Love Blaby Lottery

We are offering the chance for one good cause to win a cash prize to celebrate the seven-year anniversary of the Love Blaby Lottery. The prize is open to new good causes joining the lottery or existing good causes that increase their active supporter numbers and tickets during the promotion period. The promotion period is from 20 January until 22 February 2025. The prize is for £500. To be eligible for entry into the random prize draw the following criteria must be met:

For new good causes:

• Organisation must meet the eligibility criteria for the Love Blaby Lottery (see Terms and Conditions Good Causes document on this webpage)
• Organisation must have completed the registration process, including creation of an online account, and provided all supporting information requested (for example governing document, policies and bank details)
• Organisation must be ‘live’ on the Love Blaby Lottery website by close of play on 21 February 2025 ready for the draw on 22 February 2025

For existing good causes:

• Organisation must continue to meet the eligibility criteria for the Love Blaby Lottery
• Organisation must be up to date with income monitoring
• Organisation achieves an increase in active supporter numbers and tickets between 20 January and 22 February 2025
• An increase will be measured by the difference between total supporter and ticket numbers available on the dashboard for each registered good cause as at 20 January and 22 February 2025

Process for draw

• All qualifying good causes will be entered into a random draw that will take place as soon as possible after 22 February 2025 during usual office hours
• The winning organisation will be notified by email or telephone as soon as possible after the draw
• Payment will only be made to the winning organisation by BACS transfer to the organisation’s account

"With the proceeds from the Love Blaby Lottery we have purchased a number of BeeBots! These are educational items to help the children at Blaby Stokes Primary School learn computer coding in a fun and easy way. This will help the children to learn digital skills which will be incredibly useful in the modern world.

We think the lottery is a brilliant scheme and has really helped us with a relatively passive income stream when it’s hard to keep asking our school community for donations. It’s been invaluable whilst Covid restrictions have been in place. Thank you!"

Rebecca Bunting – Treasurer at Association of Stokes School

“Our club would have closed without the support of the Love Blaby lottery”. The Club has used lottery proceeds to fund things such as safeguarding and first aid training for its coaches, along with CPR training for members, parents and other clubs.

Jim Oram – Club Coach at Countesthorpe Judo Club

Whetstone Good Neighbour Scheme was formed in 2016 by a group of volunteers who live in Whetstone. It aims to provide neighbourly assistance to those residents of Whetstone who are vulnerable or in need.

Lou Hathaway, Chair, says:

"The income from the Love Blaby Lottery has made us flexible in how we are able to help the vulnerable residents in Whetstone. Our biggest purchase this year has been a new wheelchair that's lightweight and easy to use. It enables us to get people to attend social events for those with limited mobility and has been a godsend. The lottery has also enabled us to ensure we are able to continue with the day to day running of the scheme without the financial worries.

We cannot thank you enough for the value it has brought to our scheme. Not only does it benefit the members of having a scheme, it gives people a chance to win and it helps with all the smaller costs that can arise along the way. We are so grateful".

‘The lottery is making our life much easier, as we don't have to scrabble around so much for funds when we are receiving around £1,200 per year from the syndicate members' stakes. Our players are dedicated to the club and only too happy to pay their £1 per week to support it. Having now won over £71 each, they are getting back 71 weeks of their previous stakes. All in all a brilliant way of fund raising.'

Alan Wing, Group Treasurer

Income from the Love Blaby Lottery has helped cover the running costs for the charity Wombles in Litter Education (WILE), including kit to deliver presentations about the impact of littering on our environment and litter picking equipment for schools.

Geoff Walker of WILE says: “Our supporters from all over the county have played the Love Blaby Lottery and that allows us to continue spreading our message”.

‘We have used the money raised through the lottery to contribute towards theatre trips to dementia-friendly performances. These have given our group members and their families the opportunity to go and do things they may not have done before or may feel are no longer possible. Looking at the joy on their faces and hearing them sing along is just priceless! Thank you so much for this opportunity - it is really helpful for us and we hope to attract some more supporters to join us in the near future.'

Christina Birkby - Leicester Musical Memory Box

‘We spent the lottery proceeds on children's books to improve our collection of Junior Fiction and to provide prizes for our annual Summer Reading Challenge – a challenge that encourages children to keep reading during the school summer break. This year we have been especially grateful for our Love Blaby Lottery funds as our electricity bills have soared unpredictably due to the current situation. The Community Library is extremely grateful to be a part of this excellent local project. It is also useful to have the resources that help to publicise the lottery and the extra prizes that are regularly added as extra incentives.' 

Margaret Leach - Huncote Community Library

Katrina Dunger of Croft Silver Band, for whom instrument repair costs are increasingly high, says: “We would like to say a massive thank you to the Love Blaby Lottery as they have enabled us to maintain our many brass instruments and allowed our friends, family, and audience members to support our band”.