The umbrella organisation for charities is urging groups that work with children and young people to take part in a major consultation on the Big Lottery Fund, now the main source of cash for the community and voluntary sector, to ensure they don't lose out in the future.
The warning comes after a National Audit Office report revealed there is more than 2.7bn in unspent lottery money. It called on distributors to speed up the payment of grants and said they could easily commit a further 450m to "good causes".
A spokesman for the Big Lottery Fund, which has 35m unspent, said much of that sum was the result of award recipients not claiming money on time due to delays in getting their projects off the ground.
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