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National Lottery

Responsibility for the National Lottery rests with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport Opens new window (DCMS). Within Northern Ireland, the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL) is the lead Department and is responsible for advising DCMS on Lottery matters.

There are currently four independent distributing bodies responsible for distributing Lottery money in Northern Ireland. These are: the Sport Northern Ireland;Opens new window the Arts Council of Northern Ireland;Opens new window the Heritage Lottery Fund Opens new window and the Big Lottery Fund.Opens new window

To date approximately £717m of National Lottery money has been awarded to around 13,600 projects in Northern Ireland.

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