News release
Home-Start to benefit from Britain's new lottery
May 2006
Home-Start and the families it supports are to benefit from a new, weekly national lottery. Called monday - the charities lottery, the new lottery aims to raise £150 million a year for registered charities, making it one of the largest charitable fundraisers in the country. And for the first time it is the players who decide which charity gets their cash.
Home-Start is one of 70 national charities that will benefit, and money raised through the lottery will benefit parents and their children in 200 communities across Britain.
For every pound spent with monday, 30p goes direct to the charity chosen by the player.
monday has also joined up with 69 other British charities including Barnardos, The British Red Cross, St John Ambulance, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Sense, Shelter and WWF. Each of them will be able to decide how to use the money raised on their behalf as it is unrestricted funding.
The first monday draw is May 8th at 8 o'clock and every Monday thereafter. monday is run by Chariot plc on behalf of its charity partners.
Vivien Waterfield, Home-Start's director of fundraising and communications says, "This is a fantastic new opportunity for us to raise money to continue our work. It costs around £1,000 to support a family with a volunteer for one year. We have been very successful at bidding for money from the National Lottery before, and that has supported an enormous amount of Home-Start's work across the UK. monday will be very welcome extra funding to help continue and extend our work across the UK.
To make monday a fairer for players and charities there are some clever twists to normal lottery play:
· There will be two jackpot draws instead of one. So if people don't win in the first draw, they can still win in the second
· Because matching all six numbers is near impossible, the player/s with the nearest match to the six winning numbers will get the jackpot
· Because roll-overs don't seem fair, there are none - so there are guaranteed jackpot winners every week
· Rather than giving crazy amounts of money to one person, monday's lottery will give bigger cash prizes for matching 3, 4 and 5 numbers.
There's also no chance of losing your ticket and no last minute rushes to the newsagent - as monday is played online at www.playmonday.com.
Ends
For more information about monday please contact: Charlotte Speedy 0207 861 2486/ 07976 251409 Claire Hook 0207 861 2452 / 07958 911680
Home-Start press contact Annie O'Brian
Notes to editors
Home-Start is a thirty two-year old national charity that recruits and trains volunteers to befriend and support families with children under five by visiting them in their own homes. Volunteers help families for anything from a couple of months to a number of years in situations as varied as isolation, physical or mental illness, bereavement, multiple births, or simply finding parenthood difficult to cope with. We have 11,000 home-visiting volunteers supporting nearly 31,000 families and more than 68,000 children through 337 local schemes across the whole of the UK, and in British Forces bases in Germany and Cyprus.
monday: the charities lottery
How to play
You can play monday online at "http://www.playmonday.com"
The draw will take place every week on a Monday at 8pm You can choose your numbers, choose your charities, how much you want to play and for how many weeks If you have an email address monday will automatically tell you if you win. If you've played by subscription, don't have an email address and have won a jackpot, we'll contact you by post or phone The winning numbers will be published on "http://www.playmonday.com" or you can call 0870 77 44 213 to find out which numbers were drawn Winners' hotline: 0870 77 44 443. monday - the charities lottery, is run by an External Lottery Manager, Sisson Marketing International and is promoted by each of the 70 charity partners. Chariot (UK) plc retails and markets the tickets. All money monday raises for its charity partners will be in the form of unrestricted funding enabling them to use the money according to their organisation's individual and immediate needs. This differs from National Lottery funding which is given as restricted funding, something charities can find inflexible and limiting. Each pound played will be divided as follows: 30p will go directly to the players' chosen charity 55p will go into the prize pool to fund weekly prizes 15p goes into the development of new products, additional prizes and operational costs. The monday lottery is regulated by the Gambling Commission and adheres to its code of practice. The lotteries are open to anyone who is resident in Great Britain, has a UK bank account and is 18 years old or over.
monday's charity partners are:
Acorns Children's Hospice
Action Medical Research
AMBER
Army Benevolent Fund
Arthritis Research Campaign
ASBAH
Assoc of Children's Hospices
Barnardo's
Big Issue Foundation
Born Free Foundation
Brain & Spine Foundation
Breast Cancer Campaign
British Heart Foundation
British Red Cross
Cancerbackup
Care International
Chase Hospice
Child Brain Injury Trust
Children in Crisis
Children in Scotland
CLIC Sargent Cancer Care
Counsel and Care
Crisis
DebRA
Enham
Fairbridge
Family Holiday Assoc
for dementia
Help the Hospices
Home Start
Jubilee Sailing Trust
Macmillan Cancer Relief
Marie Curie Cancer Care
Mencap
Meningitis Trust
Mental Health Foundation
Motor Neurone Disease Association
MS International Federation
MS Resource Centre
MS Society
National Autistic Society
National Deaf Childrens Society
Orbis UK
PDSA
People and Planet
Queen Elizabeth's Foundation
Rainbow Trust Children's Charity
Rethink
RNID
Roy Castle Lung Cancer
Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services
Samaritans
Scope
Seafarer's UK
Sense
Shelter
Shooting Star Children's Hospice
Sight Savers
Sound Seekers - The Commonwealth Society for the Deaf
SportsAid
St John Ambulance
Talking Newspaper Association
The Prostate Cancer Charity
Trees for Cities
UK Coalition of People Living with HIV and AIDS
WAR CHILD
WellChild
Whizz-Kidz
Wooden Spoon
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Home-Start and the families it supports are to benefit from a new, weekly national lottery. Called monday - the charities lottery, the new lottery aims to raise £150 million a year for registered charities, making it one of the largest charitable fundraisers in the country. And for the first time it is the players who decide which charity gets their cash.
