I can see where you are coming from Lord Trowell. The only thing I would say is that Alnwick Town  my local club do a similar draw but I only pay £2 a week but thd payouts range from £300 a week up to £3,700 for a roll over. The club pick three letters every Monday night and you have to match them I pay for five letters a week. It costs £1 for four letters. When the roll over got to three grand there was a real buzz around the town! People can buy entries in a number of shops and local pubs and on the night of the draw in the clubhouse or pay by direct debit like I do!
I would suspect that the club must take about £600 a week to make the payouts about 50% of income.
I am suggesting that maybe the club could have made it a more interesting prospect for those investing in tickets.

I've said we need a week thing.

With over 500 fans at home games and loads of kids at the club. We must have something we can sell every week

I did put this on here a few years back. Just go and ask the hows and whys and whats...
It's doing good work... and publishes results.
https://www.ctfc.com/fans/500-club/


 

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http://www.robinsnestforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=16652
 

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I think it would be a good idea to have a dedicated website page which lists all of the 100 club members and the prize winners each month. 


 

I would be happy for that to happen! Only one wobble? If you only knew! The WhiteBallProject is 23 years old this year. I'm planning something big for 25th anniversary like a post without a spelling mistake!

City/Town Populations....
Here's an interesting thing I saw today - posted in terms of wondering about level's of support, pro rata (but worth a scroll anyway!). I'd love to be more helpful to Il'son - but I hope sometimes sharing stuff from a not too disimilar % wise fan base might been seen and read. 

Never mind... Here goes... I'm thinking it could maybe be a '500 Club' for Il'son... It does not have to be supporters who buy in. Launch it too local clubs and bars... public venues. So long as people can see that Ilkeston benefits, ITFC benefits and it is suitably transparent. 

I pay two x £5 a month - one for me one in my son's name (forgiving he's a Ram). I, for one, would subscribe to a more up front/open 'ITFC 'lottery'. Needing to see prizes and club benefit outcomes reported too.
Maybe revisit the package. Does the the whole thing need a review? Monthly cost (lower) and even ratio of prize awards (lower)...? And of course the transparency... There must be a doer with the skills... This has legs...