Gaming

The Prince's Trust is for the first time offering VIP Packages to the Party in the Park as prizes in its online raffle.

The National Trust has used e-mail marketing to promote its annual Property Raffle.

The charity sent an HTML e-mail, working with
Charity Technology Trust and using digital messaging agency Frontwire's e-mail marketing tool Workspace.

The message was sent to 45,000 individuals who had agreed to receive such messages from CTT this month.

Macmillan Cancer Relief has used the services of Charity Technology Trust to promote its first online raffle.

South African online lottery company Wildlifewins.com has launched in the UK.

Describing itself as "a cause-oriented for-profit organisation dedicated to raising awareness of, and funds for, serious conservation projects around the globe", Wildlifewins.com says that it will offer a £14 million weekly online lottery.

A major charity raffle scam has been uncovered in Australia.

A man from Melbourne, Australia, has been charged over an alleged $8 million raffle scam involving a legitimate charity as a front.

Raffles and auctions are undoubtedly the most popular online events used by charities to raise funds. Some of the prizes and lots now on offer are impressive.

If you run charity lotteries you can now share experiences and advice via the new Lottery-Management e-mail discussion list.

Find out more about Lottery-Management on the list of fundraisers' e-mail discussion lists.

ThirdSector magazine reports this week on the jailing of a man who had made £500,000 from a bogus charity scratchcard scheme. Tommy Stuart, 59, was jailed by Manchester Crown Court for three months. Stuart's company was called Fund-raising UK Ltd. This should not, of course, be confused with Fundraising UK Ltd, which is the company that publishes this Web site.

It's Halloween this month and some online fundraisers are taking advantage of this seasonal event. PlusLotto, some of the proceeds of which benefit the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, is rerunning its instant game, Witches to Riches.

How much influence should the UK public have in which charities receive grants from the National Lottery Charities Board?