I'm at about 10 or 11 million to charity ...I don't keep a tally in case Paddy finds it

Lottery gran's love of giving cash away

- JEREMY ARMSTRONG

LOTTERY winner Frances Connolly has a huge annual budget for charity donations.

But the kind-hearted gran, 55, just cannot stick to the figure she agreed with her husband Patrick, 57.

Frances has already handed out around £11million this year roughly the amount she had agreed to keep within over the next decade.

On her donations in 2022, she said: "I'm at about 10 or 11 million paid directly to charity, but I don't keep a tally in case Paddy finds it.

"He gave me an annual budget for good causes. We set one this year, I agreed to it. I've already spent all the money. It was to take us up to 2032. We might have to revise it!

The couple scooped £115m on the EuroMillions on New Year's Day in 2019 and quickly gave away more than half of it. The initial £60m went to family and good causes.