Euromillions Winners Give Back to the Community

Since netting the UK’s biggest ever Euromillions jackpot of £161 million back in July 2011, Chris and Colin Weir have kept in the public eye – but luckily, for better reasons than a lot of other lottery winners (reference the ill-fated “lotto lout” Michael Carroll, who won and lost a £9.7 million fortune in less than eight years). The Weirs have instead impressed both the media and the general public with their overwhelming generosity to help charitable concerns. After the news that they have made yet another bequest, we take a look back at their previous donations: Read more

The Health Lottery Comes Underfire

You may have seen the adverts on television for the new Health Lottery, a new game set up to rival the Lotto promising to raise money for projects that tackle health inequalities. This sounds great in theory but questions are now being raised about the ethics of the venture with one critic going as far as accusing them of “profiteering on the back of charities and undermining more generous lotteries.”

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Lottery scratchcard gingerbread house

As a unique and novel way to promote lottery ticket sales a Cigar Box store in Pennsylvania, US has built a lottery scratchcard gingerbread house out of $5,000 worth of Pennsylvania Lottery scratchcards and is offering it for sale. Some of the proceeds from the sale of this lottery scratchcard gingerbread house will be given to a charity chosen by the purchaser of the scratchcard house.

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Santa lottery on hold

A business man from North Wales wants to operate a one-off lottery to send sick children to Santa World in Sweden but unfortunately the Santa lottery is on hold due to expensive and time consuming bureaucracy.

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