National Lottery players have contributed £504m towards good causes this year, with Scotland’s Orkney Islands benefitting from the largest lottery grants per capita.
A total of £1.69m in National Lottery funds was allocated to the Orkney Islands this year. With a population of just 22,020, this equates to £76.73 per person. More than half of the money (£914,235 or £41.52 per capita) went towards sports-related causes, while heritage projects attracted significant funding, worth £33.45 per capita. The remaining funds went towards arts.
So far this year, the National Lottery has awarded Scotland the third highest funds regionally, with London and the North West taking the first and second spots respectively.
The data was based on a study from NoDepositRewards.org, which analysed all 9,005 National Lottery grants awarded between January 1 and September 30 this year, as listed on UK Department for Culture, Media and Sports. Notably, the researchers noticed some projects reported in the media were missing from the government data, hence all the findings below are strictly based on the data available on the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sports website at the time of collection, on October 9.
