Lottery

Join the Friends Lottery

By joining the Friends of Chichester Hospitals Lottery, you can make a real difference to the treatment you, your family, and friends receive at St Richard’s Hospital and local mental health services, and also help the staff who care for them. The Friends regularly purchase equipment in support of these hospitals – among recent acquisitions are state of the art imaging technology for bowel cancer surgery, foetal monitors to ensure mother and baby are healthy, and sight-saving laser equipment.

We are entirely run by volunteers and award over 90% of our total income to supporting local Chichester services and patients.

Show your support by joining today – play from just £1 and you could win up to £25,000!

Join the lottery

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.

Play from £1 each week. Upon entry you’ll receive your unique set of 6-digit lottery numbers. Every Friday, a winning number is drawn at random. Match your digits to win up to £25,000!

Buy a lottery e-voucher

You can also gift your friends and family the chance to win £25,000 whilst supporting Friends of Chichester Hospitals with a lottery e-voucher: Purchase a voucher for the Friends of Chichester Hospitals Lottery

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.

Regular participation may increase your chances of winning; by playing you will contribute to the purchase of items including eye lasers and cognitive assessment tools. Recent acquisitions include state of the art imaging technology for treating bowel cancer and foetal monitors to ensure mother and baby are healthy.

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 the 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:

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

You’ll receive your lottery numbers by email or 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!

Rubina teaser (credit: KARL STORZ Endoscopy (UK) Ltd

Photo credit: KARL STORZ Endoscopy (UK) Ltd

Age restrictions, licence and promoter info, and game rules

Please note that you must be aged 18 or over to play the lottery.

The promoter of this Unity Lottery is The Friends of Chichester Hospitals.

The Friends of Chichester Hospitals is licensed and regulated in Great Britain by Chichester District Council under account number 3815/13/01032/GASSL.

A minimum of 50% of the total lottery proceeds go to supporting the work carried out by The Friends of Chichester Hospitals, 18.4% on prizes and 31.6% on expenses and administration of the lottery.

Unity is a common brand lottery jointly promoted by Sterling Management Centre Limited and individual society lotteries. Each Lottery operated under Unity is a separate licensed lottery, operated by and supporting that particular good cause. Unity is administered by Sterling Management Centre Limited, licensed and regulated in Great Britain by The Gambling Commission under account number 3137.

The full lottery rules are available here: https://www.unitylottery.co.uk/rules/ (link opens in new window).

Why support the Friends?

Celebrating our 75th anniversary this year, 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 over 90% 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 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, paediatric and emergency departments.

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