Annual Raffle

Each year the PBC Foundation holds a national raffle. We send out books of raffle tickets to our members for sale to friends, family and work colleagues. The money raised from the sale of those tickets is vital to help us to provide our services and continued support.

This year’s raffle tickets will be available with the May 2010 issue of the Bear Facts so to those of you who were not lucky last year, you might be in 2010.  Remember: “You’ve got to be in it to win it”.

Tickets cost 1p each (£5 per book of five), if you would like us to send you tickets to sell or to give to someone to sell on your behalf please e-mail us here at the office at with the amount of tickets you would like.

Congratulations to all of our winners and thank you to all of you who bought the tickets as without you this raffle would not have been possible.  After payment of prizes and printing costs, around £3,200 was raised by the selling of the raffle tickets; this will go a long way to help us continue to provide our much needed services.  The annual raffle was drawn on 30 October 2009 and the lucky winners are as follows:

First Prize (£250) 

John Dempster, Lochgelly, Fife   

Second Prize (£150) 

Norma Johnson, Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan

Third Prize (£100) 

Jean Hatton, St Albans, Hertfordshire (generously donated £25 back to our funds)

Runners Up  (£10 each) 

Sheridan Homer, Manchester

Joyce Kirk, Barnsley, S Yorkshire

Mrs M Thomas, Grantham, Lincolnshire

Mrs J Lowe, Invergordon, Ross-shire

Joan Evans, Cinderford, Gloucestershire

John Price, Colchester, Essex

Thelma Weir, Spennymoor, Co Durham

Caroline Mills, Clydesdale Bank, Edinburgh

Margaret Clark, Doncaster, S Yorkshire

M Lawson, Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire