Thank you for clicking to join the Local Hospice Lottery - the lottery that helps YOUR local hospice to keep caring for people living with life-limiting illnesses in YOUR community.
For just £5 per month, you could win one of the many cash prizes on offer. PLUS, you'll also be automatically entered into our incredible £10,000 Super Draws! Further detail about prizes and how the Lottery works is available below.
Good luck and thank you. It's a little bit of fun, but it makes a BIG difference to Helen & Douglas House!
Helen & Douglas House in your community
Helen & Douglas House is a home from home for local, terminally children and their families. They provide round-the-clock care in a warm, loving environment. It’s a comforting place where families can enjoy creating happy memories together in their child’s last days, weeks, months or years. Helen & Douglas House is there to support the whole family at an unimaginably difficult time, providing practical and emotional support as families face the challenges of terminal illness.
Based in Oxford, but supporting families from surrounding counties and as far as London, Helen & Douglas House cares for terminally ill children at the hospice and through their outreach service. At Helen House, the world’s first children’s hospice, they care for babies and children up to the age of 18.
It costs over £3 million a year to run the hospice, and Helen & Douglas House is dependent on voluntary contributions for over 85% of this. This means that they rely almost entirely on the generosity of people on the local community to be able to provide sustainable, specialist care for the young people who visit us and support for their families.
Profits from the Local Hospice Lottery help towards the running costs of Helen & Douglas House, and provide a regular stream of income which they can rely on receiving every month. Not only does this help to provide essential care and support to families right now, it also enables Helen & Douglas House to plan and develop their services for the future.
It costs over £3 million a year to run the hospice, and Helen & Douglas House is dependent on voluntary contributions for over 85% of this. This means that they rely almost entirely on the generosity of people on the local community to be able to provide sustainable, specialist care for the young people who visit us and support for their families.
In 2020 for each £1 entry in the weekly draw Local Hospice Lottery gave an average of 68p to hospice care. Helen & Douglas House is one of a number of hospices throughout Great Britain supported by Local Hospice Lottery. Local Hospice Lottery will give between 55% and 80% of profits from individuals playing in support of Helen & Douglas House to Helen & Douglas House.
With the help of wonderful supporters like you, this is expected to be at least £1,000,000 over five years (from April 2018)!
