The latest from the Lottery

Read about the brilliant local causes that couldn’t have been helped without your support, details on our fantastic winning members, and the latest goings on at the Lottery, and when we’re out and about.

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The latest from the Lottery

Read about the brilliant local causes that couldn’t have been helped without your support, details on our fantastic winning members, and the latest goings on at the Lottery, and when we’re out and about.

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November 29, 2014

Lottery goes to the dogs for public pet vote

One lucky cat or dog from Eden Animal Rescue will set off Pride in Penrith Lottery’s Christmas special draw, and the public is being asked to help choose which rescued pet it will be. Six dogs and cats from the rescue centre at Hardendale near Shap have kindly agreed to put paw to laptop on… Read more »

November 26, 2014

Vote for the pet you’d like to do our £500 Christmas draw!

One lucky cat or dog from Eden Animal Rescue will set off Pride in Penrith Lottery’s Christmas special draw, and you can help choose which rescued pet it will be. Here are the contenders: Bess Bess is a friendly 12-year-old Border Collie, who came to Eden Animal Rescue in November after her owner passed away.… Read more »

November 10, 2014

Scouts dine out on Penrith Lottery grant

A group of Eden scouts are looking forward to getting in a big mess, thanks to a grant from Pride in Penrith Lottery. 1st Petteril Vale Scouts, based in Blencow, have been able to buy a communal mess tent, which they claim will make a “tremendous difference” to their future camps. “Until now at our… Read more »

November 7, 2014

Pupils bowled over by lottery grant

It's always a pleasure to see the difference that our grants make, so it was a lovely surprise to receive these photos from Shap Bowling Club. We gave the club a grant last year so that they could buy bowling equipment suitable for young people, to encourage more juniors to take up the sport and… Read more »

October 21, 2014

Lottery gives Winter Festival early Christmas present

Pride in Penrith Lottery has added some extra sparkle to the town’s Christmas merriments, with a grant towards the Winter Festival. The festival, organised by the Penrith Chamber of Trade, is a jam-packed selection box of entertainment, events and activities, which begins on 29 November and runs up until Christmas Eve. Lottery chairman Rob Udale… Read more »

October 20, 2014

Member’s generosity rewarded with jackpot win

A Penrith resident has scooped £5,000 in Pride in Penrith Lottery’s celebrity jackpot draw. Mrs Grace Purdham’s numbers came up after Cumbria’s most famous sheep, herdy, set off the computerised draw on Wednesday afternoon, 15 October. Mrs Purdham has been a member of Pride in Penrith Lottery since it began four years ago, and her… Read more »

October 2, 2014

Celebrity sheepish about Pride in Penrith Lottery draw

The mystery Cumbrian celebrity teaming up with Pride in Penrith Lottery for its jackpot draw next week has been unfleeced. It’s none other than woolly A-lister herdy. Cumbria’s most famous sheep has made room in his busy diary to travel to Penrith on Wednesday 15 October, where he’ll set off the lottery’s online draw and… Read more »

October 1, 2014

Help Pride in Penrith Lottery with a quick click!

We need a little help from all our friends and supporters to share some exciting news – we’re about to reach our full jackpot of £5,000 and a well-known Cumbrian figure will be making the jackpot draw for us! If you're on Facebook and Twitter, please take a moment to like and follow us, and… Read more »

September 25, 2014

Odds on for Pride in Penrith Lottery celebrity draw

A mystery Cumbrian celebrity is lined up to make Pride in Penrith Lottery’s £5,000 jackpot draw in a few weeks’ time.  The community lottery’s jackpot has been steadily rising by £100 each week and one lucky member will scoop the full jackpot of £5,000 on Wednesday 15 October, if no one matches all four numbers… Read more »

September 9, 2014

Lottery goes under cover at Langwathby

Langwathby’s children were going for gold on Saturday 6 September at their annual sports day, with a helping hand from Pride in Penrith Lottery. Thanks to a grant for £228 from the community lottery, the sports day organisers were able to buy five new gazebos so that they can run their events rain or shine,… Read more »

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