The Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice Lottery is a draw which takes place on Friday every week. Each entry gives you the chance of winning one of our fantastic cash prizes. Each entry costs just £1.

A lottery is a fun and engaging way for us to raise funds. The lottery is promoted and run to help raise essential funds for Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice. 100% of the profits from the lottery go to Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice.

Yes, every £1 entry has an equal chance of winning, and the winning numbers are drawn at random.

• £750 guaranteed first prize
• £150 rollover second prize – increasing by £150 for each week it isn’t won, up to a maximum value of £10,050, when it becomes guaranteed to be won
• £10 guaranteed third prizes for 5 winners

You can buy entries through our website by setting up a Direct Debit lottery subscription, which is the easiest way to ensure you’re entered into the draw each week.

To join online by Direct Debit please click here. Alternatively, you can telephone us on 0370 241 3237 and we’ll send you an entry form which allows Direct Debit or one-off cheque payments.

The monthly cost breakdown of £4.34 for playing the lottery is based on paying £1 per week over a 52-week year. Direct Debits are only collected once a month, and sometimes there will be five weeks in a month and the additional £0.34p is to build up credit to cover the fifth week on the five-week months.

Yes, you can have up to 5 entries per weekly draw per person. Each £1 entry buys you one chance of winning in our lottery.

Unfortunately, we cannot claim gift aid on funds raised through the lottery. We can however claim gift aid on donations, to make a donation to Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice click the button below.

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These are chosen randomly and will be your numbers for the duration of your membership of our lottery. When you enter the lottery, you will be sent your unique numbers. The odds of winning are fair and equal for every number.

Within 21 days of registration you will receive a confirmation letter or email which contains details of your unique lottery number(s) and the date of the first draw your tickets are entered into. You will be entered into the draw when you have monies available and you will continue to be entered into the draw as long as you have monies available against your lottery number.

Following registration it is necessary to complete a number of administrative processes which include verifying your payment details with your bank, claiming the funds from your bank account and the funds being received.

When taking payments Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice use a secure payments system provided by our External Lottery Manager. This ensures your details are taken in a safe and secure manner when you enter the lottery online.

We advise you to call our helpline on 0370 241 3237 and we will be able to assist you and confirm whether or not a payment was taken successfully.

You can play our lottery for as long as you wish. Following successful payment you will continue to be entered into the draw as long as you have monies available against your lottery number.

Once the draw has taken place, winners are notified by post and the numbers are published on this website.

If you are a winner, we will send your winning cheque straight to you at your address – there’s no need for you to claim.

If you would like us to re-send your lottery numbers to you, please contact us.

From March 23 to April 24 the proceeds of the Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice lottery were £228,829. 64% of this was spent on our good cause work. 21% was spent on prizes and 16% on expenses.

- Figures based on average during April 2023 to March 2024

In the Christmas 2023 raffle Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice raised £11,880. 51% of this was spent on our good cause work, 15% was spent on prizes and 34% on expenses.

There is a 1 in 1005 chance of winning a prize in the Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice Lottery every week.

- Accurate as of March 2024.

Also twice a year you can play our raffles. Average odds of winning based on 23/24 figures:

• Spring Raffle: 1 in 3219.
• Christmas Raffle: 1 in 1485.

As members of the Hospice Lotteries Association (HLA) we are committed to using our lottery to raise important and vital funds for our hospice in a responsible way. As members of the HLA we support:

• Be Gamble Aware
• GamCare

Players in difficulty with gambling are encouraged to seek help from these organisations and to talk to us if self-exclusion is required. Self-exclusion can be requested by contacting the Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice Lottery Responsible Persons Mr Gareth Pierce & Nicola O’Dowd on 01484 411040, via email lottery@forgetmenotchild.co.uk or in writing at Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice, Russell House, Fell Greave Road, Huddersfield, HD2 1NH. !!!!!!!!! needs new URL !!!!!!!!!!! Alternatively to download a self–exclusion form click here.

To speak to someone about a gambling problem contact the Gamble Aware confidential helpline on 0808 8020 133 or visit their website www.gambleaware.co.uk for further information.

If you have any concerns, please get in touch with us on our lottery helpline on 0370 241 3237 or our hospice lottery office 01484 411 040 and we will endeavour to answer any queries you may have. All complaints and disputes will be dealt with in accordance with our lottery complaints policy, a copy of which is available at the Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice rules page. In the event a complaint or dispute cannot be resolved, it will be referred to arbitration using the Independent Betting Adjudication Service www.ibas-uk.com

Yes, we operate in compliance with all Gambling Commission (the UK regulatory body concerned with lotteries) requirements and the lottery is administered by a certified External Lottery Manager. For further information please see our rules page.

For questions about the lottery or your lottery membership, please call our Lottery Helpline: 0370 241 3237 (Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm).

If you would like to contact the hospice please call our office on 01484 411 040 or you can email us at lottery@forgetmenotchild.co.uk

Alternatively, please fill in our contact form.