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Posted by Jessica McQueen - 23 October 08, 17:25
Lottery Launch

The football club are launching a local Kent lottery which is run to help raise funds for local football clubs and charities. Already Margate, Folkestone and Gillingham football club are already signed up as are one or two charities.

The football club are launching a local Kent lottery which is run to help raise funds for local football clubs and charities. Already Margate, Folkestone and Gillingham football club are already signed up as are one or two charities.

The lottery is called Superdraw so ours could be called 'Goalden Gate Superdraw.'

Entry to Superdraw will be £1.00 per week or £4.34 per month standing order. Members are not restricted to one entry a week. If the payment is not received then the member's numbers are withdrawn prior to the draw taking place. Agents can collect door to door or at work, etc, cash can be paid either weekly or fortnightly in advance.

Members will receive their membership card through the post to their home address together with their 10 unique numbers for the main draw and their birth date draw number i.e. 12/05/67 which will be entered into the accumulator jackpot each week whilst payment is received.

Members 10 unique numbers will be entered into the main draw for a weekly cash prize of £1000.00, 1 x £150.00, 1 x 100.00, 1 x £75.00, 2 x £50.00, 4 x £25.00, 10 x £10.00 and 30 x £5 prizes.

The member’s birth date will be entered into an accumulator jackpot starting at £100.00 if the birthdates drawn have not been selected by any of Superdraws paying members the prize will increase by £100.00 per week until it has been won when it will revert back to £100.00. The accumulator jackpot could rise to £5000, when it must be won. When this prize increases it is a great tool to collectors if they are having a problem extracting payments from members every week.  

But that’s not all in May 2009 there will be one off draw for a donated prize of £10,000.00. The number of weeks’ you pay into the draw will correspond with the number of chances you will have in the draw in May, so rewarding regular paying members.

No member need claim the prize, prizes are sent automatically. It is preferable to send winning cheques to the participating clubs to deliver to their winning member(s), so we could make presentations on the pitch.

The draw takes place every Monday.  

Collections from members will be the responsibility of the club which is where the fleet trust comes in as we have offered to help with some of the administration work. KSA will be responsible for sending each participating club weekly collection sheets for each round which will include the name and address of each member. If you would like to help with this or would like to become a collector and enlist, family, friends, neighbours, or even workmates the collectors will be required to complete their sheet with the amount collected from each member. The club/trust volunteer will return the form to the KSA by fax is possible prior to the draw, so that valid members are entered. KSA will pay agents/collectors 15% of the gross weekly amount they collect. Agents also receive 10% if one of their members wins the 1st prize.  

KSA will provide forms for members to join. The draw was launched at Stonebridge Road on Saturday 18th October and was generally well received.  

We could also enlist local newsagents who could add the cost of the lottery onto customers weekly newspaper bills, the would also receive the 15%/10% etc, but we would have to collect the money from then weekly. So maybe if you have a good relationship with any locals you could become involved on this level.

The Fleet Trust are helping the football club manage this project and completed forms can be returned to the club shop or posted to the football club, marked Superdraw.

Remember the more people who participate the more money the football club with benefit. We are hoping that if this takes off regular cheque presentations will be made to the club so everyone will be aware of how we are doing.

Just a quick calculation: if we have 300 members regularly paying £1.00 per week the club would receive £540.00 per month, please think about joining and helping EUFC.