News
Four £1000 winners in one week
This week there are four winners of £1000 each.
Three of these winners are supporting the Air Ambulance HELP Appeal and one supporting Helen and Douglas House.
A further 376 prizes were shared amongst Unity members supporting various charities.
16/5/2012
Two lucky £1000 winners
2 lucky winners have won £1000 this week. They are supporting the Air Ambulance HELP appeal and Julia's House.
A total of 388 smaller prizes were shared amongst players supporting different charities.
Equal chance of winning a prize
Unity Lottery has given away 382 prizes this week, winners were supporting a variety of good causes. The great thing about Unity is that all players have an equal chance (1 in 63) of winning a prize.
£1,000 winner for St Clare's Hospice
Saturdays draw generated a £1,000 winner for a player supporting St Clare's Hospice based in the North East. A range of smaller prizes were shared between 366 players supporting a range of charities.
24/04/12
51 charities have winners
This week Unity has created over 370 winners - between them these winners are supporting 51 charities. A significant proportion of winners choose to donate their prize money back to the charity they are supporting.
17/04/12
Easter Winners
Another 3 lucky palyers have won £1,000 this week. They are all supporting different charities, The Air Ambulance HELP Appeal, Helen & Douglas House and Papworth Hospital.
Almost 400 players have won smaller prizes of £25 and £5 - a total of £5,680 has been given away this week in prize money.
10/04/12
Five lucky players win £1,000 in one week!
We have had a record number of winners this week (24/03/12). Five lucky players have scooped £1,000 each. Three are supporters of the Air Ambulance HELP Appeal and two are supporting Helen & Douglas House - a hospice for children and young people.
27/03/12
We are based in Barrow-in-Furness, and locally we have a famous 40 mile sponsored walk. From Keswick in the Northern Lake District, over the hills and along the roads of the Lake District to Barrow in the South, the walk raises money for a wide range of local and national charities.
Two of our brave software engineers Andrew Campbell and Dave Treen are in training for the walk which takes place on the 12 May. We wish them the best of luck!
21/03/12
Happy Birthday to Shirley
Our Lottery Administration Manager Shirley Grosvenor celebrates a very special birthday this week. To help Shirley celebrate the Sterling staff headed to a local Italian restaurant last Friday evening and treated Shirley to a cocktail!
You should never ask a lady her age but to give you a clue The Twist and The Loco Motion were top songs of the year.
Shirley enjoying her birthday cocktail
21/03/12Welcome
We are pleased to welcome the following charities and organisations to Unity.
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Bliss
Life
Colebrook Housing
Clatterbridge your cancer centre
St Loyes Foundation
North Nothumberland Hospice
Ripley Village Hall
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£1,000 Winners
The past 3 weeks have seen three lucky Unity Lottery players winning £1,000. The players were playing to support different charities, the Samaritans, Cransley Hospice and Zoe's Place Baby Hospice in Middlesbrough.
These charities can now publicise the £1,000 win and hopefully recruit additional members.
03/05/11
100 Unity Clients
Unity Lottery is delighted to announce that it now has 100 charities and good causes running lotteries through the scheme. A diverse range of organisations benefit from running Unity Lotteries including national charities, sports clubs, schools, local charities and hospices.
Richard Dixon Managing Director of Sterling the company behind Unity Lottery said “We are pleased that so many fundraising organisations have chosen to run a lottery through Unity. We aim to make the process of setting up and joining a lottery as simple as possible and have just introduced the introduction of online payments for supporters.”
Launched in 2007 Unity has generated almost a quarter of a million for worthy causes. Prize and admin costs are shared, however all profits from individual supporters go to their chosen charity, 50p in every £1.
02/03/11
Random Number Generator
As you may be aware the Unity winning number is generated by an external source over which Unity has no influence. For the past four years we have used the first 6 digits of the National Lottery Dream number.
However the Dream number has now ceased and we are now using a random number generated by the Australian National Lottery Super 66 Game. The draw chooses 6 numbers randomly from 0-9, we will publish the winning number on the Unity website each week and winners with automatically be sent their cheques through the post.
If you would like further details regarding the Australian National Lottery Super 66 Game please visit http://www.lotterywest.wa.gov.au/results/super66
09/02/11
Join Online
We have invested in updating our website to allow supporters to join online via paperless direct debit and credit / debit card. Charities and fundraising organisations running a Unity Lottery can now send an email to all supporters and they can click on a link and sign up straight away!
Fundraising organisations who are registered with the Gambling Commission will need to purchase a remote license before we can active the online payment facility for their charity. If an organisation holds a license with their local authority they are able to accept online payments.
