The introduction of a midweek National Lottery draw is expected to boost ticket sales by 30 per cent, further fuelling the benefits to “good causes” by 3.8m per week. Designers are expected to pick up more Lottery-funded projects as a result.
Saatchi and Saatchi Design will continue its work for Camelot by designing tickets for the midweek draw, scheduled to begin in the new year.
With last week’s introduction of the National Heritage Bill, the range of grants which can be offered through the Heritage Lottery fund is being extended.
National Heritage Secretary Virginia Bottomley says Lottery funds could be used to provide or improve visitor facilities at heritage sites, and to pay for new technology to “improve presentation and interpretation”.
A report published last week by the Department of National Heritage seeks to dispel fears about lack of partnership funding which puts those involved in projects, and suppliers such as designers, at financial risk. The report reveals that up to June this year, partnership funding was three times more than the minimum stipulated by the Government.
Meanwhile, the Millennium Ferris Wheel was given the go ahead by planners at London’s Lambeth Council last week.
The 10m wheel will have its home overlooking the Thames for five years, and will then be dismantled and moved to a permanent location.
David Marks and Julia Barfield, the wheel’s designers, say the decision “brings a dream which has excited the public’s imagination… closer to reality”.
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