Money raised through sales of National Lottery tickets by independent retailers has reached new £10billion milestone
Corner shops all over the UK are being celebrated for the money they have raised for National Lottery funded Good Causes through selling National Lottery tickets.
The campaign is supported by Allwyn’s Social Value Fund that the company has committed to invest in social value initiatives.
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Kuljit Athwal, owner of Premier Grand Avenue Stores in Cardiff, has helped raise over £1million for Good Causes since he began selling Lottery tickets in his shop over 22 years ago.
To mark Kuljit’s achievement Allwyn arranged a visit from Joanna Page, star of Gavin and Stacey and Welsh icon. Together they visited Ministry of Life Education in Cardiff that has received £568,000 of National Lottery funding.
Olympic boxer, Nicola Adams met with Monty Dipoti owner of Todmorden News in West Yorkshire. Since taking over the shop 16 years ago Monty has helped raise more than £2.3 million for Good Causes through selling National Lottery tickets.
Together, they visited Northern Powerhouse Boxing Academy, the UK’s first women-led boxing club, which has received £250,000 of Lottery funding.
Steve Weight has run Borough Green Stores in Kent for 32 years, raising more than £1.4m for Good Causes in that time. He was visited by local hero Matt Weston, double Olympic gold medal skeleton racer at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, who grew up just down the road in Sevenoaks and benefited from funding through UK Sport’s Elite Athletes programme.
Matt then visited Charlie’s Angels Kitchens, a local not-for-profit organisation focused on tackling both food poverty and food waste, that has received £20k of Lottery funding thanks to retailers like Steve.
“Most people in the UK live within half a mile of a Lottery funded Good Cause project, in no small part due to the extraordinary efforts of independent retailers who sell National Lottery tickets.
The remarkable £10 billion local retailers have raised for Good Causes around the country has helped train Olympic and Paralympic athletes, fund award-winning British films and our world-renowned brilliant museums and galleries, as well as supporting thousands of vital community, education and heritage projects.”
Alastair Ruxton
