LotterySK has hit a winning streak with no fewer than eight lucky ticket holders scooping prizes of £250 since the start of December.
A ticket supporting the LotterySK Community Fund, which provides grants to local projects, kicked off the purple patch with the first £250 win in South Kesteven District Council’s community lottery.
Two weeks later, two supporters of Blackstones Junior Football Club in Stamford each scooped £250 to brighten Christmas.
Supporters of Inspire+, 2nd Stamford Town Scouts, Stamford’s The Mutts Nutts, Grantham Museum and Caythorpe and Ancaster Medical Equipment Trust then continued the winning run through to the end of January.
Their good fortune brings LotterySK’s total prize money enjoyed by ticket holders to £113,425.00 since its launch in 2018.
January also saw the latest good cause signing up, with amateur musical theatre company Grantham Operatic Society hoping that its supporters will buy tickets to help with the cost of putting on productions.
Grantham Operatic Society, one of the town’s longest running community groups, stages its main annual production at the Guildhall Arts Centre, along with concerts, smaller events and carol singing at Christmas.
There is currently an additional incentive for supporters to buy tickets, with the chance to win a £1,000 Sainsbury's Gift Voucher as an add-on bonus. Any ticket bought before 26 February will stand a chance of winning.
Nominated good causes receive 50p for every £1 ticket sold - more than twice the amount raised by the National Lottery – with the chance of a £25,000 top prize in the weekly draw.
Another 10p from each ticket sale goes to the SK Community Fund, meaning that sixty per cent of each £1 ticket goes to support good causes in South Kesteven. Every ticket has a one in 50 chance of winning.
To buy tickets, or register as a good cause, go to www.lotterysk.co.uk where there is also information and advice for groups wanting help on how to encourage ticket sales.
