In 2007-08, the lottery funded Arts Council England (ACE) Grants for the Arts scheme awarded 2,800 grants totalling almost £57 million.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In 2007-08 92% of ACE's income derived from the National Lottery.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In 2008 the Grants for the Arts programme had funded just under half of the projects for which it received applications since its launch in 2003.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

Between 2005 and 2008, ACE's Grants for the Arts scheme distributed over £350 million. From 2007 onwards, all Grants for the Arts schemes were lottery funded.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In 2008, the average estimated size of a grant received through ACE's Grants for the Arts programme was £5,900 for individuals, £26,000 for organisations and £46,000 for national activities.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In 2008 it was stated that both the diversion of ACE lottery funds to the 2012 London Olympics, and a decline in lottery ticket sales, had affected funding for the Grants for the Arts programme.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

Lottery grant commitments made by ACE in 2007-08 totalled £91 million. In 2006-07 the total figure was £128 million.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In February 2008, legislation was passed allowing the transfer of up to £1,085 million from the National Lottery Distribution Fund to the Olympic Lottery Distribution Fund. The figure comprised £410 originally earmarked for the Olympics from the Lottery, and a further £675 million arising from budget reviews.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

As part of the initial London bid for the 2012 Olympic Games, ACE committed to contributing up to £50 million in lottery money. By February 2008 this figure had risen to a potential maximum of £113 million. The first transfer of ACE lottery money was set to occur in February 2009, when ACE would transfer up to £8 million t the Olympic Lottery Distribution Fund.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In 2007-08, the costs of administering the distribution of ACE lottery funds accounted for 11.44% of its overall income from the lottery.
Annual Review 2008, ACE, August 2008

In 2008 it was projected ACE lottery funds would contribute £112.5 million to the 2012 London Olympics over the four years leading up to it. This amounts to £28 million per year, or 5% of the expected total income for the arts in the period 2008-09 to 2011-12. It was stated there would be approximately £500 million of new Lottery money for ACE over those four years and that existing Lottery commitments would not be affected.
Margaret Hodge, Minister of State for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism
Department of Culture Media and Sport, Daily Hansard, 29th April 2008

In 2003-4 ACE distributed £168 million of Lottery money to arts projects. The arts sector's share of Awards for All amounts to another £5.9 million. Government grant-in-aid distributed by ACE to arts organisations in the same period totalled £277 million.
Todd, V., What about the arts?, Lottery Monitor, September 2005

Between 1995 and 2004 London received £2.9 billion of National Lottery funds, representing just over a quarter of total distribution. The majority of funds went to cultural activities.
London Cultural Capital; Realising the potential of a world-class city, Greater London Authority, 2004

In 2002, London received 36.6% of National Lottery funds by value and 15.1% by number of awards allocated for arts (including film) in the UK.
London Cultural Capital; Realising the potential of a world-class city, Greater London Authority, 2004

In 2002, Greenwich relieved the highest level of National Lottery funding for culture within London at £680 million. Bexley, Havering, Hillingdon, Kingston upon Thames and Sutton who all received the lowest at £20 million.
London Cultural Capital; Realising the potential of a world-class city, Greater London Authority, 2004