This month, the National Lottery is celebrating it’s 30th birthday. This marks three whole decades of changing lives across the UK. In that time, players of the national lottery have banked a staggering £94 billion pound in prizes. Furthermore, more than 7,200 millionaires have been made since in launched in 1994. As well as that, the National Lottery has reportedly raised over £49 billion for Good causes, with over 690,000 individual grants having been made across the arts, sports, heritage and local community sectors.
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00:00Could you just take me behind the curtain for a minute and say I've just won the lottery?
00:05What happens now?
00:06Well, you're probably sat at home, you know, checking your tickets and you ring the number
00:11on the back of the ticket and you get through to a call centre, they take your details and
00:15they pass them over to my team and we call you back.
00:18And that phone call is really interesting because actually there's two parts of it.
00:21One is, you know, talking through the process and what bank details you've got and what
00:26ID you've got.
00:27But actually the really, really important part is dealing with someone going through
00:31a huge amount of shock, you know, and really sort of getting to understand how they are
00:36and who they told and what they fancy doing.
00:39And then we come and see you normally a few days after that phone call, we complete the
00:44paperwork and pay the funds into your bank account within two working days of that meeting.
00:48So that's the logistics of getting the money over to you.
00:52But actually that's just the start of it.
00:54Yeah, as I said, we would typically chat to you about what your next steps are, what your
00:59next plans are.
01:00You know, do you plan on telling lots of people, not telling anyone?
01:05We make sure you have good access to legal advice and financial advice.
01:08We normally see you a few weeks later with a really good solicitor and financial expert
01:12who are there to help you as well.
01:14Some advice which is always given to winners when they first hear about their Lottery win
01:18is to take their time and do nothing in haste.
01:21It's suggested that they take a holiday so as to allow the news to sink in.
01:26It's also been found that winners are often in deep shock in the initial days after a
01:30Lottery win, but that family and friends play a vital role in grounding.
01:35We know is that actually, overwhelmingly, the population are really, really conservative
01:40because actually if you have the big shock of coming into money, the first thing you
01:44need to do is make sure you don't lose that, you know, so people really do take their time
01:49and they don't do anything quickly.
01:51Now more than ever actually, to be honest with you, the current generation Lottery winners
01:55are more conservative than they've ever been.