Where The Health Lottery money goes

Since the launch of The Health Lottery in 2011, over £133 million has been raised for good causes across Great Britain, but where exactly does that money go?

How Health Lottery funding works

For every £1 spent on a Health Lottery game, 20p goes straight to funding health-related projects across Britain.

Rather than a national lottery, this one operates across Wales, Scotland and England, with a charitable body, The Health Lottery Foundation, assessing applications and providing grants for health-related projects all over Great Britain.

To date, The Health Lottery has helped to fund over 3,500 projects.

Who receives Health Lottery funding?

The Health Lottery has supported health-related projects in Great Britain that don’t currently receive NHS funding, including:

- Dementia UK
- Mencap
- The Children’s Food Trust
- The Alzheimer’s society
- Scope
- The Royal Voluntary Service
- Admiral Nurses
- Youth Sport Trust
- The Conservation Volunteers
- Carers Trust

Money raised through The Health Lottery has supported a range of innovative projects across Britain.

£38,322 was awarded to Finding Your Feet, who support over 800 amputees and people born without limbs, giving practical support and promoting accessibility, which helped them fund a new drop-in centre in Alloa, Scotland.

Aberbeeg Community Well-being Initiative tending the community garden and woodland areas for improved mental health in Blaenau Gwent (Wales) benefitted from a £36,337 Health Lottery grant.

£33,476 was given to FaceFront Inclusive Theatre, to deliver a weekly performance art club for disabled adults in Enfield in England.

More unique projects include English language classes for the Chinese migrant community in Suffolk and a dance club that challenges ideas about disability in Swindon and Gloucestershire.

Every time you play one of our games, be it The Big Win, All or Nothing, QuickWin or one of our many Instant Win scratch card games, funding continues to pour into the charity pot for the Foundation to allocate, improving the health and well-being of people and communities all over Britain.

Thank you for the difference you make every time you play with heart!

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The Health Lottery operates on behalf of The Health Lottery Foundation, PO BOX 8109, Daventry, NN11 1JA. Promoter: Delva Patman.

The Health Lottery Foundation exists to raise funds in support of health-related causes throughout Great Britain. It receives and assesses grant applications and awards funding across GB. For information on good causes and to apply for a grant click HERE. 20% of every lottery draw ticket and online scratchcard purchased goes towards good causes. Across all games, 34% is spent on prizes and 46% is spent on expenses (actual expenses exceed this figure). Our average annual proceeds from lotteries are £14.5m. The odds of winning The Big Win jackpot are 1 in 2.1m and the odds of winning any Big Win prize is 1 in 9.7. The odds of winning the All or Nothing jackpot is 1 in 1.35m and the odds of winning any All or Nothing prize is 1 in 4.5. The odds of winning a QuickWin jackpot is 1 in 2.1m and the odds of winning any QuickWin prize is 1 in 6. All winning lottery numbers are selected using an approved random number generator (RNG). Click on the links below for full T&Cs and FAQs for each of our games.

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