People's Postcode Lottery
Suite G4
14 Links Place
EDINBURGH
EH6 7EZ
0808 10 9 8 7 6 5 (freephone)
Curious whether you won? See the results of this week!
The People's Postcode Lottery launched in Scotland in January 2008. The lottery brand and concept is already well known in the North East of England, Sweden and especially in The Netherlands where 40% of households play. The People's Postcode Lottery supports local charities in Scotland, and offers a service, which brings many happy winners, charities and innovative projects!
Participation
You can play the People’s Postcode Lottery on a subscription basis. This keeps costs down as it removes the need for a national network of terminals. This means more can be given in prizes and donations to Scottish charities.
You can subscribe to the lottery through:
Lottery information
You can catch all the action here on the website. You can see the he weekly Prize Draws, winners and the benefiting charities in the quiz show Postcode Challenge, on Monday at 8pm by stv. Draw results and winning postcodes are also published weekly by a variety of media including newspapers and sent by email newsletter to you.
Charities
Internationally the People's Postcode Lottery operation has contributed over £2 billion to charitable projects and organisations throughout the world. This funding has enabled valuable work to be carried out in the areas of regeneration and community, poverty relief, children's wellbeing and nature conservation.
In Scotland the lottery is run to support Scottish charity partners: CHILDREN 1st, Maggie’s Centres and Scottish Wildlife Trust.
Regulatory
The People’s Postcode Lottery is independently licensed, monitored and supervised.
The Gambling Commission has issued an External Lottery Manager’s Licence under the Gambling Act 2005 to manage a Society Lottery under certificate nr 829-N-102511-001 and 829-R-102513-001, dated 20 September 2007.
You can download the Rules here.
If you’ve got any questions about the People’s Postcode Lottery, there’s a simple way to get the answers you need. Grace Crowther is one of the operators at our Customer Care Centre that’s been set up to do just that.
As part of a friendly team, she’s always happy to explain how the People’s Postcode Lottery works, and sort out any subscription queries. She puts down her headphones for a moment to talk about her work.
“One of the questions I’m often asked is how people can find out if they’ve won. Well, that’s an easy one! The results of the weekly draws are published on this website and in most local papers. Our number 0808 10 9 8 7 6 5 also gives updates on each weekly draw and the winning street and sectors. This is usually updated on a Friday.”
What about if people are away? According to Grace, there’s no need to worry.
“We contact all Sector Winners by letter, and if you win a Street Prize up to the £25,000 – we will contact you personally. And all the prizes are paid straight into the bank account that the Direct Debit is taken from.”
So how do you win a Sector Prize?
“The first four or five digits of your postcode need to match the winning ticket number – so for example, that’s AB4 3 if the winning postcode is AB4 3PL, or EH32 1 if it’s EH32 1BZ.” What other kind of questions will people ask? “Nobody wants to miss out on the chance to win £25,000, so people will call to tell us about changes to their bank account or address. Keep us informed and you may be a winner.”
Thanks for talking to us, Grace.