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Nearly every church in Britain has an organ and the sound produced by each one is very much part of the church atmosphere. Now the British National Lottery has stepped in to help an organ that is part of the country’s heritage.

The organ in Holy Trinity church, Gosport, Hampshire was originally built in 1720 for the Duke of Chandos in his house called ‘Cannons’ in Little Stanmore, Middlesex. The house was remarkable as it was built between 1713 and 1724 at great expense, only to be demolished by the second Duke of Chandos in 1747. In the meantime it became a centre for the arts. The composer in residence during 1717 and 1718 was one George Frederic Handel who would have played the organ installed in the house.

The first Duke died in 1744, leaving his son with debts largely as a result of the building of Cannons and investments in the notorious South Sea Bubble collapse. To cover the debts, the second duke sold the house piecemeal and its contents too.

The famous organ somehow made its way from the house to Gosport, where it resides today, and it still contains some of the original instrument played by Handel.

The UK lottery draw stepped in when it was realized that extensive renovation was required. £42 000 has been raised locally but much more was needed and the British National Lottery‘s Heritage Lottery Fund was able to award £167 000 to ensure the work goes ahead.

BBC television presenter Pam Rhodes, who comes from Gosport, is delighted the restoration can take place saying, “How wonderful that beautiful Holy Trinity Church might once again be filled with its magnificent sound, brining atmosphere to worship and pleasure to all music lovers.”

The UK lottery draw has an impact on many projects, large and small.

Watch a video here about the organ in Gosport to be saved with British National Lottery money.

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It is very easy to forget that Britain has territories outside the British Isles but a recent report has shown that even the British National Lottery has influence around the world.

The UK lottery draw supports many heritage projects around Britain and the Heritage Lottery Fund has so far provided around £4.5 billion to deserving causes. Now the London office of the British Virgin Islands has asked the fund for help in maintaining their heritage sites.

The British Virgin Islands consider themselves as part of the United Kingdom and are indeed have been a British sovereign territory since 1672. The islands are sited towards the south of the Caribbean in the chain that includes St Kitts and Nevis, Guadeloupe, Antigua and Barbuda and Puerta Rico. The main islands in the BVI are Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, Jost Van Dyke and Anegada with the capital, Road Town, sited on Tortola. There are in fact around sixty islands in the group and in total they have a population of around 22,000. Curiously the currency is the US dollar.

Unsurprisingly one of the main industries of this tropical paradise is tourism. In 2006 around 825,603 people visited the territory, many of these arrived on cruise ships. Stories of pirates and slavery abound and there is a good collection of historic sites for visitors to see including a copper mine, museums, old plantation estates, forts, burial sites, churches and national parks.

It is these tourist destinations the BVI authorities would like to update with money from the UK lottery draw. The Director of the London office, Kedrick Malone, is hopeful the application will be successful and the BVI will be the first overseas territory to access lottery money.

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Apparently it was National Nude Week in the UK on July 14th (how did we miss that one?). Anyway, those people at that great way to play lotteries online, Wintrillions.com, decided to make a suitably cheeky promotional video.

Enjoy the video on this page.

Lots of people are taking the opportunity to play lotteries online, it can be great fun and there are plenty of global lotteries to choose from. You can either buy your tickets online or join a syndicate.

One lady recently won £250 000 playing the lotteries on the Wintrillions site.

And don’t forget, each of the lottery sites also offer attractive affiliate schemes too, so you can even make money by recommending your friends.

Why not browse the opportunities available on this site to see which suits you?

Whatever you do, we at UKLotteryDraw.com wish you the very best of luck!

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On the 27 July 2012 the London Olympics will commence. With one year to go the progress is impressive.

With the help of £2.2 billion from the British National Lottery, several of the essential venues are already completed. Construction of the main Olympic Stadium has been finished with the laying of the last square of turf and the construction of the Basketball Arena, the Handball Arena, the Velodrome, the Aquatics Centre and the Lee Valley White Water Centre has also been finished.

Also completed is the main railway station specific to the venues and the press and broadcast centres are also finished.

