• Question: If you won the lottery, what would you use the money for?

    Asked by alexiareixach to Stuart, Richard, Lauren, katy, Anais on 9 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Lauren Laing

      Lauren Laing answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Depending on the amount of money, I think I would buy a house, I would then help my relatives and make sure they have all the things they need. I would love to travel more, and help some charities which I care a lot about. I certainly wouldn’t want to give up on my job as a scientist; one of the main things in science which is difficult is winning funding to do the science you want to do, so I would use some money to help me do all of the big exciting experiments which are often too expensive to do!

    • Photo: Anais Kahve

      Anais Kahve answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Like Lauren says, it depends on how much I would win. Firstly I would make sure I had enough money to get my lifetime supply of chocolate digestive biscuits! Then I would start my own charity and build a shelter for the homeless in London. Then I would build a school in South Sudan with lots of text books because it has the lowest literacy rate in the world, and if I had any money left over I would build a hospital in Zimbabwe because it spends the lowest amount of money on healthcare in the world.

    • Photo: Stuart Atkinson

      Stuart Atkinson answered on 17 Mar 2016:

      I would give most of it to charity – there are so many deserving causes where I could make a difference, especially to my local community. I would make sure some of it went into promoting science in schools but allowing kids to see experiments they would never normally see at school. I would help all my family where they needed it, use a little of it to continue my research, and then I would start my own cattery with whatever was left over!

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