The Saturday List #22 - How I will spend my lottery winnings

In about five minutes, I am going to go down the road and buy a lottery ticket. Tonight I am going to win the jackpot. If the amount is £2.5 million pounds, this is what I will spend it on.

For each of my close family and friends, I will give them £7,000 each. This is the amount you can give without incurring tax. I will follow my Dads advice and give them enough to do something they will really enjoy, but not enough to make them lazy. As to my friends, the ones who would get the dosh are the ones who've stood by me through thick and thin.

For the commercial, business and charity, I will give each of the charities I am associated with £50,000. I will completely refurbish the older studio buildings at Mill Hill Music Complex and I will set up the Barnet Eye as a proper online magazine, with reporters and staff. They will all be people who are in one of the following criteria

1. NEET youngsters
2. People with disabalities
3. People with a passion for social justice.

The first person I will employ (assuming she would actually do it) would be Vicki Morris (of the Citizen Barnet blog) as editor. Of all the people in Barnet, I would trust Vicki to do the right thing editorially. I would employ Charles Honderick to make the film we could have made about Barnet, if we had a proper budget and state of the art equipment.

I'd buy Friern Library and put it into a proper trust, so that we couldn never have the situation again where a greedy council shits on the people of Barnet. I'd have a reversion clause, so that if the people of Barnet decided they no longer wanted a library, then my family or descendents would get it back. That would stop greedy buggers going for a land grab.

As for my luxuries, these are pretty self explanatory. The party I would have, would be the party I always wanted to have. I'd get my mate Boz Boorer to put together a band featuring Paul Cook and Steve Jones, with Lee Thompson of Madness on sax. I'd get up and jam "God Save the Queen" with them.

I've always wanted a property with a view of the sea and Brighton is my favourite seaside place in the world. It is as British as it can be.

The Saturday List Gifts Number Amount Total Brothers & Sisters 6 7,000 42000 Nephews & nieces 18 7,000 126000 Children 3 7,000 21000 In laws 2 7,000 14000 Staff 9 7,000 63000 Friends 16 7,000 112000 commercial, business and charity Studio refit  1 200,000 200000 Share Foundation 1 50,000 50000 The Passage 1 50,000 50000 Donation to HCPT 1 50,000 50000 Buy Friern Barnet Library for community 1 430,000 430000 Make a film about Barnet with a proper budget 1 30,000 30000 Set up foundation to make the Barnet Eye blog into a commercially successful online magazine with staff 1 500,000 500000 Luxurys Studio flat in Brighton 1 700,000 700000 Aston Martin DB6 1 40,000 40000 Family Holiday in Australia 1 20,000 20000 Redecorate the House 1 30,000 30000 Slap up Night out for all friends and familty 1 10,000 10000 Trip to see Steve Miller band in Las Vegas 1 2,000 2000 Get Married in the Elvis chapel in Las Vegas 1 10,000 10000 2500000

Now all I have to do is win.