A total of 30 local good causes have signed up to benefit from the new local lottery that will be drawn for the first time in April.

More organisations have been urged to register their interest at www.robinhoodlottery.co.uk

Tickets, priced £1, can be bought at the lottery website from 27th March, with the chance of winning cash prizes, including a £25,000 jackpot, and free tickets. The first draw is on 27th April.

The weekly draws will see 60p from every £1 ticket going to charities, voluntary organisations and other good causes that work in the area.

People can register online and set up regular payments to buy tickets and choose which cause they would like to support. Those who do not select specific causes will see their 60p share go into a general pot, which will be divided among all the causes registered.

Mansfield mayor Kate Allsop encouraged people to get involved and support groups by buying a ticket.

“This is an opportunity to give local good causes a financial boost,” she said. “People have more chance of winning with the Robin Hood Lottery.

“We have been overwhelmed by the number of causes registering and we encourage more to sign up online.”

From each £1 ticket, 60p goes to local good causes, 20p to the prize fund and 20p to running costs and VAT.

Gatherwell, a lottery management company, is running scheme, on behalf of the council.
The first Robin Hood Lottery draw will take place on Saturday, 28th April.

Causes registered to benefit from the lottery are: AFC Mansfield, Armchair Club Sports Foundation, Clearways Counselling Service, Emily Harris Foundation, Forest Singers, Forest Town Community Council, Fountaindale School Fund, Friends of Hornby Plantation, Harmless, Home Start Mansfield, Ladybrook Community Centre, Learning Ladder Childcare, Life Skills Educations Charity (DARE), Mansfield Community and Voluntary Service, Mansfield Powell Rangers, Mansfield Sea Cadets and Royal Marines Cadets, Mansfield Soup Kitchen, Mansfield Welfare Rights, Mansfield Woodhouse Millennium Green, Millside Hospital Radio, My Sight Mansfield, Nottinghamshire Hospice, Nottinghamshire Search and Rescue Team, Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, Redgate School Fund, Sherwood Colliery Swimming Club, SSG Suicide Support Group Mansfield, Warsop Athletic FC, Yeoman Park School Fund, Robin Hood Lottery General Fund.