Lottery facts you may not know

Here are some lottery facts that you may not know!

• Over 70 per cent of adults play the Lottery on a regular basis, and the crossed fingers logo is recognised by 95 per cent of the UK population.

• Sales of Lottery tickets have risen by £182.8 million in the twelve months to 31 March, 2009, according to
lottery organisers Camelot.

• The total value of tickets sold in 2008/09 was £5,149.1 million.

• The UK National Lottery remains the most cost efficient lottery in Europe.

• 5p is paid to National Lottery retailers on all National Lottery tickets sold.

• For every £1 that the public spends on Lottery tickets 28 pence goes to the Lottery good causes. Lottery
funders are the organisations that distribute the good causes money to local communities and national
projects. There are 17 arts, charities and voluntary groups, heritage, health, education, the environment
and sports in this group.

• That means they are given 1.64p per group to distribute to their cause. According to recent surveys with the public in general.

• £2.80 is spent on average per week offline.

• £4.15 is spent on average per week online.