01/02/11
New Year Suprise
One lucky supporter playing the Costswold Care Unity Lottery has won £1,000.
The odds of winning the £1,000 prize are the same for all players no matter who they are supporting, That's the beauty of Unity.
18/01/11
Ostomy Lifestyle
The charity Ostomy Lifestyle joined Unity in Summer 2010, to raise money Ostomy Lifestyle supports anyone affected by stoma surgery on their bowl or bladder. We provide impartial advice, frank information, and emotional support when they need it, and where they need it.
They only have a relatively small number of supporters at the moment but one of their lottery members has won £1,000 prize this week.
16/11/10
Congratulations
The Butterfly Hospice Trust was formed by a small group of people concerned that there was no accessible in-patient hospice for those living in south/east Lincolnshire.
One of their supporters won £1,000 this week by playing Unity Lottery. The cheque will automatically be sent to them, Congratulations!
1/11/10
£1,000 winners
Two lucky players of Unity lottery have won the £1,000 prize just a week apart. A supporter of Three Rivers matched five numbers in the draw on Saturday 31st July and a week later a Papworth Hospital player scooped the £1,000 prize. The wins provide a good opportunity for the societies involved to publicise the lottery and attract new members.
10/08/10
Tweet Tweet
You can now follow us on Twitter @Sterlinglotto and @UnityLotto. We are getting to grips with the world of tweeting! If you follow us we'll follow you, social networks are a great way of keeping in touch. If you don't have an account you should open one and keep your supporters updated with your news and views.
22/06/10
Unity Promotional MaterialWe are in the process of developing additional promotional material to assist Unity clients in attracting new lottery members. Many charities and organisations host fundraising and charity events which can be the perfect opportunity to showcase the lottery. The promotional material includes a banner stand, point of sale and leaflet dispensers. The new material will be available soon. 24/03/10 |
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A lucky supporter of Zoes Place has won £1,000 this week playing Unity Lottery. Congratulations to them - they will automatically receive a cheque through the post. |
Happy Days Tele Marketing Campaign
Over the Christmas period Unity client Happy Days enlisted the help of a specialst company to carry out a telemarketing campaign on their behalf. The campaign has been successful with over 40 application forms being sent to new supporters. We are able to reccommend companies who have experience in dealing with charity tele-marketing campaigns. |  |
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Lucky Christmas Winner
A player supporting Tenovus had a nice belated Christmas present they won £1,000 on Boxing Day.
Tenovus have only been running a Unity Lottery for a few weeks and they have had their first £1,000 winner - a great marketing incentive to encourage other supporters to join the lottery.
08/01/10
Raising Valuable Funds
Since launching in 2007 Unity has generated over £70,000 in profit for charities running a Unity Lottery.
Unity is appealing to many different charities as it offers a risk free way to fundraise. Many charities are suffering from the effects of the recession, the public may not be able to donate as much money and as regularly as they may have previously done so.
Supporters who may not feel they are able to donate on a regular basis may be more inclined to join a lottery as they have a chance of winning a prize whilst also helping their chosen charity.
Unity has given away over £22,000 in prizes and the odds of winning a prize are 1 in 63.
1/12/09
Congratulations
| Our congratulations go our to everyone who has played their part in helping Askam Ireleth & Dalton Fundraiser 2000, Rett Syndrome UK, and the Scottish Spina Bifida Association reach their latest milestones. AID have just crossed the £5000 line, where as SSBA and RSA UK have reached £750 raised. All three have reached these marks in a very short period of time. So well done to everybody who has given up their time to raise the money, but remember to keep going, and good luck in reaching your next milestone. | |
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| Here at Unity we want to help all of our clients get the most out of their lottery, so if you need some advice, guidance or just somebody to bounce ideas off please send an email to info@unitylottery.co.uk and we can arrange a time to have an in-deph chat about your promotion. | |
20/05/09
CAVENDISH CANCER CARE HIT THE
FIRST MILESTONE
 | Well done to Cavendish Cancer Care for reached their first major milestone having raised £500 from Unity. The hard work of all the staff and volunteers has made this possible and is needed again to push towards the £1000 mark. This money is greatly needed in the fight against cancer. |
With charities continuing to raise large sums of money even in these difficult times, it just shows that Unity works, and other organisations are realising this. Three more charities have realised the fundraising potential of Unity and have signed up. Kirkby-in-Furness Community Centre, Newdawn Foundation and Sue Ryder Care - Manorlands Hospice. So a warm welcome to each of those charities. | |
26/03/09
WELCOME ONE AND ALL
Unity - The Nations Charity Lottery continues to attract more and more charities from all corners of the country that help all types of people. Derbyshire Association for the blind exists to improve the lives of visually impaired people by providing essential support and services throughout Derbyshire to help them come indepentent. |
