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Camelot has now delivered over £27 billion for the Good Causes.
Camelot is committed to maximising returns to the Good Causes by operating The National Lottery in a socially-responsible way.
Despite a challenging economic climate and a worldwide trend of lower lottery sales growth, Camelot announced record half-year returns to the Good Causes and prize payouts as it achieved its highest-ever interim National Lottery sales in the six months to 24 September 2011. Camelot has now delivered over £27 billion for the Good Causes and paid out over £40 billion to players in prize money since The National Lottery’s launch in 1994 – reinforcing its position as one of the world’s most successful lottery operators.
In the first six months of the 2011/12 financial year, Camelot succeeded in growing total sales to £3,264.4 million, an increase of £542.4 million (19.9%) on the corresponding period last year. This outstanding performance once again underlines the ongoing effectiveness of Camelot’s strategy for long-term, responsible growth which aims to encourage many people to play but to each spend relatively little.
This approach has now seen total National Lottery sales increase by over 20% since the start of Camelot’s second lottery licence in 2002 – and the number of players rise by over 5% in the last five years alone. However, the UK National Lottery is ranked just 60th in terms of per capita spend despite being the seventh largest lottery in the world in terms of sales – clear evidence of Camelot’s ongoing commitment to being a responsible operator.
The rise in sales helped to drive direct returns to the Good Causes over the half-year up from £784.8 million to £918.3 million1, an increase of £133.5 million over the same period last year. Lottery funding has now enabled more than 370,000 individual awards to be made across the UK – the equivalent of 120 lottery grants for every postcode district.
Camelot paid out a record £1,689.9 million in prize money during the half-year – taking the total amount of prizes now paid to players to over £40 billion. Over 2,700 lottery millionaires and multi-millionaires have been created to date – including the UK’s biggest-ever lottery winners, Colin and Chris Weir, who banked a £161 million EuroMillions jackpot in August.
For further information on Camelot’s sales performance for the first half of 2011/12, please visit our Corporate News area.
Download the lastest National Lottery sales for February 2012 PDF and sales figures for the previous quarter (Q3 figures) PDF.
1 Figures do not include investment returns on National Lottery balances which are reported separately.
