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The National Lottery (Irish: An Crannchur Náisiúnta) is the state-licensed lottery of Ireland.Established in 1986 to raise funds for good causes, it began operations on 23 March 1987 when it sold its first scratchcards.
The National Lottery Community Fund is responsible for distributing 40% of the good cause money raised and typically distributes over £500 million a year to communities across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well as working closely with Government to distribute vital grants and funding from key Government programmes and ...
As the main development agency for the arts it is responsible for the distribution of Exchequer and National Lottery Funding for the arts in Northern Ireland. [2] The council is headquartered at Linen Hill House, 23 Linenhall Street, Lisburn. [3] Organisationally it is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Communities.
Sport Northern Ireland officially known as the Sports Council for Northern Ireland, [1] is the regional government sports council (funding body) for Northern Ireland. Its head office is based, near Barnett Demesne , at the "House of Sport" on Upper Malone Road in Belfast .
In 1986, the Irish government created a new public lottery, and the company failed to secure the new contract to manage it. The final sweepstake was held in January 1986 and the company was unsuccessful in a licence bid for the Irish National Lottery, which was won by An Post later that year. The company went into voluntary liquidation in March ...
Between May 2022 and May 2023, VWT carried out the Development Phase of National Lottery Heritage Fund project – Martens on the Move, [45] which was granted funding for a four-year project to work with local communities to help the long-term survival of pine martens and to ensure gene flow between the new populations, and their expansion ...
the distribution of National Lottery funding; museums; the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI); and; sport. Broadcasting, intellectual property and the administration of the National Lottery are reserved to Westminster and are therefore not devolved. [7] DCAL's main counterparts in the United Kingdom Government were:
In January 2019 it simplified its funding schemes under one banner – National Lottery Grants for Heritage – with awards from £3,000 to £5 million. [4] Funding requests for projects over £5 million will be considered as part of two time-limited national competitions to be held in 2020–21 and 2022–23.