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Camelot, the operator of the UK National Lottery,
recently announced that returns to the Olympic
Lottery Distribution Fund (OLDF) rose for the
fourth quarter in a row. Official figures show
that returns to the OLDF in the first quarter
of the current financial year were £13.4
million. This is 28% higher than the £10.4
million returns of the previous quarter, and
far more than the £3.2 million and £2.7
million returned in the second and third quarters
of the last financial year, and brings the current
total of funds raised (to 1 July 2006) to £29.7
million.
Camelot has pledged to contribute up to £1.5
billion to help fund the London 2012 Games infrastructure,
with £750 million of this amount coming
from a series of games assigned specifically
for this purpose.
The first game in this series - the Go For
Gold scratch card - was successfully launched
in July of last year. Then, in Quarter 1 of
this year, other games followed - £100k
Love, Win Gold, £250k Yellow, Dash For
Cash, £100k Purple and Bee Lucky. Dream
Number, launched several weeks ago, was the
first National Lottery draw designated to the
London 2012 project. In addition to all of this,
all Good Cause contributions from the sale of
Camelot's online Instant Win games are being
assigned to the OLDF.
Dianne Thompson, Chief Executive of Camelot,
says: "We are delighted that sales of tickets
for designated games in support of London 2012
continue to see strong growth, underlining the
tremendous enthusiasm with which National Lottery
players have embraced the opportunity to help
raise the funding required to stage the London
Games.
"This is a great start - but rest assured
we will not be resting on our laurels. We're
very encouraged by players' response to our
new Dream Number game - which created more than
210,000 winners in its first week alone. We
look forward to building on this achievement
- offering our players the chance to win some
fantastic prizes as well as getting behind London
2012."
23 August, 2006
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