The Worcestershire Hospices Lottery
The Worcestershire Hospices Lottery is your local lottery, offering you an excellent chance to help *St Richard’s Hospice, Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust and Primrose Hospice to raise much-needed funds, while at the same time providing you with an opportunity to win a cash prize of up to £500 each week, or our rollover prize which can reach £5,000.
Money raised will be used for the sole benefit of the hospices to contribute towards their day to day running costs. Lottery office personnel, directors and their immediate household do not participate in the Hospices Lottery.
Weekly prizes
1st = £500
2nd = £50
3rd = 60 x £5
Rollover of up to £5,000
How much does it cost and how do you ‘pay & play’
There is a weekly prize fund of £850 and it costs £1 per week to play. You can pay by cheque, Direct Debit or debit card.
When you join, you are issued with a five digit unique number. Providing you have paid in advance of the draw, your number will be entered into the draw for the number of weeks you have paid.
The draw takes place every Friday morning, winners are selected at random using a random number generator. The draw itself is run by our lottery provider.
How do I claim if I have won?
There is no need to claim. If you win one of the top prizes we will contact you by telephone. However, all the prizes are sent out automatically. The full list of winners is available at worcshospiceslottery.starvale.org/lottery/results
Where does all the money go?
Since our first draw in 1999, we have raised more than three million for Worcestershire’s hospices. We couldn’t do it without the support of our loyal members.
In 2023, the likelihood of winning a prize was, on average, 1 in 124 in our regular weekly lotteries and 1 in 221 in our seasonal Bumper Draw.
Players in our weekly lotteries and the seasonal Bumper Draws are also automatically entered into a weekly Rollover draw.
Our Rollover prize increases by £100 each week it isn’t won (in 2023, the likelihood of winning was, on average, 1 in 399,144) and if it reaches £5,000, then one lucky player will be guaranteed to win that week (when the likelihood of winning reverts to the aforementioned weekly lottery and seasonal Bumper Draw averages).
In 2023, £412,237.00 was raised from ticket sales in our regular weekly lotteries and seasonal Bumper Draws, with 12.27% being spent on Prizes, 38.92% spent on Expenses and 48.81%* used to fund the hospices’ care of patients and their families. This translated to a fantastic £201,224.86! (Based upon the Lottery Submissions made to the Gambling Commission during the 2023 calendar year).
*The percentage used to fund Hospice care for patients and families is lower this year due to a “player recruitment campaign” that will benefit the Hospices in the longer term.
All proceeds go to Worcestershire Hospices Lottery Ltd (Company Registration No 36 89508) which is jointly owned by Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust (Registered Charity No. 700859), Primrose Hospice (Registered Charity No. 700272) and St Richard’s Hospice (Registered Charity No. 515668), with all profits being shared equally between the three hospices.
How to join
So why not join us today? Sign up to pay by Direct Debit at worcshospiceslottery.co.uk/home, call us on 01905 958267 or email
Please note players must be aged 18 or over. We actively promote responsible gambling.
Lottery canvassing
Worcestershire Hospice Lottery canvassers will be in the following postcode areas in December 2024. They will carry identification and wear WHL tabards.
DY 11 (7); DY13 ( 0 & 9); DY 14 (9); GL20 (6 & 7); WR2 (4,5 & 6); WR3 (7 & 8); WR5 (2 & 3); WR6 (5 & 6); WR7 (4); WR8 (0 & 9); WR9 (0,7,8 & 9) WR10 (1,2 &3); WR11 (1 – 4, 7 & 8) WR 13 (6); WR14 (1 – 4); WR15 (8);
Fundraising responsibly
Worcestershire Hospices Lottery is a member of the Hospices Lottery Association.
The organisations are committed to using Lotteries to fundraise responsibly and work together to encourage responsible gambling and access to support if needed. Contact begambleaware.org
You can also telephone The National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133, or visit worcshospiceslottery.starvale.org/gaming/responsible-gambling-guide
Your information
The Worcestershire Hospices Lottery is a limited company, separate from any of the hospices that promote the lottery. The lottery company will hold your personal and payment details to run the lottery. This will include managing payment details, reminders and occasional contact by post and/or phone for developments related to the lottery. We do not share your data with any other organisation. The three hospices do not have access to data you provide to participate in the lottery.
For our terms and conditions see worcshospiceslottery.starvale.org/gaming/terms-conditions
Gift idea
What to give the person who has everything? Why not give the gift that carries on giving – a Worcestershire Hospices Lottery subscription presented in a gift card. Suitable for anyone over 18 years.
