charities registered to run large society lotteries

Request

How many charities have been registered each year to run large society lotteries?

Response

Thank you for your request which has been processed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).

In your email you have requested information relating to how many charities have been registered each year to run large society lotteries?

The following table shows the number of operators for each year that have/had Charity Commission status (or OSCR Office of Scottish Charity Regulator in Scotland). We have used the licence end date to calculate the number by year.

31/03/2016 - 116

31/03/2017 - 118

31/03/2018 -109

31/03/2019 -107

31/03/2020 - 103

31/03/2021 - 100

31/03/2022 - 103

31/03/2023 -103

31/03/2024 -102

31/03/2025 - 98

Grand Total = 1059

However, it should be noted that this information is not regularly reviewed or updated. As such, an operator may have had Charitable status in the past, but doesn’t any longer. If that change has not been updated on our records management system, where this information is generated from, it will not be reflected in the above figures.

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Information Management Team
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