Lottery Gets Green Light: Join Us For Our Official Launch Event

BPRCVS is delighted to announce the launch of Helping Hands Lottery, an exciting new fundraising initiative for good causes in our local communities. The lottery will be a great way for people to support local good causes and get the chance to win fabulous cash prizes!  

Click 'read more' to discover how to sign up for our upcoming launch event.​

Leading lottery management company, Gatherwell, has been appointed by BPRCVS to run the scheme, having already launched similar lotteries elsewhere. Leading lottery management company, Gatherwell, has been appointed by Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale CVS to operate the lottery, having successfully launched similar lotteries throughout the UK.

Nigel Atkinson, Gatherwell's General Manager, said: "We are delighted that Gatherwell has been awarded the opportunity to deliver Helping Hands Lottery. We're looking forward to working with BPRCVS to raise funds for many amazing good causes in Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale”.

When the lottery launches in just a few weeks' time, people will be able to purchase tickets online and support the good cause of their choice. Tickets will cost £1 each. The weekly draw has a fantastic jackpot of £25,000, with other prizes being £2,000, £250 and £25. 
 
Local good causes will be able to register to raise funds through the Helping Hands Lottery and keep 50% from every ticket they sell. A further 10% from every ticket will go into a Central Fund that will be distributed to more good causes, with the remainder being put towards prizes, operating costs and VAT. It's a no risk option because it's absolutely free to set up! 

BPRCVS Chief Officer, Christine Blythe, said: “When I learnt about the possibilities with this community lottery scheme I was immediately interested. It has the potential to help so many of the hundreds of very small voluntary, community and faith sector groups that we as a Local Infrastructure Organisation exist to help. When the opportunity was presented to the CVS trustees who are all drawn from our member groups, they too saw the exciting opportunity and agreed to fund the development. Our strapline is ‘helping people to help others’ - hence the name for our lottery.

These groups right across our three districts do some amazing work with very little resource, supporting and helping many thousands of people in so many ways.  Funding is increasingly difficult to find and the demand on our sector is growing. This is a wonderful opportunity to support these groups in a different way and any income they receive through the community lottery scheme would provide unrestricted funding to help them do what they do so brilliantly well.

The money raised by Helping Hands Lottery is going to make a lot of difference to grassroots good causes. We'd encourage all charities and community groups to come to the Good Cause Launch Event and start fundraising with our lottery. It’s easy and completely free!”

Gatherwell are currently producing our lottery website where you can find out more and get involved which we expect to be ready in a couple of weeks.

How To Get Involved - Join The Launch Event

Good causes of all shapes and sizes are being encouraged to attend the virtual launch event of Helping Hands Lottery on 4th November at 11:30 a.m. for their chance to get a slice of the ticket proceeds.

If you are involved with a good cause that would like to find out more about risk and investment-free unrestricted fundraising with Helping Hands Lottery, you can register for the virtual Good Cause Launch Event here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bprcvs/t-ldkaavy

Gatherwell will be joining us and explaining how it all works. You'll also have the opportunity to ask questions.
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Following the event, groups and organisations will be able to complete their registration, and tickets for Helping Hands Lottery will go on sale via the dedicated website, www.helpinghandslottery.co.uk, on 18th November (website goes live on this date too) for our first draw on 6th December.