# New charity lottery launched in N Ireland

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/07/25/new-charity-lottery-launched-in-n-ireland/
- Published: 2018-07-25T11:58:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Charities are being invited to join a new fundraising initiative to raise money
from society lotteries in Northern Ireland.**

On the back of a research study and feasibility plan conducted by nFundraising last
year, a new not-for-profit social enterprise called Good Raffle C.I.C. has been 
established to run a new raffle game for Northern Ireland featuring a range of weekly,
monthly and seasonal games returning proceeds to good causes.

**Good Raffle** hopes one day to maximise the legal proceeds limit of £1 million
per charity per year. It is understood that two household name N. Ireland charities
are already in the scheme.

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Raffle tickets will be sold online and offline through Good Raffle terminals and
payment can be taken with cash or credit/debit card, including contactless payments.
Tickets are entered at the point of sale equipment and support will be provided 
by Good Raffle,  including training and support for fundraisers, volunteers and 
support groups.

[Good Raffle](http://goodraffle.org) will also support charities wishing to run 
legal and compliant raffles, lotteries and ballots in Northern Ireland and can be
brought in to advise your charity in relation to its lotteries or to provide training.

[Nifundraising](http://www.nifundraising.org), which is run by consultant Neil Irwin,
has shown a number of society and private lotteries are being run against best practice
or are non-compliant and this will be harder to sustain with more monitoring by 
the Charity Commission and Fundraising Regulator.

Good Raffle is particularly interested in medium to large Northern Ireland charities
for this opportunity and there would be greater priority given to applications from
charities with charity shops or a large number of community events run across the
year.

Neil Irwin can be contacted at [ne**@********le.org](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/07/25/new-charity-lottery-launched-in-n-ireland/ne**@********le.org).

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