What is Play Fund Win?

Play Fund Win manages 5 data types including leads. Helps you organize, track, and share your work in 1 place for teams and solo users.

What share of every pound reaches the club?

With Play Fund Win it's one transparent service fee on funds raised — no setup, no subscription, no licensing or registration fees. Traditional external lottery operators typically retain a meaningful share of each ticket (often quoted in the 40–60% range across the sector, depending on prizes and operator costs). Always ask for a specific, written breakdown before signing.

Who owns the supporter list?

With Play Fund Win, you do. Every supporter who pledges or enters becomes part of a member database that's yours to keep, export and email — GDPR-compliant. With many external lottery operators the player relationship sits with the operator, not the club.

Can we keep our existing donation platform?

Yes. Play Fund Win is additive — most clubs use it alongside their existing donation page. The point of Play Fund Win is recurring supporter funding and a licence-free prize-draw incentive, which donation sites don't offer.

Is this comparison legal advice or operator endorsement?

No — it's general guidance based on publicly available information about each model. Operator terms vary, fees change and your specific structure matters. If you want a tailored walkthrough, email hello@playfundwin.com or book a 15-minute call.

Choosing a Club Fundraising Platform

Club fundraising platforms, compared.

Most options make you choose between a prize draw buried in licensing and admin, or easy donations with no pull. Here's how the choices really stack up — on licence, the share your club keeps, admin and who owns your supporters' data.

Start with Play Fund Win Book a 15-min call

Two things decide it

Strip the marketing away and almost every conversation comes down to these two.

No licence or registration

Play Fund Win runs prize draws as free prize draws with a genuine free-entry route — so there's no Gambling Commission licence, no council registration and no annual returns. Most other prize-led platforms require one or the other.

Keep more

Traditional external lottery operators can retain 40–60% of every ticket across prizes, operator costs and fees. With Play Fund Win it's one transparent service fee — no setup, no subscription, no licensing or registration fees.

Play Fund Win vs the alternatives

How a Play Fund Win campaign compares to a manual 100 club / society lottery, a large external lottery operator, and a standard donation site.

	Play Fund Win	Manual 100 club / society lottery	Big lottery operator (ELM)	Donation sites
Licence / registration	None needed	Small society lottery — council registration	Operator licence required	None needed
Prize-draw incentive	Yes — licence-free	Yes — but registered	Yes — heavily regulated	No
Who runs the admin	We automate it	A volunteer with a spreadsheet	The operator (you have little control)	You — manually
The club keeps	More — one clear fee	Variable — minus prize and admin time	A share — operator retains a portion of each ticket	Most — but you raise less
Recurring income	Yes	Manual standing orders	Yes — but operator-controlled	Limited
Your supporters' data	You own it	In a spreadsheet on a volunteer's laptop	The operator owns it	Limited
Setup	Minutes	Weeks — council application	Months	Hours

Comparison is general guidance based on publicly available information; operator terms vary.

Five questions to ask any provider

Before you sign anything, get clear written answers to these five. They\'ll surface the real cost and the real control.

1
Do we need a licence or to register a lottery to run this?
2
What percentage of every pound actually reaches the club?
3
Who does the admin, the draw and any returns?
4
Do we own our supporters' data — and can we export it?
5
Can it do donations, recurring pledges and prize draws all in one place?

Comparing providers — your questions

Because we run the prize draw element with a genuine free-entry route — there's always a free way to enter with the same chance of winning. That structure sits outside lottery rules. A paid-only draw is a lottery and would need either council registration (small society lottery) or a Gambling Commission licence (external lottery manager). We are not running our product as a lottery.

The pull of a lottery. None of the paperwork.

One transparent service fee. A supporter database you own. Live in minutes.

Start with Play Fund Win

Free to set up · No licence or registration fees · One transparent service fee