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Monday - The Charities Lottery - 4D Web |
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 Monday - The Charities Lottery is a not-for-profit lottery in the United Kingdom, which is played over the internet or by post. The name comes from the fact that the draws happen on Mondays. The first draw was scheduled for 2000 BST, Monday 8 May 2006 but was delayed to midnight the same day due to technical difficulties. On June 12th 2007, play
Monday introduced a new jackpot prize of £10m, for matching all 6 main numbers and the bonus ball.
Financial difficulties
Six weeks after launch, it was reported that Chariot, the AIM-listed company set up to run the Monday lottery was in crisis. At the start of June 2006, its share price had fallen by 96%, from a high of 213½p to close at 8p on June 2, 2006. This coincided with the news that directors of the Monday lottery were awarded shares and bonuses worth £10m.
The 'fairer lottery'?
The Monday lottery initially marketed itself as a fairer lottery than the National Lottery (operated by Camelot Group), as it would give 30p per pound to charity, compared to the National Lottery's 28p. However, on July 14, 2006, after growing financial difficulties, the Monday lottery announced that it would drastically increase the amount it charges charities. Charities would pay the original charge of 1.8p per pound, plus an additional 6p per pound to collect the donations. The reduced Monday's donations to charity from 30p per pound to 22.5p per pound.
Supported charities
Monday will support the following 70 charities:
Acorns
Action Medical Research
AMBER (charity)
Army Benevolent Fund
Arthritis Research Campaign
Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
Association of Children's Hospices
Barnardo's
The Big Issue Foundation
Born Free Foundation
Brain and Spine Foundation
Breast Cancer Campaign
British Heart Foundation
British Red Cross
Cancerbackup
CARE International UK
Chase Hospice
Child Brain Injury Trust
Children in Crisis
Children in Scotland
CLIC Sargent
Counsel and Care
Crisis
DebRA
Enham
Fairbridge
Family Holiday Association
For Dementia
Help the Hospices’
Home-Start
Jubilee Sailing Trust
Macmillan Cancer Support
Marie Curie Cancer Care
Mencap
Meningitis Trust |
Mental Health Foundation
Motor Neurone Disease Association
Multiple Sclerosis International Federation
Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre
Multiple Sclerosis Society
National Autistic Society
National Deaf Children's Society
ORBIS
PDSA
People & Planet
Prostate Cancer Charity
Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation
Rainbow Trust
Rethink
RNID
Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League
Samaritans
Scope
Seafarers UK
Sense (charity)
Shelter
Shooting Star Children's Hospice
Sight Savers International
Sound Seekers
Sports Aid (charity)
St. John Ambulance
Talking Newspaper Association
Trees for Cities
UK Coalition of People Living with HIV and AIDS
War Child
WellChild
Whizz-Kidz
Wooden Spoon (charity)
World Wide Fund for Nature |
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