'Lovely shock' for winner of £10,000 jackpot draw

A £1 draw ticket scooped a £10,000 rollover jackpot prize for a woman from Shapwick near Glastonbury.

Winner Karen had been playing the St Margaret’s Hospice draw since 2017 in gratitude for the care given to her late mother and her sister.

The draw has 28 cash prizes every week plus the rollover, which started at £250 and has been increasing for 40 weeks to the maximum £10,000 jackpot. This is only the second time in 27 years that the prize pot has reached that amount.

Karen said: “I can’t believe it. When I heard I’d won I thought maybe £50, and then when I got told I’d won the rollover prize, I thought it’s got to be £1,000 and when the woman on the phone said, ‘No it’s £10,000….’ I was like ‘woah!’ It was a lovely shock!”

Karen was presented with her prize money at the Taunton Hospice on Heron Drive in Taunton on Friday, May 3 by the hospice’s Director of Fundraising, Retail and Communications Joanna Hall.

Joanna said: “The impact of each ticket extends far beyond the draw itself, as every contribution plays a vital role in funding compassionate care and support for individuals facing life-limiting illnesses, and their families in Somerset. The collective effort of our community of Prize Draw players generates an astounding £7,600 weekly, an amount that could cover the cost of providing 24/7 care on our in-patient unit for one patient for an entire week.”

The St Margaret’s Weekly Prize Draw is held every Friday. There are guaranteed first and second prizes of £1,000 and £500,along with the Rollover prize, which increases by £250 every week until it is won or reaches the £10,000 mark when it is guaranteed to be won. In the past 12 months more than £400,000 profit has been raised for St Margaret’s through the draw.

Tickets can be bought at any St Margaret’s charity shop, and anyone wanting to become a weekly player of the prize draw can sign up via st-margarets-hospice.org.uk/weekly-prize-draw