A new lottery supporting Oakhaven Hospice

Oakhaven Hospice is delighted to announce the launch of a new partnership which has the potential to significantly increase lottery income for the Hospice over the coming years.

Local Hospice Lottery is a not-for-profit, hospice-owned society lottery. From June 2024, Oakhaven Hospice will be one of 37 hospices throughout Great Britain benefitting from the proceeds raised by its weekly draws.

Regular and reliable income makes a big difference to the day-to-day funding of Oakhaven services provided to families in and around the New Forest, Totton and Waterside communities. Each year, just 11% of Oakhaven’s funding is covered by the NHS. For the remaining 89% the Hospice relies on kind donations, fundraising, gifts in wills and income generated by the Oakhaven charity shops and social enterprise Oakhaven Care Ltd.

Taking part in the Lottery is an easy, affordable, and fun way to help ensure that Oakhaven Hospice is here to provide specialist care now and in the future.

Andrew Ryde, Chief Executive of Oakhaven Hospice, said; “We are delighted to be working with Local Hospice Lottery to provide a new lottery for our supporters. We hope that the Local Hospice Lottery in support of Oakhaven Hospice will provide an improved lottery income stream for Oakhaven, whilst providing players with an improved lottery experience.”

Raising as much money as possible for Oakhaven Hospice

By sharing management costs and overheads, Local Hospice Lottery’s innovative and collaborative model ensures that as much money as possible can be passed to hospice care, whilst also giving hospice supporters the opportunity to win in a larger prize fund too.

For each £1 entry in the weekly draw, Local Hospice Lottery will give between 60% and 80% of profits from individuals playing in support of Oakhaven Hospice to Oakhaven Hospice. This is significantly more than most other society lotteries and, to date, Local Hospice Lottery has raised over £60 million for hospice care across Great Britain!

Oakhaven Hospice considered various options when deciding how to develop the income stream from their existing lottery and after all due consideration, decided that joining the Local Hospice Lottery was the best option for both the Hospice and its supporters. Oakhaven Hospice will now benefit from receiving more from every £1 entry than previously – and the more local people that play - the more the Hospice will receive!

Who can play the Local Hospice Lottery?

Anyone in the UK, aged 18 or over can join the Local Hospice Lottery playing in support of Oakhaven Hospice and have a great chance to win whilst helping Oakhaven to care for local families in need. Membership costs just £5 per month and there are currently 201 cash prizes to be won every week:

➢ Guaranteed £2,000 prize
➢ A £1,000 rollover prize (which can reach as high as £25,000!)
➢ A £100 prize
➢ 8 x £25 prizes
➢ Plus 190 x £10 prizes

That’s a total weekly prize fund of £5,200 - the largest of any hospice lottery!

PLUS… there are also THREE SUPER DRAWS that take place every year, giving players the chance to win an additional guaranteed top prize of an incredible £10,000 every March, September and December!!

How the income raised will help

The income raised through this new partnership will play a vital part in enabling Oakhaven Hospice to continue providing care and support for patients, like Janet’s husband, Richard.