Skip to main content
Hello! We use cookies to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used. Find out more.

To: The Rt Hon Maria Miller MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

Have an option to vote for a cause on each lottery ticket.

Dear Minister,

On every lottery ticket, I would like an option to decide where the funding goes. This ensures it goes to a cause I believe in, either locally or nationally.

It would be easy to set up. Just an extra set of numbers on the ticket that can be marked with the registered number of the charity. Or a system of published numbers.

Why is this important?

I don't do the lottery because of some of the decisions on where the money goes. If I was able to choose then I would be more willing to buy a ticket.

£30,000 to Manchester United, one of the worlds richest clubs, to pay for their staff to go to the gym.

£75,000,000 to the Royal Opera House who won't even display a plaque acknowledging the lottery funding because its too tacky.

£12,000,000 given to Conservative MP (at the time) Winston Churchill for the Churchill papers.

Updates

2015-04-28 01:23:50 +0100

25 signatures reached

2013-07-01 17:07:01 +0100

10 signatures reached