Monday (lottery)

Monday - The Charities Lottery is a not-for-profit lottery in the United Kingdom, which is played over the internet or by post. The name comes from the fact that the draws happen on Mondays. The first draw was scheduled for 2000 BST, Monday 8 May 2006 but was delayed to midnight the same day due to technical difficulties [Lottery site delays deadline [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/08/lottery_problems/ The Register] ] . On June 12th 2007, play monday introduced a new jackpot prize of £10m, for matching all 6 main numbers and the bonus ball.

Financial difficulties

Six weeks after launch, it was reported that Chariot, the AIM-listed company set up to run the Monday lottery was in crisis. [ [http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/leisure/article671335.ece Investors furious as bosses of the Monday lottery fall woefully short of the jackpot (Times Online)] ] At the start of June 2006, its share price had fallen by 96%, from a high of 213½p to close at 8p on June 2 2006. This coincided with the news that directors of the Monday lottery were awarded shares and bonuses worth £10m.

The 'fairer lottery'?

The Monday lottery initially marketed itself as a fairer lottery than the National Lottery (operated by Camelot Group), as it would give 30p per pound to charity, compared to the National Lottery's 28p. However, on July 14 2006, after growing financial difficulties, the Monday lottery announced that it would drastically increase the amount it charges charities. [Chariot's lottery triples amount it charges charities [http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9070-2270673.html Times Online] ] Charities would pay the original charge of 1.8p per pound, plus an additional 6p per pound to collect the donations. The reduced Monday's donations to charity from 30p per pound to 22.5p per pound.

upported charities

Monday will support the following 70 charities.

*Acorns [http://www.acorns.org.uk]
*Action Medical Research [http://www.action.org.uk]
*AMBER (charity) [http://www.amberweb.org]
*Army Benevolent Fund
*Arthritis Research Campaign
*Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus [http://www.asbah.org]
*Association of Children's Hospices [http://www.childhospice.org.uk]
*Barnardo's
*The Big Issue Foundation
*Born Free Foundation
*Brain and Spine Foundation [http://www.brainandspine.org.uk]
*Breast Cancer Campaign [http://www.bcc-uk.org]
*British Heart Foundation
*British Red Cross
*Cancerbackup [http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk]
*CARE International UK [http://www.careinternational.org.uk]
*Chase Hospice [http://www.chasecare.org.uk]
*Child Brain Injury Trust [http://www.cbituk.org]
*Children in Crisis [http://www.childrenincrisis.org.uk]
*Children in Scotland [http://www.childreninscotland.org.uk]
*CLIC Sargent
*Counsel and Care [http://www.counselandcare.org.uk]
*Crisis
*DebRA [http://www.debra.org.uk]
*Enham [http://www.enham.org.uk]
*Fairbridge [http://www.fairbridge.org.uk]
*Family Holiday Association [http://www.fhaonline.org.uk]
*For Dementia [http://www.fordementia.org.uk]
*Help the Hospices’ [http://www.helpthehospices.org.uk]
*Home-Start [http://www.homestart.org.uk]
*Jubilee Sailing Trust
*Macmillan Cancer Support
*Marie Curie Cancer Care
*Mencap
*Meningitis Trust [http://www.meningitis-trust.org]
*Mental Health Foundation [http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk]
*Motor Neurone Disease Association [http://www.mndassociation.org]
*Multiple Sclerosis International Federation [http://www.msif.org]
*Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre [http://www.msrc.co.uk]
*Multiple Sclerosis Society [http://www.mssociety.org.uk]
*National Autistic Society
*National Deaf Children's Society
*ORBIS [http://www.orbis.org.uk]
*PDSA
*People & Planet
*Prostate Cancer Charity [http://www.prostate-cancer.org.uk]
*Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation [http://www.qef.org.uk]
*Rainbow Trust [http://www.rainbowtrust.org.uk]
*Rethink [http://www.rethink.org]
*RNID
*Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
*Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League [http://www.bcel.org.uk]
*Samaritans
*Scope
*Seafarers UK [http://www.kgfs.org.uk]
*Sense (charity) [http://www.sense.org.uk]
*Shelter
*Shooting Star Children's Hospice [http://www.shootingstar.org.uk]
*Sight Savers International [http://www.sightsavers.org.uk]
*Sound Seekers
*Sports Aid (charity) [http://www.sportsaid.org.uk]
*St. John Ambulance
*Talking Newspaper Association [http://www.tnauk.org.uk]
*Trees for Cities [http://www.treesforcities.org]
*UK Coalition of People Living with HIV and AIDS [http://www.ukcoalition.org]
*War Child
*WellChild [http://www.wellchild.org.uk]
*Whizz-Kidz [http://www.whizz-kidz.org.uk]
*Wooden Spoon (charity) [http://www.woodenspoon.com]
*World Wide Fund for Nature

See also

* National Lottery

References

External links

* [http://www.playmonday.com/ official Monday, The Charities Lottery website]
* [http://www.chariot.org.uk/ official Chariot website]
* " [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4924060.stm 'Fairer' lottery set for launch] " BBC News Online, 20 April 2006 - Accessed 3 May 2006