National Lottery Olympic funding hits £375m half-way mark

The National Lottery has hit the half-way mark in its target to raise £750m for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Money raised from specially-designed lottery games has hit £375m, officials confirmed today.

The figure represents a £35m rise over almost two weeks, with National Lottery placing its Olympic funding figure at £339.1m on 14 November.

National Lottery will contribute a total of almost £2.2bn to the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.