Everyone's a winner with our new Hospice Lucky Numbers!
ONE of the best-loved charities in the north is set to boost its finances after teaming up with Scottish Provincial Press in an exciting new fundraising venture – and you can be in with a chance of a cash windfall too!
From this week, Hospice Lucky Numbers will be a regular feature of the Strathspey and Badenoch Herald and SPP's other newspapers covering the Highlands and Moray.
Our easy-to-enter prize draw will be an important new source of income for Highland Hospice, which for 25 years has been providing support across the region to people with incurable life-limiting illnesses.
Highland Hospice requires over £3.9 million each year to keep its services running and no charge is made to any patient or their family. Approximately a third of the funding needed comes from the NHS, but the hospice relies on the generosity of the public to help raise the rest through fundraising.
By entering Hospice Lucky Numbers, not only do you have the chance to win a tidy sum for yourself – you are helping to raise the staggering amount of money needed to continue offering hospice services in your area.
SPP gains no direct financial benefit from operating Hospice Lucky Numbers. Instead we get the satisfaction of helping a charity whose work is admired and valued throughout the north – and the pleasure of handing over a nice wad of cash to one of our readers every week!
So everyone's a winner in this innovative promotion which we hope will capture the imagination of readers across the SPP area in the weeks and months ahead.
SPP's managing director Thelma Henderson said: "We are delighted to link up with Highland Hospice and to be able to support its work through Hospice Lucky Numbers. We share our readers' admiration for the invaluable range of services provided by hospice staff, not just in Inverness but all around the north.
"This is a win-win situation. Our prize draw will raise considerable funds for the work of Highland Hospice, it will give readers an opportunity to claim a sizeable sum of cash for themselves, and it will underline the role of all our newspapers as being at the heart of their communities.
"We have invested in a high-speed numbering printer which allows us to include sequential six-digit numbers in all our newspapers and we are sure it will be a big success.
"We are appealing to all our readers to look out for their Hospice Lucky Numbers every week and get involved. You've got to be in it to win it... so please check your numbers and get texting!"
Andrew Leaver, director of fundraising, retail and communications at Highland Hospice, said: "We are excited to be launching Hospice Lucky Numbers and would like to thank Scottish Provincial Press for running the draw without making a profit themselves. This is a hugely generous way to support the hospice and we are very grateful.
"I also hope people will enjoy reading more about Highland Hospice in their local newspaper over the coming weeks.
"I would urge as many readers as possible to enter the draw as the more people who enter, the more money will be raised for Highland Hospice, and the bigger the cash prize will be for the lucky winning reader each week."
