Support the Chichester Hall through the new Hythe Community Lottery

A new way to support Sandgate's Chichester Hall on Sandgate High Street.

Maintaining and improving the Chichester Hall costs thousands a year, paid for by hall hires, markets, grants and donations.

Playing the new Hythe Community Lottery on behalf of the Chichester Memorial Hall, Sandgate sees 50% of the value of your tickets go to the hall each week. It also gets you in the draw to win one of a number of weekly cash prizes up to the £25,000 jackpot!

If 100 people bought one ticket a week, that's £2,600 a year more income for the hall to spend on its upkeep, and 100 people a week that might win a £25k prize!

The Hythe Community Lottery is based on a lottery provider (Gatherwell) that works with 100+ councils across the country on such schemes. It's a well worked and understood system. 

With a large range of community organisations in Hythe and nearby Hythe Town Council have supported the £5k set-up fee so the lottery is available to all those groups: the set-up cost will hopefully be a small amount compared to the amount raised for local organisations every year from now on.

In Sandgate the maths would be very different: a much smaller number of organisations would benefit from the outlay. So I've spoken to Hythe Town Council, and they would be delighted if Sandgate based organisations that wanted to use the lottery as a fundraising route used the Hythe Lottery: you would be accepted, and treated on the same basis as any other participating group. So that's why the Chichester Hall has signed up, and I'd hope to see others soon!