{"id":88947,"date":"2025-05-10T02:33:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88947\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T02:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:33:17","slug":"relaxing-lottery-rules-in-ni-would-hand-charities-multimillion-funding-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88947\/","title":{"rendered":"Relaxing lottery rules in NI \u2018would hand charities multimillion funding boost\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/09151258-267386eb-f7c6-4daf-90b7-8cccc23ea5a7.jpg\" width=\"3780\" height=\"2940\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-eqUAAy kRUyJB\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Today North Antrim MLA Sian Mulholland launched a public consultation on her Assembly Members\u2019 Bill proposing a change in the law to allow expansion of charity lottery fundraising in Northern Ireland.  The launch took place at Amy\u2019s House in Belfast, which is run by Young Lives vs Cancer, one of the charities that would benefit. It provides families with free accommodation to remain close to their children during cancer treatment at the nearby Belfast City Hospital. Pictured at the launch from left are: Malcolm Fleming, Director of Public Affairs, People\u2019s Postcode Lottery, who support the Bill, Sian Mulholland MLA (centre), and Rachel Kirby-Rider, Chief Executive, Young Lives vs Cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today North Antrim MLA Sian Mulholland launched a public consultation on her Assembly Members\u2019 Bill proposing a change&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[2378,5187,14982,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-88947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-european","10":"tag-national-lottery","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114481201537003810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}