Frequently Asked Questions

Our lottery is a fun and exciting way for supporters to get involved in raising vital funds to improve the lives of Veterans and their families, along with an opportunity to win cash prizes.

For every £1 you play each week, you’ll receive a unique 6-digit lottery number. Match your digits to win up to £25,000.

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

Every Friday, the lucky winners are selected at random. Your prize cheques are posted directly to you, so there is no need to make a claim.

You must be 18 years old or over to enter the Erskine Lottery.

No. Your unique 6-digit lottery numbers are chosen randomly and will be your numbers for the duration you play our lottery. When you enter the lottery, you will be sent confirmation of your unique lottery numbers.

After prizes and administration costs, 50p of every £1 you play is guaranteed to provide support for our brave Veterans and their families at Erskine.

The draw takes place every Friday and sometimes there are 5 Fridays in a month. The additional £0.34p will build up credit to cover the months where there are five weeks.

Erskine have partnered with Unity Lotteries. Unity offers the best odds of any platform of its kind. It’s a number match game so the odds are fixed. This means that every £1 entry and lottery number has an equal chance of winning a prize.

The winning numbers will be drawn by Unity, our External Lottery Partner, using an industry standard ‘random number generator’. You can find the rules on our rules page.

Erskine is committed to responsible gambling - a term that means staying in control of how much time and money is spent on gambling related activity.

To support problem gambling , we operate a self-exclusion policy, which means you will not receive any information about our lottery. To be added to our self-exclusion programme please download the self-exclusion form from www.unitylottery.co.uk

If you are worried about your gambling or that of someone close to you, BeGambleAware can offer support, advice and counselling. If you or someone you know needs help or advice call the BeGambleAware confidential helpline on 0808 8020 133 or visit their website at www.gambleaware.co.uk for further information.

If you have a question about the lottery, you can get in touch via the Contact page or call the Unity Lottery hotline on 0370 050 9240.

If you would like to give feedback or find out more about Erskine, you can email us at fundraising@erskine.org.uk.

We look forward to hearing from you.