Accrington Web - View Single Post - Have you ever wondered where the lottery money goes? Good causes, right?

PurpleLass · 08-04-2005, 08:22

The problem with getting funding (and I've tried) is that it's all geared up for rejection. If you want a sum of money for something simple like new goalposts for a football club for example, you have to fill in so many forms to get them that you might as well just build them yourself. But if you want something huge, like £100,000 for something bizarre, they will help you fill your forms in so that you're more likely to meet their criteria. So a lot of actual good causes don't bother applying because it's too much trouble or too confusing or they don't think they'll be eligible when they would. This leaves even more money available for the weird ones.

08-04-2005, 08:22	#28
PurpleLass Full Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 269 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 42	Re: Have you ever wondered where the lottery money goes? Good causes, right? The problem with getting funding (and I've tried) is that it's all geared up for rejection. If you want a sum of money for something simple like new goalposts for a football club for example, you have to fill in so many forms to get them that you might as well just build them yourself. But if you want something huge, like £100,000 for something bizarre, they will help you fill your forms in so that you're more likely to meet their criteria. So a lot of actual good causes don't bother applying because it's too much trouble or too confusing or they don't think they'll be eligible when they would. This leaves even more money available for the weird ones.