The Kind Spirits Fund

The Kind Spirits Fund turns a penny from every ticket sold on this site into one gift, to one person or family, every fortnight. This page explains where the money comes from, who it can go to, and how to put someone forward.

What the fund is

Every time a ticket is bought with a card on this site, 1p goes into the Kind Spirits Fund. Every competition, not just the winning tickets, not just the expensive ones. Tickets paid for with wallet credit do not add to it, because that credit is money we have already paid out as a prize — they enter every draw exactly the same way.

You do not have to opt in and there is nothing extra to pay. If you buy a ticket with a card, you have put a penny in.

How it grows, and when it is paid

• We put £25 in at the start of every fortnight to open the fund.
• 1p is added every time a ticket sells, for the whole fortnight, so the total climbs on its own.
• Every other Monday, at our live draw, the whole balance is paid out — all of it, however big or small it has grown.

Then it starts again at £25 for the next fortnight. The current total is shown on our home page, so you can see what is in the fund as the fortnight goes on.

Who it goes to

The fund goes to a person or a family. Never an organisation. Somebody having a rough year, somebody who has had bad news, somebody quietly holding a lot together, or simply somebody who deserves a lift.

Any player can nominate anyone. If you have bought tickets here in the last 30 days — by card or with wallet credit — you can nominate a neighbour, a friend, someone at work, a member of your family, or yourself. Beyond that, what you have spent with us is irrelevant: entering a hundred competitions does not make a nomination any more likely to be chosen. We read them all the same way.

How to nominate

1. Sign in to your account.
2. Open the Kind Spirits Fund panel on the home page.
3. Fill in the short form and send it.

We ask for four things:

• Who you are nominating — their name.
• Why them — a few lines about them and what would help. Plain words are fine. You are not filling in an application, and a longer entry is not a better one.
• Your email address.
• Your contact number, so we can get hold of you if your nomination is the one we choose.

Please only tell us what the person would be happy for us to know.

How we choose

George and Sunny read every nomination that comes in and choose one every fortnight. That is the whole process. There is no scoring and no public vote.

If someone nominates you

We will not publish anyone’s name without asking them first. If a nomination is chosen we get in touch with the person who sent it in — that is what the contact details on the form are for.

The fund in plain words

The Kind Spirits Fund is not a charity and is not collected for the benefit of any particular charity. 1p from every ticket bought with a card on this site is added to it. The whole balance is paid at the end of each fortnight to an individual or family chosen by us from the nominations we receive. Payments are gifts from Spooky Competitions Ltd, not charitable donations.

Separately, and before this fund existed, we gave £679.40 of our own money to good causes including Myton Hospice, Bedworth RFC and Dogs Trust. Those gifts were not funded by ticket sales and are not connected to the fund described on this page.

Questions

If there is anything you want to ask about the fund, or you would like to talk a nomination through before you send it, get in touch. We would rather hear from you than have you not put someone forward.