The development was designed with a view to long-term sustainability for the local community and, with this in mind, three quarters of the promised residential development on the area is structurally complete. Nearby the Chobham Academy school is almost structurally complete too.

About £5 billion of contracts related to the Olympic Games have been awarded to British businesses and 22,000 schools are involved in related initiatives. British companies built the entire Olympic stadium and the same can be said for 98% of the other facilities.

Over the months before the Olympic flame is lit, heralding the start of the 2012 Games, several test events will be held at the venues to ensure they are fit for their main purpose. Some have already happened with the streets of London closing on the 30 May for a successful trial of the marathon course. The white Basketball Arena will host the London International Basketball Invitational between the 16 and 21 August this year.

It has been decided not to hold the British athletics trials in the 80,000 seat Olympic stadium for logistic reasons but the venue has been busy already: the British Universities athletics championships were held there in May, as was the London Disability Grand Prix for paralympic athletes.

After much concern about the cost of the construction, it is at last good to see that everything is well on schedule. The British National Lottery money was obviously well spent.

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Stef Collins has been star of women’s basketball in New York State for some years but for the 2012 Olympic Games in London she hopes to play for Great Britain, following a training camp provided by the British National Lottery.

The reason she can play for Great Britain and take advantage of the generosity of the British National Lottery is that Stef (now 28 years old) was born in Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire. She moved to America and played basketball for Odessa-Montour high school and St. Bonaventure University.

The places on the squad are not yet finalized but it seems pretty certain she will play for the British team: a fact that is exciting both for British ambitions and for her fans in New York. 2012 will be the first time a British team has appeared at the Olympics since women’s basketball was included in 1976. The British Basketball Federation was only formed in 2006 specifically for the build up to the London Olympic Games.

Stef Collins has in fact been with the British team since that start in 2006 and they made their mark last month by making it to the last twelve of the EuroBasket Women’s Championships in Poland.

Stef’s career has always moved between the USA and Britain as she played for a time in the Rhondda Rebels team in Wales before moving to the University of Wales at Cardiff to get a master’s degree and play basketball.

Damian Jennings, an assistant coach on the Great Britain team marks Stef down as a natural leader so it all looks good for British hopes.

Once again the British National Lottery helps Olympic hopefuls get to the Games.

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A lady who won £250,000 in the British National Lottery just avoided being sent to prison recently. Instead she received a four-month sentence suspended for two years when she appeared in St Albans Crown Court in Hertfordshire. She also has to abide to a curfew between the hours of 8pm and 6am.

What had she done wrong?

Pensioner Christine Greenhill won the money from the British National Lottery in November 2005 but she continued to claim social security benefits without notifying the authorities that she had savings well in excess of the limit set by the Department of Work And Pensions. She had also stated she was living on her own when she had a partner sharing her home.

She was accused of obtaining £14 000 to which she was not entitled. It seems the money was spent on meals out and holidays.

Make sure you don’t forget to tell the right people when you win money in the UK lottery draw!

Read the whole story on the Hertfordshire Mercury website.

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The UK lottery draw finances some worthwhile projects and one of the latest to get support from lottery funds is a scheme called Very Important Kids.

Sadly as many as 80 000 children may be suffering from severe depression. The difference between a child simply playing up and a more worrying condition is hard to detect even for professionals so it is a difficult subject to tackle.

The Very Important Kids programme is run by the YoungMinds charity and is intended to improve the facilities for young people with mental health issues. Now the UK lottery draw has provided funding, nine regional workers can be employed to help the three-year scheme both locally and nationally.

Money is also available now for transport, campaigns, activities and other resources.

Twenty-seven young people have been recruited to campaign around the country to make their peers aware of the project and that help is available. They get involved in media projects and even public speaking engagements.

Bill Badham of YoungMinds says, “We aim to give our young people the strength to make changes to services locally and policy nationally.”

The recent mental health strategy produced by the Government has put young people to the fore so something is being done right!

To find out more about the project, go to the Very Important Kids website.

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The success of the movie The Kings Speech has reflected on the UK lottery draw too.

One of the biggest challenges facing moviemakers is financing. The makers of the now hit film about the struggles of King George VI to over come his speech impediment had similar problems.

