PODCAST TRANSCRIPT

My name’s Peter Ainsworth. I’m Chair of the UK Big Lottery Fund, and my hope for this year is, first of all that’s it’s not as bad as I think it’s likely to be - I think it’s going to be a very difficult year.

My hope as far as BIG is concerned is that we can continue despite the Government’s pressure on our costs, despite the fact that we’re losing some of money back to the other good causes, we can continue to deliver really high quality services.

Demand for what we do has never been higher that it is – it’s only going to grow this year, and our job is to continue to make life better for those communities and people most in need in times which are going to be very testing for them, and very testing for us.

But I’m confident that we can do that.