And the Big Lottery winner is ...

Since 1994 28p for every £1 spent by the public on the National Lottery has gone to "good" causes including community groups and projects that "improve health, education and the environment".

You may be interested to know that one of the biggest winners of Big Lottery largesse is Action on Smoking and Health Scotland which has been awarded £500,000 from the Big Lottery Fund's research programme.

Full story HERE.

Meanwhile ASH Scotland employs a staggering 27 people (and is currently advertising for a senior research officer) while devouring £900,000 of taxpayers' money last year.

Nice work if you can get it.

Comments

[junican]

How very strange. I wonder who exactly decides what good causes should receive support? Some committee, I suppose.

I would not have thought that Ash Scotland would be considered to be a 'good cause' within the common definition that we all use for 'a good cause', even if it was true that their propaganda was a good thing, not when you consider the real and immediate 'good causes' to which this money could have been put.

The only sensible reason for this grant is Government pressure.

Isn't that the saddest thing? Even REAL charities are being corrupted by our Government.

[ann]

This is absolutely sickening to read when you think of the state of the health service, MRSA bugs, lack of hygiene etc. because of lack of money.
Where is it going to end.
Like the witches of old smokers are deemed to be lepers.
Maybe society needs to have witches and lepers to function nowadays.
And now the agenda is that this massive amount of money is to be wasted on home smoke police.
Funny how the druggies will escape the home smoking police, they could be shooting up or someone could be murdered in the home but the smoke police nazis will only want to detect the smokers.
My very little consolation is that I dont give to charities any more, I dont buy xmas cards for the cancer society and I dont buy lottery tickets.
I wont mention the R word Jenny!

[Peter Thurgood]

Anyone who cares should take a look at this

Warning: this could lead to a heart attack!

[Joseph K]

How ironic, one vice I don't indulge in (gambling), helps fund zealots who persecute me for another!