FAQs

You must reside in Great Britain and be aged 18 or over to buy or sell St Giles raffle tickets.

There are 34 total cash prizes available to be won:

• 1st prize: £5,000 (1 available)
• 2nd prize: £1,000 (1 available)
• 3rd prize: £500 (2 available)
• 4th prize: £100 (5 available)
• 5th prize: £10 (25 available)

Prizes are paid to the ticket purchaser.

• Closing date: 13th January 2027
• Draw date: 27th January 2027

We reserve the right to defer the draw date if unforeseen circumstances and resultant processing delays prevent the draw taking place on this date.

Payments received after the draw closing date will be treated as a donation.

Winners will be notified shortly after the draw.

Winning numbers will be published on this website and in the local press where possible.

Winners may be invited to take part in publicity.

All postal and online responses received by 11th November 2026 will be entered into an additional fast reply draw to win a £25 gift voucher (10 in total).

Based on purchasing 10 tickets in our raffle, the chance of winning a prize in our main draw is 1 in 172.

All the profits from our raffle are paid to St Giles Hospice (Registered Charity 509014) after we have deducted costs and prizes, some of which are kindly donated back to the hospice.

In our Winter Raffle 2025, we were able to pass an amazing £40,963 over to St Giles Hospice, providing vital support for local people and their families living with a terminal illness.

This equates to 64.6% of our ticket sale income, after the deduction of prizes (12.6%) and expenses (22.8%).

We always try to keep our costs to a minimum to ensure we raise as much as we can for the hospice and the 64.6% paid to St Giles is much more than the legal minimum of 20% of proceeds for a charity raffle like ours.

Responsible gambling means staying in control of how much time and money we spend on gambling. Responsible gambling means not spending more money or time than we can reasonably afford on gambling activities, keeping in mind all our other responsibilities in life.

The Gambling Commission has published codes of practice which help to ensure gambling is operated in a responsible manner. For further information on the Gambling Commission and the Gambling Act, please visit gamblingcommission.gov.uk

As part of our commitment to responsible gambling, we have increased the minimum age required to enter our raffles from the legal minimum of 16 to 18.

Please gamble responsibly. For help and support with gambling, please visit GambleAware.org or call 0808 802 0133.

If you would like to take out a gambling self-exclusion from our weekly lottery and raffle, please contact the Supporter Care team on 01543 434020 and state that you wish to be self-excluded.

We are using Sterling Management Centre Ltd, a trusted third-party administrator, to support the secure and efficient administration of our raffles and weekly lottery.

Sterling Management Centre Ltd works with a range of hospices and national charities and is licensed and regulated in Great Britain by The Gambling Commission under account number 3137. All proceeds from this raffle will support St Giles Hospice.