# Your Hospice Lottery players raise £1 million for Arthur Rank Hospice Charity

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/10/26/hospice-lottery-players-raise-1-million-arthur-rank-hospice-charity/
- Published: 2018-10-26T08:00:15+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The Your Hospice Lottery has now raised £1 million for Arthur Rank Hospice Charity.**

Players pay £1 a week to participate, with £1,008,886.00 raised as of 19 October.
The money all goes towards funding the Hospice’s care and support, which is provided
free of charge to people living with a life-limiting illness in Cambridgeshire.

The milestone reaching draw, was the 385th since [Arthur Rank Hospice](https://www.arhc.org.uk/)
launched its weekly lottery with Your Hospice Lottery on 27 May 2011.

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More than 8,000 numbers are now played each week in support of the charity. Since
the beginning of the year, the grand total raised has been climbing by around £4,000
a week.

Lynn Morgan, CEO of Arthur Rank Hospice, said:

>  “It’s been wonderful to know that we have a steady income from the lottery and
> this helps us with planning our services. We also like the fact that the administration
> costs are still going to hospice care, because Your Hospice Lottery is administrated
> by [St Helena’s Hospice](https://www.sthelena.org.uk/) in Colchester. It would
> be our dream to expand the number of people playing, as this would have a very
> direct impact on our care: we could for example use such funds to recruit another
> nurse for Hospice at Home. Just £1 a week is a contribution many people can commit
> to and what better way to spend a £1?”

Alex Howe, Head of Lottery at [Your Hospice Lottery](http://www.yourhospicelottery.org.uk/),
added:

>  “Seven years ago – in a bid to keep costs down and increase the amount of funds
> that can be given back to hospice care – we took the opportunity to take our lottery
> to the next level and extend our services into Cambridgeshire, in partnership 
> with Arthur Rank Hospice Charity. Thanks to the loyal support and generosity of
> thousands of their supporters we are thrilled to now be celebrating £1 million
> raised.”

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