Hospice costs and Lottery players contribution to care

Your support makes a huge difference to all those whose lives we touch.

It costs £6.5 million to keep our hospices Mount Edgcumbe in St Austell and St Julia’s in Hayle open providing end of life support for people with terminal illnesses.

This care is provided free of charge, but funded by the community of Cornwall. 

Our NHS grant amounted to £1.105 million – representing 17%

Our amazing supporters raise the other 83% (£5.395 million).

Our weekly lottery and bi-annual raffles are recognised as excellent sources of this income and all the profits from playing the Cornwall Hospice Care lottery, go to funding the care we provide to the people of Cornwall

How much the lottery raises and how the proceeds are spent.

The Cornwall Hospice Care Lottery returns all its profits to the charity Cornwall Hospice Care.

In the last financial year ending March 2023, the lottery raised £754,117 income through ticket sales in both our weekly lotteries and biannual raffles.

58% (£439,477) of this income was donated to the charity Cornwall Hospice Care

Our expenses total £314,640 included.

38% £118,367 spent on sales and marketing including recruiting new players.

27% £85,500 went into the prize fund.

35% £110,773 spent on covering our running & administrative costs.

The likelihood of winning a prize for every ticket purchased:

In our weekly draw, 1 in 13,199 based on draw entries from April 2022 – March 2023.

In our Raffles 1 in 27,297 based on draw entries in the Raffles held in 2022.

Supporters of the Cornwall Hospice Care Lottery make a vital contribution to the cost of care.

We made a large investment this year into accruing new members to the lottery which will highly benefit the charity income and the care we offer to families needing our care in future years.

Thank you for your support.