You've won the lottery...

[Luckydog7]

Used the money to solve world hunger, bought your dream house and car, made everyone else you know rich, Now, how do you (productively) spend the rest of your life?

After you have done all the initial (boring and sensible) spending what business idea, dream, mad scheme or empire will you spend the rest of the (presumably unlimited) cash and time working on?

A sustainability-focused think tank. 100%.

I did win the lottery last night - £5.......

I would want to provide affordable subsidised homes for single mums and open loads of refuges for abused women with lovely playgrounds behind each one for the kids.
And I'd rescue more cats.

I’d wipe the NHS out, take it all out from under its feet, start my own one and hire all the nurses, doctors and base staff, leaving all the fat and wealthy cats jobless who take all the money and do hardly any work at all.

@JenniferAllisonPhillipaSue (thanks for the ear worm btw) with unlimited cash you could invest in giant waterproof covers and climate control like the Eden Project.

My dream - to invest in a kind of flexible support service for families which children with all kinds of additional needs.

This would include a rapid response unit. So when a child was experiencing a mental health crisis, instead of phoning CAMHS and waiting two years, help would be available immediately. Whether that was support along a diagnosis pathway, or a family support worker able to provide genuine family support not criticism, or a heavy squad to go into school with the child until proper support in place there, they’d do it all. It would be support first, ask questions later. Put things in place in the longer term once the crisis was over. Some families might just need a few weeks, or some ongoing counselling. Some children might actually need a support worker for many hours a day for many weeks, to enable them to feel safe and parents to take stock.

Not just mental health but similar support to families with a disabled child. So a parent could ring up and a carer or nurse could be on the doorstep very swiftly, whether for a couple of hours do a parent can rest, or a couple of weeks for a serious illness, providing either care to the child or emotional/practical support to the parents or siblings. Bits and pieces of this service already exist but I’d combine it all so you could just phone and know help was coming, and again work out what was actually needed longer term once the immediate short term was sorted.

And there would be a legal division which would help with EHCP tribunals, with DLA and PIP, it would advise and represent families against social services challenging lack of provision, and against the NHS challenging failed CHC assessments. Etc.

So essentially they’d not replace any of the statutory services but they would plug the gaps, providing the support needed until statutory provision was in place, providing the means to get that support in place, and filling in things statutory provision can’t provide.

And it would be available to all, not reliant on having the right diagnosis (or any diagnosis) first.

You did say unlimited funds didn’t you?

After making sure all my family were taken care of and I'd donated to certain charities I'd move to North Somercotes and buy a property then I would give a sum of money to mablethorpe seal sanctuary and then also a huge sum of money to Radcliffe donkey sanctuary and would volunteer there helping look after the absolutely adorable donkeys, as you can tell it's something I've thought about lots

I'd be a theatre 'angel'. I'd love to invest in shows and go to funding lunches and first nights. I'd also fund students at drama school.

Given that almost, if not all of us would do something altruistic, I wonder why people who actually win the lottery don’t. Well nothing ground breaking anyway!

Because it’s easier to say you would than to actually do it, as shown in many different contexts.
Plus the op’s scenario is a bit extreme- you have already made everyone rich and solved world hunger which even the biggest Euromillions winners probably couldn’t afford to do.

Also probably quite a few of them do do philanthropic things but they will be advised against advertising it too much to prevent being besieged with requests. I know a few people who I know to have given large amounts of money away and none of them want it generally known, to the point of making me promise not to tell anyone in one case.

Probably not the most moral thing but I'd name myself financially secure first. So I'd need to have probably at least £2m just for that and the first half, maybe more? Even if I ignored the bit about ending world hunger.

I've always said I become a kind of granting wishes fairy. Bounce into a hospital, order whatever new equipment they needed and poof here's a brand new one, send families in need a specialist nurse 24-7 or set up a huge but not money based social care network so no one was ever without support

Build genuinely affordable housing. Have good relationships with tenants. Use the “profit” to build more affordable housing and after 5 years of being decent tenants gift the property to the good tenants.

Build eco homes semi underground grass roofs solar panels/windmills/hydroelectric power primarily depending on the area with special toilets that are eco friendly greencones for food waste in garden as standard for rent at slightly below lha rates so people on benefits would get the full amount paid for them

I have this mad dream that I'd buy a load of little houses or flats that people could apply to live in for 3 years and at the end of the 3 years, get all their rent back to use as a deposit for a house sale

But I'd also help Jennifer with her brilliant idea!

@OurChristmasMiracle

Build genuinely affordable housing. Have good relationships with tenants. Use the “profit” to build more affordable housing and after 5 years of being decent tenants gift the property to the good tenants.

yessss similar to mine!