Great Tips from One of Our Winners!

It’s great to hear from our previous winners. It’s easy to forget that real people take home these prizes – but play the game right – or get lucky and any of our prizes could be yours!

One of our winners was lucky enough to win a £2000 shopping spree and pamper day at Selfridges, a gold plated Mont Blanc pen AND a cashmere baby gift set!

In her blog she describes Raffle.it as ‘curse free’ as with other charity auctions you can often pay over the odds or feel robbed after for spending more than you intended or than the object was worth. This is what we love about it too – you can spend a couple of quid and win something fabulous.

She has some interesting insights on how to play the game – check it out at on her blog http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/09/28/deborah-friedell/winners-curse/

Raffle.it Widget caught in the wild

Marvel in the loveliness of our widget and look out for it on blogs and charity sites.

If you see one, tell us where using the comments below and we’ll send you something nice.

We’ve got Soul with War Child

We’re all really proud to welcome War Child onto our raffle network.

War Child is a small international charity that protects children living in the world’s most dangerous war zones. They currently work in Iraq, Afghanistan, Uganda and the D.R. Congo. Their long term vision is to have a world in which the lives of children are no longer torn apart by war. This is reflected in their mission: to support and strengthen the protective environment for children who, as a result of conflict, live with a combination of insecurity, poverty and exclusion. To find out more please visit their website.

Your raffle ticket purchases can now benefit War Child directly! Select them as your charity and they will receive 80% of the profit from each ticket you purchase! To see which raffles they’re taking part in go to: WarChild.Raffle.it –  have fun doing good today.

Also, don’t forget War Child’s new single ‘I’ve got Soul’ by Young Soul Rebels (including the likes of Tinchy Stryder). Getting this into the Top 10 will give War Child the exposure they need to really change children’s lives. Buy it from iTunes, Amazon, or Play.com.

43 winners on one day. Approximately £67,000 of goodies currently winging their merry way to their new owners.

“I can’t believe it”, “it is real?”, “I can’t wait”, “I’m so excited”… we’re so happy to have been asked by Mothers4Children to host their big raffle event. Hopefully we’ll get to post some of the winners enjoying their prizes real soon.

For now though I wanted to share the most asked question .. where we go from here?

The whole Raffle.it team have enjoyed the feeling that we may have helped, in some small way, to make a difference. We wanted more! So we’ve been looking at what worked and perhaps more importantly what didn’t work during Mothers4Children’s event, and have come up with a service to support as many great causes as will let us … at the same time! The last 3 months saw us dedicate our site to Mothers4Children, obviously this approach is just not scalable.

So we’ve just created 1 million raffle.it sites!

Each one is available for adoption by a great cause. They can brand the site with their logo and add information about them and it even comes with an easy to remember web address .. name.raffle.it. But just giving all these great causes their own raffle.it is all very well but what about raffle prizes?

Having chatted to a number of charities, we learned that it’s not so easy to get desirable prizes donated and certainly not sustainable. So there’s often a requirement to underwrite prizes which is crazy when the aim of a raffle is to raise funds.

We can fix this easily we thought. We’ll source some prizes and serve these across all of the different raffle.its. Each charity can then sell as many or as few tickets in these raffles without the risk or burden of having to pay for prizes to be delivered. Something else magical happens with this collective approach. We’re all selling tickets in the same raffles, each of us perhaps selling a small number of tickets … but it adds up to a whole lot of tickets being sold. Each raffle, as always, still has a maximum number of available tickets so raffles will finish much sooner, the game we’ve dared to imagine finally delivering true edge of your seat excitement as you play to hold on to unique numbers.. battling it out to bag the most desirable or prizes.. all the while donating to the causes most great to you.

The raffle is evolving. Stay tuned for more exciting developments.

If you are involved with or know of any great causes please get in touch or tell them about us. We’re an impatient bunch and want all 1 million sites to be adopted like yesterday!

36 hours…£67,000 of prizes…43 winners

In 36 hours we’ll be giving away £67,000 worth of prizes to 43 lucky winners…will you be one of them? Every prize is going so get your tickets while you can! Remember, every penny you spend on tickets goes to charity Mothers4Children.

