Lottery Launched To Support Guildford Philanthropy

Published on: 23 May, 2018
Updated on: 23 May, 2018

A new lottery has been launched to support Guildford Philanthropy and other local causes.

The new Guildford Community Lottery, approved at last night’s Guildford Borough Council Executive meeting (22 May), will help raise additional funding for good causes across the borough while providing an opportunity for players to win weekly prizes of up to a possible £25,000.

Lottery tickets will cost £1 each and players can choose which good cause they want to support. They will have the option of wholly benefitting the council’s nominated charity, Guildford Philanthropy, or a local group of their choice with a small percentage going to Guildford Philanthropy.

Guildford Philanthropy is a collaborative partnership set up in 2013 between Guildford Borough Council and the Community Foundation for Surrey. The Community Foundation for Surrey helped to develop the scheme and manages the income and grants.

Council Leader Paul Spooner (Con, South Ash & Tongham) said: “Now Guildford’s Community Lottery has been approved it will take around six months to set up and launch to the public. We believe that every person matters and this is a great way to help a wide range of good causes raise extra funding for their valuable work. I look forward to talking to many local organisations to find out how we might support them through this new initiative.”

The council will not receive any funding from the scheme and is asking for local charities, sports clubs and voluntary groups to come forward and register an interest in being involved.

Cllr Spooner added: “Nearly 50 councils have already got a lottery or are in the process of launching lotteries and we have appointed Gatherwell Ltd to set up and operate our scheme.

“Community is very important to us and I encourage everyone to look out for more details about how they can help local people and win at the same time.”

To register an interest in your community group benefitting from the lottery please email stephen.benbough@guildford.gov.uk

Responses to Lottery Launched To Support Guildford Philanthropy

Bernard Parke Reply

May 23, 2018 at 1:46 pm

The perception behind this scheme is of course quite laudable.

However GBC did try a similar scheme some years ago which unfortunately had to be discontinued

These days there are now many such lottery schemes which did not exist at the time of this former venture.

The market place has become rather overloaded.with many such schemes.

I am sure that I am not alone in hoping that this lottery project will be successful and is not another burden for the hard paid council tax payer has to meet