Join the Friends Lottery

Join our lottery and directly contribute to helping St Richard’s Hospital and local mental health services continuously improve their care for patients.

Win up to £25,000 every week

By joining our lottery, you will be helping us to continue to make a real difference, sometimes life-changing, to our local community.

For every £1 you play each week, you’ll receive a unique 6-digit lottery number. Every Friday, a winning number is drawn at random. Match your digits to win up to £25,000!

What are my chances of winning?

Our lottery partners Unity offer the best odds of any platform of its kind. Because it’s a number match game, the odds are fixed. This means that no matter how big the lottery is, every lottery number has an equal chance of winning a prize.

Each £1 entry has a 1 in 63 chance of winning one of four fantastic prizes. Every entry has an equal chance of winning, no matter how many players we have in our lottery.

What are the prizes?

The lottery is a number match game. We generate a random 6-digit winning number sequence. If the player’s digits are in same positions as the digits in the winning number sequence, they win a prize!

For example, if the winning number sequence was 123456, the lottery number 163057 would be a 3-digit winning match; because three digits are positioned in the same place in the sequence.

• 3 digit match = 5 entries into the next draw
• 4 digit match = £25
• 5 digit match = £1,000
• 6 digit match = £25,000

Together we can make amazing things happen!

Support the Friends in three easy steps:

1. Pick how many £1 entries you’d like to play each week
2. Click the button below to join online by Direct Debit or Debit Card, or alternatively download a postal form
3. Fill out and submit your details online or via postal form to our Freepost address

You’ll receive your lottery numbers in the post, and we’ll let you know when you will start playing.

See our lottery partner’s FAQs to find out more.

If you win, we’ll contact you, so there’s no need to claim your prize!

Why support the Friends?

Celebrating our 75th anniversary this year, and we are the only charity solely dedicated to supporting Chichester hospitals, including St Richard’s and the Sussex Partnership Trust local mental health facilities at the Oaklands Centre, the Chichester Centre and Connolly House in Graylingwell Park.

We also run a shop at St Richard’s Hospital selling a variety of items from books and snacks to balloons and gift items, as well as the much-loved trolley runs around the wards selling newspapers, magazines, toiletries and treats to patients and staff.

We are entirely run by volunteers and award 94% of our total income to supporting local Chichester services and patients. Over the last three years this has amounted to over £500,000.

In the past few years we have covered the purchase of vital equipment which could not be funded by the NHS, including:

• state of the art imaging equipment for use in colorectal cancer surgery;
• a portable ultrasound machine to enable quicker diagnosis and treatment for children with arthritis, resulting in less damage to joints by avoiding delays;
• 30 wheelchairs for use by patients visiting out-patient appointments;
• a neonatal ventilator;
• foetal monitors for babies and their mothers whilst their mothers are in labour to ensure both are fit and well; and
• other equipment for the respiratory and paediatric departments.

In addition, music equipment and speakers are just some examples of how we have supported Graylingwell mental health patients.