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Teen £1m Lotto Winner Thought She’d Won £70

Posted by admin on Aug-17-2010

Originally posted to the Sky News website on 11 August 2010

David Williams, Sky News Online

An 18-year-old who scooped £1.1m on the lottery has told Sky News she didn’t realise all her lucky numbers had come up.

Stacey Bywater said she was pleased with £70 extra spending money to take on a family holiday to Turkey after spotting only four of her six matching numbers.

The teenager admitted it was only later that her father Gary examined the ticket and found she had won the jackpot.

“I watched the lottery on Saturday night and realised I had some numbers but only thought I had four, which was about £70,” Miss Bywater, from Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, told Sky News.

“Then I realised I had five, which was a bit more. Then when I went to see how much I’d won, my Dad said: ‘I think you need to sit down and check your numbers again because you’ve got the full six.’”

The nursery nurse said she will keep the money in the family – buying a home for her elder sister and giving her parents a deposit to move out of their council house.

But she said she had no plans to jack in her day job after the £1,117,779 windfall.

“I’m going to continue in my career, I work with children and I really enjoy it so I won’t be giving that up, but it’s going to change my life,” she said.
“I can support my family, I can buy a house for my family and make sure they’re all comfortable and they don’t have any money worries, so I’ll just enjoy myself.”

She will still go on the pre-arranged getaway to Turkey, alongside family and friends.

Upon return, the new millionaire pledges to splash some of her cash on a soft-top Mini Cooper.

But she can’t go on a spin just yet – she needs to pass her driving test first.

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a mini cooper yesterday

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Letter Outlining Britain’s First Lottery Up For Auction

Posted by admin on Jun-14-2010

Originally posted to lotterypost.com website.

Published: June 14, 2010, 7:58 am

The British tradition of national lottery has been traced back to the 16th century — when a jackpot of £5,000 was up for grabs and participants had to wait three years to find out if they were winners.

A letter has emerged from Queen Elizabeth I, written in 1566, which gives instructions for collecting money, commanding that persons of ‘good trust’ be entrusted with the prizes.

The letter was written to Sir John Spencer, advising of 400,000 lots, each costing 10 shillings, with prizes to be paid in a combination of gold and merchandise, including tapestries, linens and fine fabrics.

The jackpot of £5,000 is equivalent to £850,000 pounds today (US$1.3 million), and part of the money raised from ticket sales went to good causes, as is the case in today’s lottery.

The letter states: ‘Where we have com[m]anded a ceratine carte of a Lotterie to be published by our Shirif of Countie in the principall townes of the same…’ And continues: ‘…it is expedient to have somme persons appointed of good trust to receave such particular sommes as our subjects shall of their owne free disposition be ready to deliver upon the said lotterie.’

Monies raised, it states, shall be ‘employed to good and publique acts and beneficially for o[u]r Realme and o[u]r Subjects.’

The letter states that out of every pound sterling, Spencer was allowed sixpence to pay the collectors.

It also stated that he was to issue books of numbers and tickets.

As a final incentive to Spencer, for every £500 pounds sent to London, a further 50 shillings was promised to him.

The draw was not held until three years later 1569, due to a lack of support and the logistics in selling the tickets around the country.

This lottery died out but there were similar draws held between 1750 and 1826.

The letter, which is signed with Elizabeth’s distinctive flourishing signature, is expected to sell for £20,000 – four times the original jackpot — at auction.

Richard Davie, from International Autograph Auctions, who is selling the letter, said: ‘This letter shows that the idea of a lottery to raise money is nothing new.

‘Tickets were sold and a jackpot was drawn and the money raised was intended for good causes.

‘It was exactly like the one we have today, although they didn’t have scratch cards.

‘This was not an instant success because the draw did not happen until three years after Elizabeth sent her instructions to Sir John Spencer.

‘The letter includes a good blind embossed paper seal and is two pages long with her distinctive, flourishing signature.

‘It is a unique item and highly collectable. It has been put up for sale by a collector and there will be interest from a number of enthusiasts.’

The sale is on Sunday at the Edwardian Radisson Hotel at Heathrow in London.

http://www.lotterypost.com/news/215804

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Lottery Tees Up A £10k Boost For Aberfoyle Church

Posted by admin on Jun-4-2010

Originally posted to the Stirling Observer website.

Jun 4 2010 by Stephen Robertson, Stirling Observer Friday

A CHURCH in Aberfoyle has landed a lottery cash boost of almost £10,000.

St Mary’s Episcopal Church, in Main Street, picked up the £9847 award in the recent round of grants from the National Lottery’s small grants scheme, Awards for All.

It will be put to good use to help improve public safety access and the facilities of the church itself.

Railings will be put in place, an audio and public address system will be installed and stackable chairs will also be bought.

A number of other community groups and charities in and around Stirling were also celebrating after being selected to receive grant funding.

Among these were the Stirling-based Aberlour Child Care Trust, which received a £7251 award.

Elsewhere, The Strathendrick Pipe Band Association were awarded £5,000 to buy equipment that will enable members to attend four major pipe band competitions.

