Welcome to The Big Summer Lottery 2026
It’s back! Guernsey’s very own opportunity to win huge prizes and invest in the lives of children is exploding into life for 2026.
And yeah, you know us — we’re always itching to increase the prize fund, but this year’s event calls for something extra special. We are blowing it into the stratosphere! It is our 10th birthday after all…
For the first time ever, over 100 prizes are waiting to be won in The Big Summer Lottery, with the highest-value prize pool in the draw’s history.
EARLY ACCESSThe 2026 prize list will be revealed in all of its glory in May. Until then, sign up to the VIP LIST to stay updated and get tickets ahead of the crowd:
“We are going all out in 2026 to celebrate 10 years of this incredible draw changing lives for children and their families in Malawi and in Guernsey too.”
Tom, Hope for a Child CEO
2026 KEY DETAILS
VIP Launch: Saturday 23rd May (Join the VIP list above)
Guernsey Public Launch: Monday 25th May
Big Draw: Monday 3rd August
Total ticket supply: 16,000
Ticket price: £50
Outlets: Hope Store (High Street), Aladdin’s Cave & several pop-up stall locations
Extra Draws:
4 x Bonus Draws
1 x Multi-Ticket Jackpot Draw
2 x10th Anniversary Cash Drop
EXTRA DRAWS 2026
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EXTRA DRAWS 2026 •
As a way of saying a big Thank You for being an eager beaver with your purchase, we are rewarding you with a chance to WIN more prizes in our 4 Bonus Draws, where an extra £6,000 is up for grabs!
All Bonus Draws are FREE and any tickets purchased by the deadlines below will be automatically entered. The earlier you buy, the more Bonus Draws you’ll get to take part in.
This means that all tickets purchased before Monday the 1st June will be entered into all 4 Bonus Draws — yippee!
When I say “Bonus”, you say “Draw”!
All tickets purchased before Monday 1st June will be entered.
PRIZE: £1,000
The bonus prizes keep on flowing!
All tickets purchased before Monday 22nd June will be entered.
PRIZE: £1,500
More free draws… Seriously??
All tickets purchased before Wednesday 1st July will be entered
PRIZE: £2,000
I can hardly take the winning…
All tickets purchased before Monday 20th July will be entered
PRIZE: £2,500
We are turning 10 and thought we’d have a little fun with it.
On the 10th of every month, we’re giving away 10 cash prizes of £100, and one lucky winner will scoop £1,000.
All you need to do is buy your ticket before that date of each Cash Drop.
There will be two Cash Drops: one on 10th of June and one on 10th of July.
Each ticket counts as an entry, so stack them up!
As is tradition, there will be a Mystery Prize this year.
We can’t tell you what it will be just yet (otherwise it won’t be a mystery), but what we can say is it’s designed for big ideas 💡
We reveal the Mystery Prize on Monday 15th June.
The Mystery Prize
It’s back! In addition to the £6,000 in prizes for our Bonus Draws, we’re also giving you the chance to win another £2,500 in our FREE Multi-Ticket Jackpot!
Here’s how it works:
To enter, simply buy a total of 2 or more tickets for this year’s Big Summer Lottery.
If you do so, all of your tickets will be entered into the £2,500 Multi-Ticket Jackpot Draw.
For example, if you get a total of 4 tickets for the Big Draw, all 4 tickets will be entered into the £2,500 Multi-Ticket Jackpot Draw.
The Multi-Ticket Jackpot Draw will take place just after the main draw on Monday the 3rd of August.
The FREE Pen is back!
Here’s something you don’t see every day. Not only is this amazing bit of kit both a pen and Highlighter — you can also use it to show off to your friends that you are part of something world-changing.
How can you get your hands on one of these beauties?
Buy 2 or more tickets, and get them from Hope Store or from one of our pop-up stalls, and we’ll give you one (strictly while stocks last)!
2025 First prize winner of £100,000
“I would like to say a massive thank you to all the lovely people at Hope for a Child.
You all work tirelessly to make a difference to enrich the lives of children in Malawi and families here in Guernsey. With all your hard work and dedication these children and families can continue to flourish.
It will take a very long time to get over the shock of the phone call I received Friday night from Kris asking me if I was sat down as he was advising me that I had won £100,000 from the Hope for a Child summer lottery.
I lost my husband in 2022 and we have one child and therefore this will go towards a deposit for a mortgage for which I never imagined would ever be a possibility for her.
There truly is not enough words to say how grateful I am to you all. X”
Do you qualify?
Entry into The Big Summer Lottery is limited to people aged 18 or over with a residential address within The Bailiwick of Guernsey.
Entering the lottery is not a guarantee that you will win a prize. Please do not spend money on tickets that you cannot afford to give to charitable causes.
The Causes
The Big Summer Lottery has been raising funds for Hope for a Child for the last 10 years, helping us meet our core costs and deliver life changing work in Malawi.
Because of your support, thousands of parents and carers are being enabled to provide a nurturing environment for their children, with access to good nutrition, safe water and education.
The Big Summer Lottery also benefits important children’s causes based here in Guernsey. These charities have benefited in the last 9 years:
