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The seven-year countdown to the London 2012 Olympic Games was kicked off on 27 July with a number of events, including the official launch of ... More

The public will soon be able to vote on where £65.5m of National Lottery good cause money goes through People’s Millions – an initiative launched ... More

A health club in Hampshire is working with local secondary schools to target inactivity in teenage girls. The Energy Fitness Centre, managed by Energy Fitness ... More

A national survey has revealed that participation and appreciation of the arts are more popular than sport and are widely indulged across the social spectrum. ... More

National Lottery funding over the past seven years means that sport in the UK is now at an unprecedented level, according to UK Sport. Since ... More

A report from internet researcher Nielsen/NetRatings has revealed that almost 4.3 million people in the UK visited a gambling website during September 2004. As 23.3 ... More

A survey into the National Lottery has said that its operator, Camelot, needs to continue highlighting the good causes it supports if it is to ... More

Britain will host two major sporting events over the next year, as both the Partially Sighted Football World Championships and the Rowing World Cup will ... More

The operator of the National Lottery, Camelot, is beginning its search for a new chairman following the departure of Michael Grade to the BBC. Grade, ... More

The Sports Council for Wales has announced that its National Lottery funded schemes are to be cut back following a decline in income. Although the ... More

The Millennium Commission, which distributes funds from the National Lottery, is to have an exhibition at the Tate Modern dedicated to its work. The exhibition, ... More

The government has published its Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Bill. Part one of the bill enables the government to sell the Horserace Totalisator Board ... More

At a ceremony on 18 November in the Great Court of London’s British Museum, Tessa Jowell – Minister for Culture, Media and Sport – and ... More

National lottery operator, Camelot, is to launch a daily draw in an attempt to boost sales. The Daily Play game – which will cost £1 ... More

Timothy Hornsby, currently a Commissioner for the National Lottery Charities Board and a Trustee of the Charles Darwin Trust, has been named chair designate of ... More

Changes to the way the National Lottery is run will result in the public having more of a say in where the money goes. Culture ... More

In its 2002/03 annual report published on 10 July, British Waterways’ (BW) new chief executive, Robin Evans, has outlined the organisation’s vision for the future ... More

Government culture secretary, Tessa Jowell, has confirmed a revised list of ministerial leisure and tourism responsibilities within the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. Richard ... More

National lottery operator, Camelot, has announced plans for five new games to help fund the 2012 Olympic Games if London wins the bid to host ... More

Liverpool's first purpose-built cultural project for over sixty years is opening tomorrow. FACT (Film, Art, Creative Technology) is part of the £110m redevelopment of the ... More