Imagine this – since last Saturday two members of an Edinburgh family have known that they have won over £2m on the Lottery. How could they keep it a secret? But Camelot are apparently having a press conference tomorrow to announce the identities of the lucky winners.
Wow! That is good news. We hope they have some fun with their win.
Here are some facts you may not already know about The National Lottery.
• National Lottery players have helped to raise more than £24 billion for Good
Causes to date
• More than 340,000 individual awards have been made across the UK in the
biggest programme of civic regeneration since the 19th Century – that is an
average of 113 lottery grants for every single postcode district
• At around 40% of total National Lottery revenue (around 28% to the Good Causes and 12% paid to the Government in Lottery Duty), the UK National Lottery returns a higher proportion of revenue to society than any other major lottery in the world both in actual and percentage terms
• On average, each week around £25 million is generated for Good Causes. Winners and Prizes • Over £37.5 billion has been paid out in prizes since launch • On average, more than 4 million people win prizes every week on The National Lottery’s range of draw-based games and Scratchcards
• Over 2,400 millionaires or multi-millionaires have been created since launch
• One in 7,366 of the UK’s player population has now won a share of a National Lottery jackpot.
• Since their win, 98% of lottery winners report that they are as happy or happier
• 97% of jackpot winners give money to family while 69% give to friends and 77%
of winners also share their wealth with charity
• 14% of winners have created between one and three other millionaires since
their win
• One in four National Lottery jackpots is won by a syndicate
