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Gosport Community Lottery is Launched!
29/06/2018
Over 90 people attended the Gosport Community Lottery Good Cause Launch at The Alverbank Hotel on Thursday 28 June. Guests were entertained by The Stokes Bay Strummers and heard from Ian Reeves, Trustee at Gosport Voluntary Action, the Worshipful Mayor of Gosport Councillor Diane Furlong, Ben Speare, the Managing Director of Gatherwell, (an External Lottery Management Organisation) and the Lottery was officially launched by Caroline Dinenage MP, by ceremoniously cutting the Gosport Community Lottery Launch Cake.
Ian Reeves, trustee at Gosport Voluntary Action, who said: ‘The Gosport Community Lottery is an opportunity for the various good causes in the town, for the players and for the borough to become more self-sufficient when it comes to our charities and good causes. There are so many people who will benefit from the community lottery – it’s a great thing for us to do as a town as a way of supporting these causes.’
Tickets will cost £1 with 60p going towards local Good Causes, compared to just 28p in the pound for the National Lottery. Players of the lottery can win a weekly £25,000 jackpot, plus smaller prizes and there is a 1 in 50 chance of winning a prize. The Lottery will be launched to the public and tickets will be on sale on 25 July 2018. Players of the lottery can either choose a specific Good Cause to support, or choose to allocate their funds to a central pot, which GVA will monitor and award to local small charities or groups.
Although Gatherwell operates 50 local authority lotteries across the UK, GVA chief officer Nicky Staveley said it was, “the first Council of Voluntary Action in the country to run a lottery”.
Gosport Borough Council Leader Mark Hook said: “It was an exciting occasion, when we launched a new way of supporting community organisations. The lottery is all about charities, the voluntary sector and not-for-profit organisations. I’m sure that residents will want to join in and play, and that even more groups will want to sign up and benefit.”
After the lottery was officially launched guests enjoyed further entertainment from the Stokes Bay Strummers as well as cream tea and cake. Of the groups represented at the launch, 22 had signed up by the end of the event.
To sign up as a Good Cause of find our more please visit www.gosportcommunitylottery.co.uk or phone 02393 190222.