Strathblane Out of School Care Ltd received £4865 for play equipment and summer excursions, and the Braehead and Broomridge Childminding Support Group landed £4715 which will be used to pay for things such as hall and equipment rental, snacks, activities and trips.

ACE Cornton, the community based adult learning project, also got a £4000 award to help develop peer support and mentoring services.



http://www.stirlingobserver.co.uk/stirling-news/local-news-stirling/news-stirling/2010/06/04/lottery-tees-up-a-10k-boost-for-aberfoyle-church-51226-26581928/

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The UK Lottery Draw And Its Contributions To Society

Posted by admin on Jan-27-2010

 

On February 12 2010 entries will close for the UK National Lottery Awards. This scheme searches for the country’s more popular project financed from the lottery fund and highlights an area of the UK lottery draw that tends to be largely overlooked. The awards were launched by television personality Sally Lindsey at the London Transport Museum in the company of volunteers from the Women’s Royal Voluntary Service. This was significant as both the museum and the WRVS have benefited from grants from the British national lottery fund.

 Every week, hopeful lottery players bemoan their lack of success in the UK lottery draw and yet there are many people who win every week – the charities and good causes. 

Since the lottery was launched in 1994, £24 billion has been raised for projects across the country. That means the lottery players raise £25 million every week for diverse areas of need. Each entry into the draw gives 28 pence to charity.  

The UK lottery draw finances movies too.
The UK lottery draw finances movies too.

 

St Davids cathedral in Pembrokeshire was built on the site of a previous church in 1181. It has suffered an earthquake, vandalism by soldiers and constant erosion by the weather. Clearly it has had a long battle for survival. Things were made a little easier recently, however, by a grant from the National Lottery, which enabled the south cloister and north porch to be rebuilt. 

Rowan Gate Primary School in Northamptonshire received £ 50000 from the lottery, this time via an ITV network television programme, ‘The People’s Millions.’ The money is being used to update the school’s physiotherapy pool and make it more accessible for the disabled.

 The UK lottery draw also funded a series of projects in recognition of the role played by servicemen in the Second World War. The Heroes Return scheme gave £17 million to enable veterans to return to the places in which they fought, including 58 Royal Navy veterans who visited Singapore and Penang. 

But this project goes further. Home Front Recall provided grants of between £500 and £20000 for schemes that commemorated the events and people of the Second World War. Also the Their Past Your Future project provides school children with opportunities to study the war and meet the veterans.

 In the 15 years the UK lottery has been in existence, it has made a major impact on many areas of British society. Twenty eight percent of the grants have been injected into the most deprived areas of the country with great results. Although it can be too easy to see the lottery purely in terms of the winning and losing of money, there is no doubt that its effects are more deep and positive than first appear.

 



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UK Lottery Draw – 7 Reasons Why Elottery Is Your Best Route In

Posted by admin on Jan-24-2010

 

The economic situation around the world is still uncertain so it would hardly seem to be the time to be starting a business. However, in times like these some businesses tend to do better as people with bills to pay consider other options. 

Curiously, lotteries can represent a reasonable investment of time and money if approached in the right way. There is a vast market of people who, not confident enough in their abilities, are prepared to play a lottery every week. In the UK 70% of the population already play regularly. 

Of course, a lottery is still a lottery (you are more likely to be hit by lightning than win the jackpot) but, if you join a syndicate, the odds are reduced substantially. 

Sure, you are still unlikely to win the big one but the point of a syndicate is you are much more likely to win something regularly from the smaller prizes. With the rocky tate of the economy, it has even been suggested that investing in lotteries actually begins to look as attractive as stock market investing. 

Perhaps the most enticing lottery syndicate group at present is the Elottery business. Started in 2002 by Tom Brodie and Len Fitzgerald, Elottery plays the UK lottery draw, the European lottery and others and now covers 127 different countries around the world. 

Joining the Elottery syndicates and business is attractive for seven reasons: 

1. The model uses a mathematical system employing syndicates of 49 members, which improves the chances of winning a prize in the lottery by an astonishing 733% in the UK lottery draw and 3600% in the Euro millions.

2. It covers not only the UK Lottery draw and the European lottery but the Spanish Superdraw and the El Gordo scheme too.

3. Once you build a syndicate of players you earn a commission every time a member plays the lottery. This means you can build a regular ongoing income.

4. Full support is given by the company including payment processing, marketing support online, promotional material, customer support and email marketing campaigns – all handled for you.

5. Full training is also provided on the website and personal support and regular online and offline conferences also available. Bear in mind a good business can be successfully built offline as well as online.

6. There are other unexpected benefits to be found too. There is a ‘Grab-A-Grand’ draw for £1000 twice a week. The interesting twist to this is the person who introduced the winner also gets £1000. Also activities within the business earn ‘Golden Ticket’ points leading to regular draws for several valuable prizes and an annual draw for a new car. As the business grows these prizes are likely to grow.

7. The business is free to join. 

With an eight-year track record, Elottery has proved itself as the leading online source to lead the lottery programme into the Internet market. Whether you are considering simply playing the UK national lottery and the European lottery or starting a business, the Elottery syndicates are proving to be the best choice.



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