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Edwards Trust is a Counselling and support charity setup to help those affected by the death of a child and children of school age who are bereaved following the death of a parent or significant carer. |
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| If you wish to find out more about either of these two charities plesae just click on their logo. |
05/03/09
Sight Savers Kick-Off Campaign
Sight Savers International have kicked off their new lottery recruitment campaign. This well know charity like many others has seen the vast potential of Unity Lottery for raising funds. For 50 years Sightsavers has been restoring sight and improving the lives of people who are irreversibly blind in poor countries around the world. We were founded in the 1950s by Sir John Wilson, with the express aim of restoring sight - wherever possible - in former Commonwealth countries. |
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Today, we work with partners in over 30 countries and our mission has expanded to also provide services to the blind and campaign for the eradication of needless blindness. If you want to play Unity on behalf of Sight Savers International download an application form at www.unitylottery.co.uk/sightsaversinternational |
11/02/09
Busy New Year for Unity
Unity has had a very busy start to the year with further expansion. Five new charities have join, UCARE, Rockinghorse, Behind Closed Doors, Chernobyl Children's Project and Louth & District Hospice. Each of these important charities needs help to raise the much neeeded funds to help them carry on the important work they do. To find out more about each charity simply click on their logo.
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09/02/09
Unity Grows Again
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The Paul Sartori Foundation becomes the latest in a long line of charities to understand the potential earning power of Unity. The Paul Sartori Foundation was started in 1985. The Hospice Home Care Service started with only 6 carers. As the years progressed the Foundation expanded the team to include Registered Nurses. We now employ a home care team of around 40 nurses and carers around Pembrokeshire. They are employed on an as needed basis, dictated by patient demand, to provide palliative care where treatment has switched from cure to relief of symptoms. If you wish to join the Paul Sartori foundation lottery please click the logo above or to find out more information about the Paul Sartori Foundation please visit www.paulsartori.wales.org |
29/12/08
Speakeasy Join Unity
Welcome aboard Speakeasy. Being the latest charity to take advantage of the risk free Unity lottery scheme, speakeasy are looking push their fundraising through the roof. |
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Speakeasy helps people suffering from Aphasia. Aphasia is a communication difficulty. It can happen after a stroke or other type of damage to the parts of the brain involved with language. If you wish to know more about the important work that speakeasy do visit their website www.buryspeakeasy.org.uk or click the logo above. |
06/12/08
Welcome to IIH UK
 | IIH UK has become the latest charity to sign up to UNITY. The IIH is the only charity in the UK to help sufferers of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, which is a rare neurological illness. |
| If you would like any more information about this incredibly worth while cause, visit their website www.iih.org.uk or simply click on the logo above. | |
18/11/08
Unique Join 
A huge welcome to, Unique - Rare Chromosome Disorder Support Group.
To find out more information about, and support this incredibly worth while cause, either click on their logo above or go to thier website www.rarechromo.org.
Good luck to all the players from Unique, lets hope you have some winners soon.
12/11/08
Keeps Working
The Nations Charity Lottery continues to raise charities money. Two more charities have broken the £1000 raised barrier. Bobath Children’s Therapy Centre, and Hospice at Home West Cumbria are benefiting from having a consistent weekly income. Even after reaching this amazing total the two charities will not be sitting back and relaxing, and I'm sure all of them will be pushing for the £5000 mark over the coming months. |
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Congratulations to the two charities, and good luck for your future fundraising. Unity is growing every week, so I am sure that these two won't be the last to reach the £1000 mark. |
06/11/08
PDS Reach £10,000
 | Parkinson's Disease Society have become the first charity to reach the £10,000 mark. Since they joined Unity in the summer of 2007 they have raised over £10,000 and have amassed over 625 members who play every week. Which is why they have raised this huge sum in just over a year. Our congratulations go out to everybody at the Parkinson's Disease Sociey and well done to all who have put the time and effort in to reach this magic target. |
23/10/08
Since it's launch last summer Unity has written profit cheques for it's clients totally over £10,000. Many Unity clients are relatively new and are in the process of developing their promotional campaigns. The amount of money raised for good causes next year will be much greater. For every £1 entry Unity pays 50p profit back to the players chosen charity. Profit cheques are then distributed to charities and fundraising organisations on a monthly basis.
Standard promotional leaflets and posters have been designed to assist charities in recruiting supporters. On signing up you would be issued with marketing notes to help you plan a successful promotional campaign.
