National Lottery

A Forces in Mind programme which will help ex-service personnel to readjust to life as regular civilians has recently been announced by the BIG Lottery Fund. The programme will be funded by £35 million of lottery money and will benefit veterans of the armed forced all over the country. The intention is not simply to help individuals to make the transition from active service to regular life in the short term, but to also provide long term support wherever this is deemed to be necessary.

The first Millionaire Raffle winner to opt for publicity has said that he will now fulfil his lifelong dream of visiting New York. Ashley Beaumont, who is 63 years old and lives in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, was the sixteenth person to win the Millionaire Raffle game. He won £1,000,000 in the Millionaire Raffle draw on Friday 19 February, and the win has not only delivered Ashley a great deal of financial freedom, but it has also made it possible for him to now take his first holiday for a dozen years.

An optimist is a person who sees the best in every situation and expects even better things to happen in the future. Anyone who reads this website regularly will have noticed that a very high proportion of lottery jackpot winners were also quite optimistic about their chances beforehand. So does this mean that lottery optimism is a key to jackpot winning success or is it just an interesting coincidence? Read on and we think that our conclusion about lottery optimists might surprise you…