Selling of Raffle Tickets

James is correct - the audit trail required under the Lottery licence demands that the Promoter can account for all the tickets out there. The best way of doing this is to record the numbers of tickets against the names of people who have taken them to sell.

Think about it - a dishonest person takes a batch of raffle tickets, sells them and keeps the money; if you don't know who took which numbers, how would you ever be able to seek redress?

I'm sure the school is operating under a Data Protection Registration, and would be careful about not allowing the list to be distributed.

Cheers

Gerry

I don't see how, unless they were reselling the list of sellers or using it for other purposes. As I said, it's the sort of information you need to have to help prevent fraud, and any charity that asked people to act as its agents without finding out who they were would be acting a little carelessly, in my opinion!

I was just surprised to find that the school had noted the allotted serial numbers to actual sellers. Surely, this must be against Data Protection

Which bit do you think might be illegal, and why? I can't see how they could properly account for the tickets and sales without knowing who had which tickets. Doing anything else would leave them wide open to fraud.

James