Updates

The Health Lottery Foundation updates

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Healthcare IT

Training health & social care charities to unlock the power of AI – CAST

£20,000 has been given to CAST to fund learning resources to help build understanding about AI, through peer learning sessions and small group mentoring

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Project update

Celebrating the work of Support Dogs and Peggy’s birthday!

Training animals (and people) to forge a successful dog-human partnership needs a high level of expertise and funding and we were happy to offer a grant to support this. Support Dogs is a charity that works with dogs and people to offer life-changing support.

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Chronic disease

Tapping House Hospice, Norfolk – supporting people to live out full and joyful lives

Dying Matters Awareness Week (5 May – 11 May) highlighted the stigma about death, dying and grief – something that impacts every one of us. Rest of life care, delivered by hospices will be at the front and centre of conversations during this week.

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Project update

Exams, paid work, loneliness… Student Minds offer support

Going into the final term of the year is a stressful time for students and Student Minds are well-aware of the additional pressure that the build-up to the end of the academic year brings. They believe that no student should be held back by their mental health.

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Project update

Reducing school holiday hunger – Feeding Britain

Over the Easter holidays, many food clubs in the Feeding Britain network ran activity and food programmes to make sure children didn’t go hungry when their school was closed. The Health Lottery Foundation have donated £20,000 to Feeding Britain to allow them to support more families over the school holidays later this year.

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Funding information

£200K of support to 12 charities to improve health & wellbeing

We are delighted to announce the first 12 charities to benefit from grant funding in 2025. Thanks to players of The Health Lottery, £200,000 will now be distributed to make a tangible difference to health and wellbeing across Britain.

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Disability inequity

How to smash stereotypes on World Down Syndrome Day

World Down Syndrome Day is every year in March. It’s an opportunity to smash stereotypes and showcase projects that have worked hard to challenge misconceptions about Down Syndrome. There are hundreds of amazing organisations around the world on a mission to make change.

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Sector information

Pioneering women that changed the health of the nation

On International Woman’s Day we reflect on some amazing women who have influenced the health and wellbeing of people across Britain. Pioneers who have lead change in areas where it has made a huge impact.

Health disparity

Lifestyle matters more than genes, says new study

Research from Oxford Population Health, published in Nature Medicine, reveals that factors like smoking, physical activity, and socioeconomic conditions have a far greater impact on ageing and premature death than genetics.

Preventative care

Reducing cancer risk – promoting small lifestyle changes

The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), who organise Cancer Prevention Action Week, will use their 2025 campaign to focus on the links between alcohol and cancer.