The Power of a Prize Draw

£331,434 raised

33 roughly-monthly draws turned into a recurring revenue line

£75,700 raised

13 draws and £75,700 from shirts the club already owns

£27,160 raised

A sold-out secret gig as a £10 draw prize, £27,160 for War Child

A dozen intimate-gig draws run at once, every BRIT Awards week

£4,600,000 raised

Why BHF went back three times, and what actually compounds

£520,450 raised

An intimate two-man show, 150 winners, grown year on year

£201,908 raised

£201,908 across 8 draws using its own animals and access

£47,080 raised

VIP box tickets to a Coldplay stadium show as a £10 draw, £47,080 for the British Red Cross

£32,260 raised

A film tie-in as a £10 draw, £32,260 for Barnardo's

£25,390 raised

Excess demand for a sold-out show, turned into a ticket draw

A creator audience turns a sold-out Wembley match into £5 entries

Borrowing a game's fan community with an auction and a £5 draw

Most property raffles never hand over the house, and why that matters for a charity draw

£5,250,000 raised

A £5.25m donation from one Lake District house, and what surrounds it

£1,379,230 raised

A society lottery where only 25% reached the charity

£300,000 raised

£300,000 from a creator-led gaming bundle, a channel not a number

£200,000 raised

Seven parallel draws bolted onto one Royal Albert Hall gig

£100,000 raised

30 small sport charities pool into one £100,000 annual draw

£42,000 raised

£42k a year on a donated prize, platform, audience and slot

£28,035 raised

One donated guitar, £28,035 from 1,941 supporters, no campaign wave

£10,000 raised

A partner's scheduled demolition, repackaged as an experience prize

£5,850 raised

A signed art board timed to the Oasis reunion, £5,850 for Nordoff and Robbins

£5,795 raised

A money-can't-buy lifeboat passage that still missed its target, £5,795 of £20,240

£3,425 raised

A sponsor's hospitality box, run as a repeatable low-cost club draw

£1,044,190 raised

Festival tickets as a £10 draw raised ninefold what an auction did

£138,514 raised

Crowdfunder's top project of 2023, and her seventh year running it

£59,022 raised

13 artist draws, and one signed guitar did over half

£17,409 raised

A draw needs no cause: £17k a year for a non-charity

£163,850 raised

300 pairs of tickets drawn, not one: the multi-winner format

£26,685 raised

One art-trail giraffe became a £26,685 draw beside the auction

£23,725 raised

A brand-led draw: the bike maker ran it, the charity just received

£6,380 raised

Four follow-on draws compiled to £6,380, about what one viral jumper raised the year before

£908,976 raised

The same £5 draw for 110 artists: fame alone did not carry it

£80,000 raised

25 parallel artist draws turned a cancelled gala into ~£80,000

£76,863 raised

After-hours access to its own zoo as a prize money cannot buy

£10,612 raised

A proven music draw model narrowed to one genre, £10,612 for Stagehand

£5,787 raised

A hand-knitted jumper, £5,787, shipped in 14 days before going viral

£250,000 raised

The first UK Omaze house draw: £250,000 on a £1m house

£68,733 raised

One signed guitar, £68,733 for live-music crew in 21 days