Last chance to:
Get your Jimmy Choo’s for £1 http://raffle.it/raffles/20006
Win 3 limited edition Tracey Emin signed prints for £2 http://raffle.it/raffles/20056
Live in luxury for 8 days for £3 http://raffle.it/raffles/20017

Want the best chance of winning? WThese raffles haven’t sold many tickets, but we are giving away the prizes! Get in there now while you can!
An Asprey gorgeous evening gown, worth £2,500, yours for £3! http://raffle.it/raffles/20031
This Montblanc gold plated top quality pen – only £1! http://raffle.it/raffles/20035
or
The new Ralph Lauren Polo Baby Ricky bag? Again yours for just £1 http://raffle.it/raffles/20051

Giving to charity never felt so good! Play and Enjoy

Are you a charity? It’s your turn to benefit from Raffle.it!

Those of you who avidly read this blog will already know that sadly our Mothers4Children big win raffle is ending the 18th September. We’ve had great fun doing it…so have decided not to let the giving stop there! We already have a plan, and are working hard to help as many charities as possible. It is really simple. If you are part of a charity and want to know more then please e-mail us on charitybegins@raffle.it!

A Raffle a Day Helps a Child Play

You may have seen Mothers4Children’s logo throughout the site, but may not know yet what it’s all about. Currently 100% of the money you spend on tickets is passed to Mothers4Children. All the prizes currently on our home page have been donated by the brands to show their support for such a worthy charity. Show them your appreciation too by entering every raffle (if you entered every raffle currently on the site it would cost less than £80 and could net you over £67,000 in amazing goodies).

What are Mothers4Children doing?

Founder, LisaB is creating a sisterhood passionate about bettering the lives of children all over the world. Together with trustees including Yasmin Le Bon, Trinny Woodall, Natalie Massenet and Anya Hindmarsh, they are using their connections and influence to raise money for and the profile of children’s charities in the UK and Europe. The two charities currently being supported by Mothers4Children are Kidsco and F.R.O.D.O (The Foundation for the Relief Of Disabled Orphans).

Kidsco, reach out to over 13,500 children who have experienced severe and multiple trauma in the UK. They help those who are without any real adult support and care, resulting in them turning to drug running, prostitution or gangs in their depleted communities. They never turn a child away, no matter how disturbed and offer relentless love and support. Their site is worth a visit to read some of the success stories.

F.R.O.D.O is a unique charity which identifies orphans and abandoned children with disabilities or life-limiting condition, then strives to provide medical treatment in the hope to transform their quality of life, and increase the number of opportunities for them to fulfil their potential. Visit their site to really understand what they are doing.

So now you know where your money’s going get raffling! Enjoy donating money with the added excitement of potentially winning fabulous prizes. And if you don’t win, you’ll still feel great about entering.

This is what we love about Raffle.it.

A big thanks to the donors, the team at Mothers4Children and especially you for helping us make this such a special event.

When will it all end?

We often get asked ‘When are the raffles ending?’ This is a question we’ve struggled to answer. We apologise now to anyone who has been confused by the estimated 14 days left displayed on the website. It says this because the timer is based on the frequency of ticket sales, if sales aren’t frequent enough it automatically states 14 days. Soon a less confusing system for everyone will be in place.

However! The end is in sight! I can exclusively reveal ALL raffles will end by the 18th September latest, regardless of how many entrants there are. This means there is a really high chance of winning on some of the raffles, especially those where not many tickets have sold!

So please, accept our apologies for the confusion, and take solace in that soon that amazing Gucci handbag or pair of Jimmy Choo’s could be yours.

What is this lowest unique number jargon?

To all of us here at Raffle.it the phrase ‘lowest unique number’ slips off the tongue easily, yet when we’re trying to explain it to other people we get a slightly blank look? As baffling as this is to us…we can see their point. It is one thing to come up with a great new concept – another to get people to have a clue what we’re talking about!

Therefore we decided to re-wind and make life easier for you. Clement and I took to the streets of Guildford on a mission to explain the game. So if you fancy knowing how to play, or want to laugh at us being cheesy then here is your opportunity! Let us know what you think…

Raffle.it Daily Give Aways

Great to see the Raffle.it Daily Give Aways went well. Lots of interest from lots of new rafflers. Check out the results here. Useful information in those results ..

Lowest unique numbers were 1, 5 (twice) and 7.
The lowest number that no one chose was 4.

Go check out the results as we’ll be running more interesting free raffles very soon.