Love Blaby Lottery

The Love Blaby Lottery is Blaby District Council's weekly online community lottery raising money for local charities, community groups and sports clubs.

  • Players can win up to £25,000 with a 1 in 50 chance of winning a prize each week
  • Play for £1 per week with 60 pence from every £1 ticket going to good causes
  • Players decide which good cause to support

Players must be 18 years old or over and resident in the UK. For more information on how to play and to buy tickets online visit the Love Blaby Lottery website or call 0116 380 0775.

Always play responsibly. If you need advice or support around gambling, visit the BeGambleAware website below.

6th anniversary prize promotion

To celebrate six years of the Love Blaby Lottery we are running a special prize promotion to coincide with our anniversary draw on Saturday 24 February 2024. We are offering a cash prize of £250 for one lucky good cause! The prize is open to new good causes joining the lottery or existing good causes who increase their active supporter numbers and tickets during the promotion period. The promotion period is from 15 January until 24 February 2024.

Terms and conditions of the anniversary promotion

We are offering the chance for one good cause to win a cash prize to celebrate the six-year anniversary of the Love Blaby Lottery. The prize is open to new good causes joining the lottery or existing good causes who increase their active supporter numbers and tickets during the promotion period. The promotion period is from 15 January until 24 February 2024. The prize is for £250.  To be eligible for entry into the random prize draw the following criteria must be met: 

For new good causes:  

  • Organisation must meet the eligibility criteria for the Love Blaby Lottery (available at www.blaby.gov.uk/blaby-lottery) 
  • Organisation must have completed the registration process, including creation of an online account, and provided all supporting information requested (for example governing document, policies and bank details) 
  • Organisation must be ‘live’ on the Love Blaby Lottery website by close of play on 23 February 2024 ready for the draw on 24 February 2024 

For existing good causes: 

  • Organisation must continue to meet the eligibility criteria for the Love Blaby Lottery 
  • Organisation must be up-to-date with income monitoring 
  • Organisation achieves an increase in active supporter numbers and tickets between 15 January and 24 February 2024 
  • An increase will be measured by the difference between total supporter and ticket numbers available on the dashboard for each registered good cause as at 15 January and 24 February 2024 

Process for draw 

  • All qualifying good causes will be entered into a random draw that will take place as soon as possible after 24 February 2024 during usual office hours 
  • The winning organisation will be notified by email or telephone as soon as possible after the draw 
  • Payment will only be made to the winning organisation by BACS transfer to the organisation’s account 

 

Why join the Love Blaby Lottery?

It is FREE for organisations to join the Love Blaby Lottery and you receive lots of help to promote your cause. You can spend the proceeds however your organisation needs. So, if you’ve not already signed up, it’s a great time to join the Love Blaby Lottery and start raising money in a matter of days!

If you would like to find out more about how the lottery works and how it could benefit your organisation, join one of our online information sessions:

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 2pm to 3pm: Join January meeting via Teams

Wednesday 7 February 2024, 10am to 11am: Join February meeting via Teams

How much money could your organisation raise by joining the Love Blaby Lottery?

Number of tickets in play per week Projected annual income for good cause
10 £260
20 £520
30 £780
50 £1300

The projected annual income is based on maintaining a consistent level of ticket sales per week.

For more information, help to register your good cause or buy tickets by telephone contact 0116 380 0775 or email support@blabylottery.co.uk  Lines open 9 am - 5.30 pm, Monday - Friday (excluding Bank Holidays). 

Good causes we've helped

Read more about how other good causes are benefitting from being part of the Love Blaby Lottery.

Association of Stokes School raising £1,170 a year

"With the proceeds from the Love Blaby Lottery we have purchased a number of BeeBots! These are educational items to help the children at Blaby Stokes Primary School learn computer coding in a fun and easy way. This will help the children to learn digital skills which will be incredibly useful in the modern world.

We think the lottery is a brilliant scheme and has really helped us with a relatively passive income stream when it’s hard to keep asking our school community for donations. It’s been invaluable whilst Covid restrictions have been in place. Thank you!"

Rebecca Bunting – Treasurer at Association of Stokes School

Countesthorpe Judo Club raising over £150 a year

"The proceeds from the Love Blaby Lottery have gone towards the hire of the village hall to enable us to run our sessions. We still have not recovered from the pandemic and our membership is so low that without the lottery we wouldn’t be able to continue."

Jim Oram – Club Coach at Countesthorpe Judo Club

Whetstone Good Neighbour Scheme raising £780 a year

Whetstone Good Neighbour Scheme was formed in 2016 by a group of volunteers who live in Whetstone. It aims to provide neighbourly assistance to those residents of Whetstone who are vulnerable or in need.

Lou Hathaway, Chair, says:

"The income from the Love Blaby Lottery has made us flexible in how we are able to help the vulnerable residents in Whetstone. Our biggest purchase this year has been a new wheelchair that's lightweight and easy to use. It enables us to get people to attend social events for those with limited mobility and has been a Godsend. The lottery has also enabled us to ensure we are able to continue with the day to day running of the scheme without the financial worries.

We cannot thank you enough for the value it has brought to our scheme. Not only does it benefit the members of having a scheme, it gives people a chance to win and it helps with all the smaller costs that can arise along the way. We are so grateful".

Croft Happy Circle raising £1,170 a year

‘The lottery is making our life much easier, as we don't have to scrabble around so much for funds when we are receiving around £1,200 per year from the syndicate members' stakes. Our players are dedicated to the club and only too happy to pay their £1 per week to support it. Having now won over £71 each, they are getting back 71 weeks of their previous stakes. All in all a brilliant way of fund raising.'

Alan Wing, Group Treasurer

Blaby and Whetstone Youth Club raising £182 a year

'We have purchased equipment for the computer room at our Youth Club with proceeds from the lottery.  We have over 200 members and this will ensure we can continue to provide a safe space for them to hang out with friends and keep them off the streets. It's a fantastic scheme and we are privileged to be part of it.' 

Alaina Gallacher - Blaby and Whetstone Youth Club

Leicester Musical Memory Box raising £182 a year

‘We have used the money raised through the lottery to contribute towards theatre trips to dementia-friendly performances. These have given our group members and their families the opportunity to go and do things they may not have done before or may feel are no longer possible. Looking at the joy on their faces and hearing them sing along is just priceless! Thank you so much for this opportunity - it is really helpful for us and we hope to attract some more supporters to join us in the near Future.'

Christina Birkby - Leicester Musical Memory Box

Huncote Community Library raising £390 a year

‘We spent the lottery proceeds on children's books to improve our collection of Junior Fiction and to provide prizes for our annual Summer Reading Challenge – a challenge that encourages children to keep reading during the school summer break. This year we have been especially grateful for our Love Blaby Lottery funds as our electricity bills have soared unpredictably due to the current situation. The Community Library is extremely grateful to be a part of this excellent local project. It is also useful to have the resources that help to publicise the lottery and the extra prizes that are regularly added as extra incentives.' 

Margaret Leach - Huncote Community Library

Downloads
Last updated 16 January 2024
Do you need to get in touch with us? Use our contact form.