Concern and disappointment over DCMS charity lottery review

Two organisations have expressed their disappointment at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS) decision to further delay charity lottery reform

Two organisations have got verbalised their dashing hopes at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS) conclusion to farther holdup brotherly love lottery reform.

A critique regarding charity lottery insurance has been ongoing since Aug 2021, and has at present been published, but a much-anticipated rear in yearly sales limit point — from £50m ($66.6m) to £100m — did non materialise.

Instead, DCMS determined that the electric current circumscribe was working as intended, stating it does not “consider further insurance changes are necessary at this time.”

As a result, the Department’s statement has been met with dashing hopes from those who had supported an increase, including both the Lotteries Council and People’s Postcode Lottery (PPL).

The proposed rise, claimed PPL, had received “wide-spread political backing — including from Prime Minister Boris Johnson,” and described the conclusion as a “missed opportunity.”

“This financial statement from DCMS is a missed opportunity for the authorities to keep the brotherly love and charity lottery sectors at a time when charities make been impacted by II years of the Covid pandemic, which has affected charity fundraising at the same clip as increasing charitable need,” said Clara Govier, PPL Managing Director.

She added: “For the government to non deal farther changes which they antecedently supported is concerning and disappointing and a missed opportunity to bread and butter charities.”

The Lotteries Council expressed a similar sentiment, calling the Department’s findings “timid.” Its Chair, Tony Vick, commented: “The Lotteries Council is disappointed that DCMS has reached its end despite the responsible diplomatic minister regrettably being unable to pee-pee time to gather with the sector, patch partly basing their determination upon unpublished Gambling Commission data.

“The Lotteries Council calls upon the governing to elucidate how they at present intend to fulfil their consignment to assure the smart set lottery sector preserve to ‘thrive’ and maximise returns to right causes crossways the country.”