Lottery syndicates

Lottery syndicates can be extremely exiting.

With everyone from your workplace taking part, you can buy more tickets and you therefore have more chance of winning. But it’s not all about the win. Having a syndicate at work is a lot of fun and a great way to enjoy doing something as a team.

However, despite the amazing feeling that most syndicates feel when they have matched their lottery numbers, there can be occasions when someone doesn’t play fair.

This happened recently when Steven Drew, who ran a lottery syndicate at his place of work, stole the lottery syndicate winnings and then claimed that he had been robbed at knifepoint. Steven has since been sentenced to eight months in prison for perverting the course of justice and theft.

A quarter of all jackpot winning tickets are bought by syndicates so it is certainly worth doing. But as with anything, if a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.

So if you do decide to set up a syndicate at your place of work, ensure that it is all made official. The first step is to request a free syndicate kit, from the National Lottery, which should tell you everything you need to know about running a syndicate.

With the help of this kit, you can draw up a group agreement which acts as a contract between you and the other players. This will ensure that you don’t end up in the same situation as those who worked with Steven Drew.