Promoter: PDSA Trading Limited, Whitechapel Way, Priorslee, Telford, Shropshire TF2 9PQ. PDSA Trading Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of veterinary charity PDSA. Registered charity nos. 208217 & SC037585. PDSA Trading Limited is licensed by the Gambling Commission.
Responsible persons: Nigel Spencer and Emma O’Reilly are responsible for this raffle; please contact at the Promoter’s address shown above.
PDSA Trading Limited is licensed and regulated in Great Britain by the Gambling Commission under account number 4769.
Raffle terms and conditions:
This draw is open to all residents of Great Britain (England, Scotland & Wales) over the age of 16, who reply by the closing date. Employees of PDSA, their agencies and advisors are ineligible. Payments for raffle entries received after the closing date will not be entered and will be treated as a donation to PDSA.
We will use the personal data you supply in order to verify your age in accordance with our obligations under our operating licence issued by the Gambling Commission. We have a legal obligation to ensure the people who play and enjoy our lottery and raffle games are over the age of 16. This means that we may use your personal data for the purposes of carrying out random age verification checks, either from information you have provided PDSA, or from using information available from a range of commercial, public, or open sources such as the edited electoral role.
PDSA is committed to protecting your personal information and will never exchange or sell your details to another organisation for their own marketing purposes. We would like to let you know about our work with sick and injured animals, including fundraising, volunteering, pet insurance, and animal welfare issues. To provide you with the best possible experience we will also use your personal information to help us decide what you may like to hear about and to personalise our advertising, communications, and services. If you’d like to ‘opt out’ of our marketing and fundraising communications call our friendly supporter services team on 0800 0199 166 or write to us at ‘Freepost PDSA’ and tell us your contact preferences. For more information regarding our Privacy Policy please visit pdsa.org.uk/privacy-policy.
Prizes: Prizes will be awarded in order of selection, and winners will be notified within 10 days of the draw date and a list of winners will be available here. Winners agree, at the Promoter's request, to participate in all promotional activity (such as publicly and photography) surrounding the winning of the prize, free of charge, and they consent to the use of their name and image within PDSA marketing or promotional materials.
Speed draw terms and conditions:
Open to all residents of Great Britain (England, Scotland & Wales) over the age of 16, who reply within the first seven days of the raffle being opened. Employees of PDSA, their agencies and advisors are ineligible. The speed draw prize will be given to the first name drawn from those eligible players, on the draw date. Only one entry per person. No purchase required. To enter the speed draw without buying raffle tickets, send your name and address and reference to speed draw on a plain postcard to: PDSA, Whitechapel Way, Priorslee, Telford, Shropshire TF2 9PQ. Entries received after the closing date will not be entered.
How the raffle proceeds are used:
In 2020 our Raffle proceeds were £868,264.00, of that 86% was spent on helping poorly pets, 8% on prizes and 6% on expenses. Based on all of PDSA’s 2020 Raffle draws, the odds of winning a prize are 1 in 7,616.
Responsible gambling:
No more than £20 worth of tickets ’40 chances’ per raffle may be sold to any one individual as part of PDSA's commitment to social responsibility.
Gambling can be great fun, but it's also important for players to know when to stop and what the danger signs are. If you think you may be developing a gambling problem, need help or you suspect someone may have a gambling problem, please refrain from buying or selling tickets. Contact details of BeGambleAware - telephone 0808 8020 133 or visit www.begambleaware.co.uk. Alternatively you can visit GamCare at www.gamcare.org.uk.
You can also use our online form to tell us how much to let you spend on each raffle. Please click here to set your gambling limits.
PDSA operate a Self-Exclusion Procedure which will prevent a player from entering any PDSA raffle or gaming product. If you wish to be self-excluded, then please click here.
If you would like to install software on your computer to block online gambling, help is available from GamBlock.
Complaints and disputes:
PDSA takes seriously any complaint, and you can download our complaints procedure here.