Check out Community Lottery key dates, and add them to your organisation’s calendar.
The Community Lottery website is updated regularly with all the latest Lottery updates and we’ll send emails to the nominated contact person at your organisation with important info, too.
Prize draws take place at People’s Choice Credit Union’s head office at 50 Flinders Street in Adelaide. If you want to come along for the draw, please report to the reception desk at level 14.
Community Lottery group applications open | TBC |
Online ticket sales begin | TBC |
Online sales for Early Bird prize close | TBC |
Early bird online ticket prize draw | TBC |
Early bird prize winner advertised | TBC |
Paper tickets distributed and sales begin | TBC |
Ticket sales close 11.59pm ACST | TBC |
Prize draw | TBC |
Prize winners advertised | TBC |
Your organisation will receive 100% of each and every $2 ticket you sell.
Funds from tickets purchased online for your organisation will be paid into your organisation’s account via direct deposit, you’ll receive your fundraising payment within four weeks of the ticket sales end date.
If your organisation returns sold paper tickets, and all funds raised, to your organisation’s nominated branch by the ticket sales end date, you’ll receive your fundraising payment within four weeks.
Fundraising deposits received after the ticket sales end date may take up to eight weeks to be returned to your organisation.
The participating organisation will receive 100% of funds raised back to their organisation. It is the responsibility of the individual organisation to determine if they are required to be registered for GST. Furthermore, it is the responsibility of the individual organisation to determine if they are liable to report and pay GST on any funds received from the Community Lottery. To assist in the remittance of funds, organisations will need to provide their ABN as part of their application to the Community Lottery.
Yes! People’s Choice offers an account for both incorporated or unincorporated community groups.
If your organisation or your members would like to consider opening a Business Account, simply follow the steps by clicking here.
Tickets can’t be purchased in the name of an organisation, but they be purchased in the name of a President, Secretary or Treasurer, with any prizes won going to the organisation.
In case your Gmail account marks Community Lottery emails as spam, please follow the below simple steps to add Community Lottery as a whitelist in Gmail
Step 1: Log in to your Gmail account
Step 2: Click on the Settings cog in the top-right corner and go to Mail settings.
Step 3: Select the Filters tab from the choices
Step 4: Click on Create a new filter, near the bottom
Step 5: In the From field, add ‘People’s Choice Credit Union’ and ‘Community Lottery’ so our emails never land in your spam folder, using capital OR between each address/name.
Step 6: Click the Next Step button after you're finished entering all the information.
Step 7: Tick the box next to Never send it to spam and then click Create Filter.
That's it! Now you’re all set up to never miss an important Community Lottery email. Who knows you could be one of our lucky winners!
Community groups across Australia have raised almost $19 million through the People’s Choice Community Lottery since 1984.
The Lottery makes fundraising easy for the sporting clubs, schools, pre-schools and other not-for-profit organisations with participating groups keeping 100% from every $2 ticket they sell.
People’s Choice and our partners meet all the costs associated with prizes, promotional material, advertising, printing of tickets, and coordinate all administrative essentials such as distribution, licensing, and statutory requirements - leaving participating organisations clear of any cost.
2020 Community Lottery Prize list coming soon.
The Early Bird prize draw will take place at 50 Flinders Street Adelaide and winning ticket number published in the Adelaide Advertiser and on our website communitylottery.com.au.
The final draw will take place at 50 Flinders Street Adelaide and winning ticket number published in the Adelaide Advertiser and on our website communitylottery.com.au.
Prize draws take place at People’s Choice Credit Union’s head office at 50 Flinders Street in Adelaide. If you want to come along for the draw, please report to the reception desk at level 14.
There are 900,000 Community Lottery tickets. With each ticket priced at $2, that’s a potential $1.8 million returned to the community.
You’ll receive an email to your organisation’s nominated address with login details to apply for the lottery again this year. Here, you can login to review your profile, set up your online fundraising page and request paper ticket books.
With 900,000 Community Lottery tickets to be sold, we ask that each participating organisation sells a minimum of five books, or 50 paper tickets.
All requests for Community Lottery paper tickets are capped at 1,000 books, or 10,000 tickets, per organisation.
Sales of online tickets, however, have no limits per organisation and do not affect your allocation of paper tickets. Upon registering to participate in the Lottery, your organisation will automatically be signed up to sell tickets online.
Collection and return of your Community Lottery paper tickets will be from your nominated People’s Choice Credit Union branch, as specified upon application.
No, there is no cost whatsoever to participate in the People’s Choice Community Lottery. With the support of our business and media partners, People’s Choice meets all costs associated with the Lottery, including the provision of prizes, printing of tickets and display material, point of sale opportunities, administration, advertising and promotion.
If you answered yes to all of the above, then you could be eligible to participate.
Groups that are ineligible to participate include individuals, private enterprises and corporate social clubs.
If you’re new to the Community Lottery, just complete an online application to sell tickets.
You can nominate ticket sellers for your organisation on your application, and we’ll provide certificates of authority for them to sell Lottery tickets on behalf of your group.
Sellers of Community Lottery tickets must be 15 years or older, unless they are accompanied by, and under the supervision, of an adult.
With hundreds of groups and higher demand for tickets than we are able to supply, it’s important that any unsold tickets are returned to People’s Choice as soon as possible, so that we can distribute them to organisations that might be able to benefit from their sale.
Please be realistic about your organisation’s selling potential, and only apply for the number of tickets that you believe your organisation can sell. Not only is it unfair to prevent other organisations from benefitting from the Community Lottery by selling more tickets, but unsold tickets returned too late to redistribute might affect your organisation’s participation in the Lottery next year.
Each year, the Community Lottery is broadly advertised on a variety of media channels including television and online media.
People’s Choice also publicises the Lottery and its participating organisations wherever possible, so if you’ve got a great story to share about how the Community Lottery has helped your organisation, what you’re fundraising for, or your quirky way to sell tickets, let us know.
Community Lottery group applications open | TBC |
Online ticket sales begin | TBC |
Online sales for Early Bird prize close | TBC |
Early bird online ticket prize draw | TBC |
Early bird prize winner advertised | TBC |
Paper tickets distributed and sales begin | TBC |
Ticket sales close 11.59pm ACST | TBC |
Prize draw | TBC |
Prize winners advertised | TBC |
Check out Community Lottery key dates, and add them to your organisation’s calendar.
Yes, your organisation is required to deposit the equivalent funds for all sold paper tickets so we can then process a 100% refund.
We don’t accept cash, but we’ll accept a cheque in-branch for the total raised, made payable to ‘People’s Choice Community Foundation.’
Alternatively, you can deposit the funds by EFT to the People’s Choice Community Foundation account:
Account Name: People's Choice CF
BSB: 805 050
Account Number: 63497228
Narration/Reference: Your Organisation ID and Name
We need to be able to contact winners after the Community Lottery draw, so we need the name and address of the ticket purchaser on every paper ticket stub and when tickets are purchased online.
This info is collected so we can notify winners, and won’t be used for any other purpose.
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