Home-Start is one of 70 national charities that will benefit, and money raised through the lottery will benefit parents and their children in 200 communities across Britain.
For every pound spent with monday, 30p goes direct to the charity chosen by the player.
monday has also joined up with 69 other British charities including Barnardos, The British Red Cross, St John Ambulance, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Sense, Shelter and WWF. Each of them will be able to decide how to use the money raised on their behalf as it is unrestricted funding.
The first monday draw is May 8th at 8 o'clock and every Monday thereafter. monday is run by Chariot plc on behalf of its charity partners.
Vivien Waterfield, Home-Start's director of fundraising and communications says, "This is a fantastic new opportunity for us to raise money to continue our work. It costs around £1,000 to support a family with a volunteer for one year. We have been very successful at bidding for money from the National Lottery before, and that has supported an enormous amount of Home-Start's work across the UK. monday will be very welcome extra funding to help continue and extend our work across the UK.
To make monday a fairer for players and charities there are some clever twists to normal lottery play:
· There will be two jackpot draws instead of one. So if people don't win in the first draw, they can still win in the second
· Because matching all six numbers is near impossible, the player/s with the nearest match to the six winning numbers will get the jackpot
· Because roll-overs don't seem fair, there are none - so there are guaranteed jackpot winners every week
· Rather than giving crazy amounts of money to one person, monday's lottery will give bigger cash prizes for matching 3, 4 and 5 numbers.
There's also no chance of losing your ticket and no last minute rushes to the newsagent - as monday is played online at www.playmonday.com.
Ends
For more information about monday please contact: Charlotte Speedy 0207 861 2486/ 07976 251409 Claire Hook 0207 861 2452 / 07958 911680
Home-Start press contact Annie O'Brian
Notes to editors
Home-Start is a thirty two-year old national charity that recruits and trains volunteers to befriend and support families with children under five by visiting them in their own homes. Volunteers help families for anything from a couple of months to a number of years in situations as varied as isolation, physical or mental illness, bereavement, multiple births, or simply finding parenthood difficult to cope with. We have 11,000 home-visiting volunteers supporting nearly 31,000 families and more than 68,000 children through 337 local schemes across the whole of the UK, and in British Forces bases in Germany and Cyprus.
monday: the charities lottery
How to play
You can play monday online at "http://www.playmonday.com"
The draw will take place every week on a Monday at 8pm You can choose your numbers, choose your charities, how much you want to play and for how many weeks If you have an email address monday will automatically tell you if you win. If you've played by subscription, don't have an email address and have won a jackpot, we'll contact you by post or phone The winning numbers will be published on "http://www.playmonday.com" or you can call 0870 77 44 213 to find out which numbers were drawn Winners' hotline: 0870 77 44 443. monday - the charities lottery, is run by an External Lottery Manager, Sisson Marketing International and is promoted by each of the 70 charity partners. Chariot (UK) plc retails and markets the tickets. All money monday raises for its charity partners will be in the form of unrestricted funding enabling them to use the money according to their organisation's individual and immediate needs. This differs from National Lottery funding which is given as restricted funding, something charities can find inflexible and limiting. Each pound played will be divided as follows: 30p will go directly to the players' chosen charity 55p will go into the prize pool to fund weekly prizes 15p goes into the development of new products, additional prizes and operational costs. The monday lottery is regulated by the Gambling Commission and adheres to its code of practice. The lotteries are open to anyone who is resident in Great Britain, has a UK bank account and is 18 years old or over.
monday's charity partners are:
Acorns Children's Hospice
Action Medical Research
AMBER
Army Benevolent Fund
Arthritis Research Campaign
ASBAH
Assoc of Children's Hospices
Barnardo's
Big Issue Foundation
Born Free Foundation
Brain & Spine Foundation
Breast Cancer Campaign
British Heart Foundation
British Red Cross
Cancerbackup
Care International
Chase Hospice
Child Brain Injury Trust
Children in Crisis
Children in Scotland
CLIC Sargent Cancer Care
Counsel and Care
Crisis
DebRA
Enham
Fairbridge
Family Holiday Assoc
for dementia
Help the Hospices
Home Start
Jubilee Sailing Trust
Macmillan Cancer Relief
Marie Curie Cancer Care
Mencap
Meningitis Trust
Mental Health Foundation
Motor Neurone Disease Association
MS International Federation
MS Resource Centre
MS Society
National Autistic Society
National Deaf Childrens Society
Orbis UK
PDSA
People and Planet
Queen Elizabeth's Foundation
Rainbow Trust Children's Charity
Rethink
RNID
Roy Castle Lung Cancer
Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services
Samaritans
Scope
Seafarer's UK
Sense
Shelter
Shooting Star Children's Hospice
Sight Savers
Sound Seekers - The Commonwealth Society for the Deaf
SportsAid
St John Ambulance
Talking Newspaper Association
The Prostate Cancer Charity
Trees for Cities
UK Coalition of People Living with HIV and AIDS
WAR CHILD
WellChild
Whizz-Kidz
Wooden Spoon
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