Monday (lottery)

Monday - The Charities Lottery is a new not-for-profit lottery in the United Kingdom, which is played over the internet or by post. The name comes from the fact that the draws will happen on Mondays. The first draw was scheduled for 2000 BST, Monday 8 May 2006 but was delayed to midnight the same day due to technical difficultiesLottery site delays deadline The Register.

Supported Charities

Monday will support the following 70 charities.
*Acorns [1]
*Action Medical Research [2]
*AMBER (charity) [3]
*Army Benevolent Fund
*Arthritis Research Campaign
*Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus [4]
*Association of Children's Hospices [5]
*Barnardo's
*The Big Issue Foundation
*Born Free Foundation
*Brain and Spine Foundation [6]
*Breast Cancer Campaign [7]
*British Heart Foundation
*British Red Cross
*Cancerbackup [8]
*CARE International UK [9]
*Chase Hospice [10]
*Child Brain Injury Trust [11]
*Children in Crisis [12]
*Children in Scotland [13]
*CLIC Sargent
*Counsel and Care [14]
*Crisis
*DebRA [15]
*Enham [16]
*Fairbridge [17]
*Family Holiday Association [18]
*For Dementia [19]
*Help the Hospices' [20]
*Home-Start [21]
*Jubilee Sailing Trust
*Macmillan Cancer Support
*Marie Curie Cancer Care
*Mencap
*Meningitis Trust [22]
*Mental Health Foundation [23]
*Motor Neurone Disease Association [24]
*Multiple Sclerosis International Federation [25]
*Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre [26]
*Multiple Sclerosis Society [27]
*National Autistic Society
*National Deaf Children's Society
*ORBIS [28]
*PDSA
*People & Planet
*Prostate Cancer Charity [29]
*Queen Elizabeth's Foundation [30]
*Rainbow Trust [31]
*Rethink [32]
*RNID
*Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
*Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League [33]
*Samaritans
*Scope
*Seafarers UK [34]
*Sense (charity) [35]
*Shelter
*Shooting Star Children's Hospice [36]
*Sight Savers International [37]
*Sound Seekers
*Sports Aid (charity) [38]
*St. John Ambulance
*Talking Newspaper Association [39]
*Trees for Cities [40]
*UK Coalition of People Living with HIV and AIDS [41]
*War Child
*WellChild [42]
*Whizz-Kidz [43]
*Wooden Spoon (charity) [44]
*WWF

See also

* National Lottery

References

External links

* official Monday, The Charities Lottery website
* official Chariot website
* "'Fairer' lottery set for launch" BBC News Online, 20 April 2006 - Accessed 3 May 2006
* "Charity Partner Details" www.chariot.org.uk - Accessed 3 May 2006

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