Age UK Northamptonshire

About Age UK Northamptonshire

Age UK Northamptonshire is a local charity providing services and support to older people and their families in Northamptonshire. Everything they do enables older people across the county to love later life. They believe later years should be fulfilling years, whether you are going through tough times or want to socialise and make new friends, they are there to help.

They provide a range of services, some free and some for which there is a charge, all aimed at improving people’s quality of life. The charity’s support enables thousands of older people to live independently for as long as they wish and are able to. They work to prevent frailty, poverty and loneliness.

Information & Advice Service provides free, confidential and independent advice on matters that affect older people. The advisers carry out telephone benefit checks and help older people to complete Attendance Allowance forms. In the financial year 2021/2022 they helped people living in Northamptonshire claim £2.6m in welfare benefits.

Telephone Befriending is a free service aimed at older people living in Northamptonshire who feel isolated and are at risk of being lonely. A friendly volunteer will call for a regular chat on the phone. The charity tries to prioritise people who do not have family or friends they feel able to rely on.

Their Extra Help Team is funded to provide care for people in their own homes in the last weeks of life and also supports the patient’s family.

Age UK Northamptonshire also provides practical services that are provided by reliable, trustworthy staff who make a huge difference to people’s everyday life - Gardening Service, Handyperson Service, Toenail Cutting Service and Home Care Cleaning Service - and their three day centres give older people somewhere to meet friends, enjoy stimulating activities and feel looked after.

From your very first game, you will be helping Age UK Northamptonshire to raise vital funds that will go back into the community, to support older people. Visit their website to learn about the other support they provide that is not mentioned here. Some examples of what your contribution could pay for:

• £25 can provide the day centre clients with fun, stimulating activities that will have a positive effect on their wellbeing.
• £50 helps them provide free information and advice to older people who have no one else to turn to for help.
• £75 contributes towards the cost of helping someone make a successful claim for Attendance Allowance which can be life-changing.
• £100 means staff can provide information and support to people with a recent diagnosis of dementia, at groups around the county, improving life for them and their families.

Registered Charity Number: 1059995
www.ageuk.org.uk/northamptonshire

How To Play The Lottery

Each entry to the draw costs £1. Our draws are run every week of the year, usually on a Friday. You can either set up a membership to provide your chosen cause with a regular and reliable income, every week of the year, or you can play as and when you want to, whatever suits you best!

Lottery fundraising is a really easy and fun way to provide good causes with an income that they can plan for the future with. You need to be 18 or over and living in Great Britain to take part.
Last year (April 2022-March 2023):

• Lottery Income that went towards charitable causes = £573,922.20 (38.9%)
• Lottery income that went on expenses = £741,499.80 (50.3%)
• Lottery income that went on prizes = £132,500.00 (10.8%)

What are my chances of winning?

Any prize = 1 in 204 tickets entered into the draw will win a prize.

These figures are estimated using current plays and figures and can vary slightly from each week. These are an approximate and can be updated at any time.

In total, there were an average 27,819 weekly plays across our charity partners, with 6,734 prizes being given away over the year.

Please call us if you would rather set your lottery membership up over the phone 0300 303 4500.

How Do I Win?

When you join, we will allocate you with a lottery play number. Our draws are randomly drawn each Friday (with exception when this is a Bank Holiday, when it will take place the working day prior). You don’t need to check the results every week, although you can if you want to. If you win, we will contact you to let you know. If we have your email, your prize winnings will automatically go into your make a smile lottery account; where you can then request a withdrawal, after which monies are then transferred into your bank account, or if you don’t have an email with us, a letter and cheque will be sent via post (please make sure that we have your up to date address).