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niFundraising calls for sector wide action on society lotteries in Northern Ireland

The following is a summary report shared with NICVA, Department for Communities and the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland highlighting issues in the practice of fundraising from society lotteries in Northern Ireland. Recently letters have been sent to charities reminded them of the regulations by the Department for Communities and articles released on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland website. Still, you don't have to go far to find illegal and non-compliant lotteries, sometimes unfortunately run by household name charities. In one County Down village you can buy illegal lottery tickets from a stand right beside a National Lottery stand (for a local GAA club) inside a local supermarket chain store. To highlight some of the issues and to increase the lobby to change the law I presented this report and action plan to stakeholders calling for action to inform, regulate and in some cases enforce legislation. The work of Good Raffle C.I.C. is part of this initiat