Parenting & Family
Win Cash for Christmas
£500 cash
Parenting & Family
£500 cash, paid to the winner before Christmas, to spend on Christmas however you like. Presents, the food shop, a day out, or just a quieter December. It's your money, with no strings. Tickets are 5p each, and the draw runs on the closing night for everyone to watch.
Prize value£500
The things most people want to check, before the full text.
Who can enter18+, UK residents
Max per person1,300 tickets
Entries close15 Nov 2026, 19:30
Free entry routeYes, by post
If it doesn't sell outDraw still happens
Entering
- Entry fee. Entry costs £0.05 per ticket.
- Tickets available. A maximum of 26,000 tickets are available in this competition.
- Entries per person. You may hold no more than 1,300 entries in total, across the paid and free postal routes combined.
- Closing date. Entries close on Sunday 15 November 2026 at 19:30. Entries received after this time will not be accepted.
- Free entry by post. No purchase is necessary. You may enter free by post. Full details are on our Free Entry page. Postal entries must be received by us by the Closing Date. Send your entry to: NetCompetitions Ltd, 17 St. Peters Place, Fleetwood, Lancashire, FY7 6EB.
- Eligibility. Open to residents of the United Kingdom aged 18 or over. Full eligibility rules are in our Terms & Conditions.
The draw
- Odds. The maximum odds of any single ticket winning are 1 in 26,000. If not every ticket is sold, each ticket's chance is better than this.
- Draw date. The winner will be drawn on or shortly after Sunday 15 November 2026 at 20:00, by automated random draw, shown as a visual draw on the competition page.
- The draw is guaranteed. The draw goes ahead on the Draw Date and a winner is selected regardless of how many entries are sold; we do not cancel, postpone or extend a competition because of a low number of entries. If every entry is allocated before the closing date, the draw may be brought forward to an earlier published time (terms clause 4.10). Clause 7.3 of the Terms applies.
- Provably fair. The random seeds that decide this draw are fixed before entries close: a cryptographic fingerprint of each is published on this competition page from the moment entries open, and the seeds themselves are revealed after the draw, so anyone can check the result against what was fixed in advance on the verification page. See how our draws work.
- Winner notification & claims. Winners are notified, and must claim their prize, as set out in clauses 5.4 to 5.6 of our Terms & Conditions: we contact the winner as soon as possible, the prize must be claimed within 30 days, identity is verified before release, and the prize is redrawn if it is not claimed.
The prize
- The prize. The prize is a cash sum of £500, paid to the winner by bank transfer to a UK bank account in the winner's own name. We confirm that the account name matches the name on the winner's account and may make reasonable checks before paying.
- Winner publicity. The winner's surname and county may be published, and we may ask (never require) the winner to take part in publicity. The winner may object to publication as set out in the Publicity section of our Terms & Conditions.
Other conditions
- Site credit. Any site credit won or awarded will expire on the date stated when it is added to your account.
Promoter: NetCompetitions Ltd, registered in England and Wales (Company No. 07533343). Free entry by post is available on every competition, see the free entry route.
Every draw is done by computer, and anyone can check it afterwards.
- 1Your ticket number is set the moment you pay. Nobody chooses which number you get.
- 2Only sold tickets can win. Unsold numbers are never in the draw.
- 3We can’t change the draw algorithm once tickets are on sale. The winner comes from the tickets actually sold, put through a secret code we lock in before sales start. Because the code is locked and we publish proof it’s locked, we can’t swap it after seeing who has entered, and the check after the draw would show it if we had.
- 4You can check it yourself. After the draw, press Verify and your browser repeats it. It should pick the same winner.
- 5Every winning ticket number is published, with the winner’s first name and surname initial if they agree.
Technical details
Proof of the secret ticket numbers code · published 15 Oct 2026, 17:41
88b5be6a05712a501498a88871176fbe21c5850dcdfb32486d34ba535b1bcbcc
Proof of the secret draw code · published 15 Oct 2026, 19:30
13d2dc1eeeaf4c4184db9c78388372c9c57bdbd8b6675d612a649a9ecbd8ab66
Your odds, 1 ticket1 in 26,000
Free route oddsIdentical
Draws completed35
Winners published35
Entries closeSun 15 Nov 19:30
DrawSun 15 Nov 20:00
18,914 tickets remaining27% sold
Price per ticket£0.05
Max per player1,300
Total tickets26,000
Number of tickets
Total£5.00£4.75
No purchase necessary. A free postal entry goes into the same draw as every paid ticket, with the same chance of winning.
One postcard counts for 22 tickets
As many entries as a second-class stamp would buy at this competition’s ticket price. Each postcard needs its own stamp.
Send a postcard to
NetCompetitions Ltd - Free Entry17 St. Peters Place, Fleetwood, Lancashire, FY7 6EB
Write on it
- your full name and postal address
- the email address on your NetCompetitions account
- your date of birth
- the competition title exactly: Win Cash for Christmas
- its closing date and time: 15 November 2026, 19:30
It must reach us by 15 November 2026, 19:30. The per-person limit on this page applies to paid and postal entries combined.