sales, said Camelot UK, with National Lottery ticket purchases standing at £7.3bn for the year to March 2015, an increase of £546 million year on year since 2013.

Performance was partly driven by improving sales of its flagship Lotto game, which, after a decade of decline and a re-launch with a higher-priced minimum stake of £2, has started to grow again.

But its marketing efforts were strongest around instant play.

Seventy new scratchcards and online Instant Win games were launched, and the roll-out of 10,000 standalone terminals to satisfy “untapped demand” for Scratchcards was completed.

As a result, instant play games accounted for 86% of the total increase in sales last year.

Around 40% of all cash for good causes money goes to the Big Lottery Fund, the main distributor.

 

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bill nicol
over 8 years ago
Does anyone else notice a similarity between Roulette Machines in the bookies and scratch cards. The instant gratification and maybe even addictive qualities. Both are providing the largest growth in revenue for there suppliers. Similarly, we need to eat, but not all food is good for us.
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