The UK Film Council uses UK lottery draw funds to encourage the British film industry and so it was to this body that the producers of The Kings Speech went to find money for their project. They were rewarded with £1 million to help with the early stages of the production.

The waterfall of awards, including four Oscars, awarded to the film has vindicated this faith in the movie. It goes beyond that however; by February the worldwide takings for the film exceeded $245 million (£152 million), which means the original investment will be paid plus substantial profits.

Surprisingly after this success the UK Film Council has been disbanded under new government plans to slim down bureaucracy. However their responsibilities have been taken up by another body, the British Film Institute, and the funding increased by sixty percent so the future looks good for the British film industry.

Obviously there was funding for The Kings Speech other than that from the UK lottery draw. £10 million came from a consortium of private investors and £480 000 from the European Media Fund.

The success is seen as a vindication of public film investment so, when you next buy your UK lottery draw tickets, you can reflect that you had a part in one of the most successful movies of recent times.

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With one year to go until the 2012 London Olympics, the UK lottery draw is helping to encourage young people in Britain to join in with sport.

A national scheme to encourage the playing of sport has a total fund available of £32 million, all of which has come from UK lottery draw funds. The project is intended to take advantage of the interest in sport expected as enthusiasm for the Olympics grows.

In the north east of England, Sportivate has been allocated £650 000 of the money to encourage youngsters aged between 14 and 25 who never participate in a sport to try at least one activity. Athletics, dancing and swimming are among the activities included.

With the concern about the lack of activity by young people now, this initiative and the funding from the UK lottery draw is well timed.

See more about the Sportivate scheme on the SunderlandEcho.com site.

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Yet another new lottery fraud has surfaced in the town of Austintown, Ohio and has been reported on the WKBN.com website.

At first this one appears to be exciting and not a scam at all. A lady in Austintown received a cheque for $1985 in the post, supposedly from a body calling itself the ‘Global Lotto Commission.’

The letter with the cheque claims she has won part of a $125 000 lottery jackpot. The next step was for her to call a number given in the letter to speak to a specific individual. Fortunately the lady concerned was smart enough not to call the number but instead to report the letter.

Of course there is no such organization as the Global Lotto Commission; indeed the name is well known as a scam cover and has been used before.

But surely in this case, the lady could have just cashed the cheque and profited that way? Sadly if she rang the number provided she would be told to send a portion of the money via Western Union to cover administration charges. The cheque she received will certainly prove to be invalid and she would have sent her own money to the scammers.

The British National Lottery administrators, Camelot, and other lottery bodies are aware of how common these scams are becoming and are keen to educate people on what to look for and not give money or information to the scammers.

After all, that is what these people are after: your money or your identity.

The British National Lottery website provides some useful information relevant to anyone and to any of the many global lotteries.

The first rules should be well known but bear repeating. No lottery organization will contact you to tell you of a winning lottery ticket; you have to claim your winnings from them and show your winning ticket.

You will already know you are in a lottery, as you will have purchased a ticket or joined a syndicate. In other words, you will have already parted with money to play the lottery in advance. Now you can play lotteries online but you still purchase tickets before the draw.

The British National Lottery and other lottery administrators will never tell you how much you have won in an email and certainly would never ask for your personal details or money. Why would they?

The scammers are getting more sophisticated however. Emails may include an embedded link which will take you to an official looking website. Not surprisingly you will be asked to enter your details on this site or perhaps download software.

This of course is phishing and will give the scammer details that can be used to access your accounts or even make purchases in your name.

Never follow a link in such an email. If you think the email might be genuine (unlikely) and you want to check, find the proper official website yourself through Google. If the results bring up a different website to the one in the email then you are being scammed.

Obviously the different global lotteries have different websites but the one for the British National Lottery can be found at National-Lottery.co.uk.

The bottom line is if you receive an email, letter or telephone call telling you of a prize from a lottery you have not entered, delete the email, destroy the letter or put the telephone down. You may want to report it to the appropriate authorities first but never act on the information you are given.

These scammers have made too much money from their victims. Let’s shut off their sources.

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