Age UK Lottery

I am with Edmund Burke on this – a lottery is a tax on all fools.

Does some of the cash go to Age UK Mick? I do one with United Response, the organisation which cares for our son, and 25% of my lottery payment goes to that charity. I also do a little one with the Air Ambulance, but would pay for that anyway without the reward, because of the great job they do. Yer pays your money and yer take your chance, as my dad used to say. - he was a compulsive gambler.

Several good causes run lotteries in which you stand a better chance of winning but the prizes are smaller but you know that money has gone directly to a good cause. We have a children's hospice nearby that has its own lottery so I do that one from time to time.

When you buy a charity lottery ticket isn't the intention that you are donating to that charity but at the back of your mind there's a faint hope that you might win something?

Why not just make a donation? Just asking.

Well, Mick, your chances of winning aren't zero, they are just really low, because there are no lotteries, with really good chances... these lotteries australian lotto results for example have one chance in 8 million to win......

I've been doing the Devon Air Ambulance lottery for almost 3 years now and have never won anything, but I console myself by realising that it is a brilliantly good cause. Winning would be a lovely bonus, but is not the main priority for doing it. I think the odds of winning any lottery are very low, but at least charity ones are worthwhile.

I do the Air Ambulance, and have always really considered it a donation. But with the National, our odds, apparently, are 14 million to one!!!

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Has anyone on here won a sizeable sum in a lottery ?

Now that would be telling

When I helped with a local hospice lottery, I know that often winners would donate their winnings back to the hospice