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So you have won a prize in the British National Lottery or the European lottery. One of the first decisions all winners make is whether to carry on in their job or not.

Charles Gillion was one of the bus drivers from Corby who each won £3.1 million as members of a lottery syndicate. He had intended to retire later this year but can now do so comfortably as a result of his win.

Sarah Cockings from Tyne and Wear won £3 million in the UK lottery draw in 2005 when she was at university. She has decided to go back to her studies a couple of years later but found that her winnings had enabled her to choose the career she wanted to follow. Sarah wants to become a midwife purely because that is what she wants to do – money no longer is a consideration.

Nicky Cusack of Swindon won £2.49 million in the British National Lottery in 2009 after being diagnosed with cancer. After she completed the therapy to combat her illness however, Nicky couldn’t wait to get back to work.

“I wanted to be normal,” she said, “It is just about being who you want to be. Some people say ‘why is she back? There is no need for her to work.’ No, there isn’t, but it is the company and your friends, that is what makes a working environment. I am quite happy going to work and coming home.”

Of course the first consideration on winning a lottery prize is whether you can afford to give up your job. Chris and Colin Weir of Largs won £161 million in the Eurolottery draw and, like so many who win huge amounts, have found having a job is no longer a necessity. Indeed, if you win that amount of money, managing can be a full-time job in itself!

You may win a smaller prize however and it would then be wise to take professional advice as to whether you can retire or not. Some winners take a holiday instead.

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One of the British National Lottery‘s key supporters of local projects is the Heritage Lottery Fund. Every year they set aside a fund to support schemes that encourage young people to leaner more about the heritage they inherit.

The funding for this Young Roots project is allocated every April, so it is now that the budget for the next twelve months is set. This year the money from the UK lottery draw that has been donated to the fund has increased by £1 million to £4 million.

The Young Roots project has been in existence for 10 years now and grants money of up to £50,000 to projects that help 11 to 25 year olds explore areas as diverse as archeology, social history, historic buildings, natural history and the story of sport, culture and fashion.

The Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund, Dame Jenny Abramsky, says, “As the future custodians of our heritage, it’s vital that we inspire and equip young people with the resources they need to get involved with heritage in the future.”

One project supported by the Young Roots scheme (and so the British National Lottery) was Festival City, a Norwich-based idea designed to give young people the chance to learn and use skills in digital media to create an exhibition charting the history of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. The festival has run from 1772 to the present day and the young participants in the project created an impressive display illustrating the historic churches and venues used in the events. During this project, the youngsters learned new skills from historians, sound designers, journalists and professional photographers to produce an exhibition of photographs and historic documents as well as a podcast, which was shown in the Forum Norwich during July last year.

Clearly the funds from the UK lottery draw and the European lottery is being put to great use in helping protect our heritage for the future.

If you would like to learn more about the Heritage Lottery Fund, please go to their website.

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In the European lottery draw on Friday 16 March this year, a syndicate of bus drivers from Corby in Northamptonshire won the £38 million jackpot.

There were twelve members of the syndicate and they each receive £3.1 million apiece.

Charles Gillion is one of the lucky Eurolottery winners and had planned to retire later this year: clearly he can leave a little earlier now. He and his wife Penelope, a retired cleaner, have been married for 45 years and intend to share their good fortune with their growing family: at present they have no less than three children, ten grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Alex Robertson is in much the same position, having sixteen grandchildren, and he joked his share of the win might not be enough to go round!

The syndicate has been in existence for around three years and their best previous win was in 2011 when they won £212 – £18 each.

The European lottery syndicate organizer, Chris Smith, checked the winning numbers several times at home with his wife, “We couldn’t really believe they all matched,” he said. The claim was placed with Camelot, the lottery administrators in the UK, first thing the next morning.

Understandably none of the syndicate members made it into work the next day. John Noakes, another member, told reporters “You cannot drive a bus packed with seventy people when your mind is on other things, it’s just not safe.”

This was the fourth large win on the European lottery for UK players this year and Nottinghamshire seems particularly favoured. Gareth and Catherine Ball from Mansfield won £40 million on 20 January, Cassey Carrington and Matt Topham from Nottinghamshire won £45 million on 7 February and one player who decided to remain anonymous won £22 million on 2 March. These all follow on from the record £161 million win by Colin and Chris Weir in 2011.

There are nine countries participating in the Eurolottery draw (Austria, Ireland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and Britain) so it is amazing that one country should be so lucky. A spokesperson for the National Lottery said, “The UK is clearly enjoying a run of amazing luck.”

Add to this the fact that more UK millionaires than ever are being created by both the European lottery and the British National Lottery (229 in 2011) and you can see this is a great time to be playing these lotteries.

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The Eurolottery draw has changed the lives of a delightful young couple from Stapleford in Nottingham.

Cassey Carrington, a supervisor at Iceland, and Matt Topham, a painter and decorator in his father’s business, are both aged 22 and won the European lottery jackpot by playing online.

Cassey felt her luck was in when her store won a sales incentive of £10,000, which the staff divided among themselves. As a result she decided to see if her luck would extend to the lottery.

She bought a ticket for the European lottery draw on Friday 3 February 2012 but won nothing. There was still a balance on her online account so she used that to buy tickets for both the British National Lottery the next Saturday and the Eurolottery draw on Tuesday.

The Tuesday Eurolottery ticket scooped her a stunning £45,160,170.50.

Cassey has only played the lottery a few times and has already won two prizes of £10. The European lottery jackpot win has come at the right time for the couple however.

That Tuesday both Matt’s computer and their washing machine broke down. They were already budgeting for their forthcoming wedding and were frustrated by their bad luck. Cassey then decided to check the lottery numbers.

She ran though the European lottery numbers and could not believe what she saw so she rang a friend so he could check too. They all got very excited but refused to celebrate before they spoke to the lottery administrators the next day. Like so many lottery winners, Cassey and Matt got little sleep that night.

The couple have great plans for the money. The first priority is to treat family and friends. Cassey’s father has always wanted a Porsche and so the couple plans to treat him to one as well as pay off her parents’ mortgage. Having struggled with a mortgage themselves, Matt and Cassey will help friends get a house and Matt’s father will be able to retire.

The couple will treat themselves too. Cassey says, “There are just so many hobbies that I never thought I would ever be able to do so to go from having nothing as a hobby to being able to do anything is just crazy.” They plan to design and build their own dream house and have watched Top Gear to identify the cars they want; Cassey has put an Aston Martin at the top of her list. Travel is a burn for the two as well and several destinations have been discussed, including visiting Monaco for the Formula 1 Grand Prix.

And their wedding day will be a lot more lavish, thanks to the European lottery.
 
 

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