The Children's Trust lottery review
The Children's Trust is the UK's leading charity dedicated to helping children with brain injuries. The charity offers education, rehabilitation and community work. It also runs a Children’s Trust School for children aged between 2 and 19.
The Children's Trust lottery costs £1 a week. A maximum of 20 entries can be purchased each week, but the process for entering is not clear. To sign up, you have to contact the charity’s Supporter Care team either by email or by phone. Once signed up you should receive a letter confirming your details and telling you your unique lottery number and the first draw that you will be entered into.
The Children's Trust lottery is drawn every Thursday. First, second and third prizes are respectively £,1000, £100 and £50. 15 runner-up prizes of £15 each are awarded in each draw. Winners are determined using a random number generator and prizes awarded on order of selection.
The Children's Trust lottery raises money for charity. It helps children with brain injury. The charity's own figures show that 34% of the proceeds from its lottery ticket sales go towards its work.
The Children's Trust lottery helps the charity to aid children with brain injuries and their parents and teachers. The proportion of ticket sale proceeds is higher than the 25% of National Lottery proceeds that go towards the Good Causes Fund. It's possible to sign up to the lottery only by contacting the organisation by phone or email.