The Guardian report:

More than £400m of lottery money diverted from good causes to pay for the Olympics is unlikely to be repaid for decades, if at all, charities fear.

In 2007 the Labour government diverted £425m from the Big Lottery Fund, which helps small community groups and charities across the UK, to pay for infrastructure on the Olympic Park. A pledge was given that the charities would have the cash returned.

But a memorandum of understanding, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, reveals that a series of agreements has been drawn up to decide who gets first claim on cash from Olympic asset sales – and that charities are not at the front of the queue.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.