CAR Lottery

Support Citizens Advice Reading (CAR) by playing our lottery

Win up to £25,000 every week and help us be there for people in Reading.

How it works

For every £1 you play each week you receive a unique six digit lottery number.

Every Friday a winning number is drawn at random. Match your digits in the same positions as the winning number and you win a prize. We will let you know when you start playing and you will receive your lottery numbers by email or post.

To play

You must be aged 18 or over
Choose how many £1 entries you want each week
Sign up online by Direct Debit or Debit Card
Complete your details and click submit

Give someone a voucher

Stuck for present ideas? Why not give someone a voucher and give them the chance of winning the £25,000 weekly jackpot?

With vouchers available for between £10 and £100, with 1 or 2 entries for 10, 20, 30 or 50 draws.

Why play

Your £1 Matters. Half of every pound goes directly to the heart of our service, funding the essential support we provide:

Protecting our services: For more than eighty years we have helped people find a way forward with debt, benefits, employment, housing and discrimination. We offer advice face to face by phone and online so everyone can reach us because a crisis can happen to anyone.

Training our fantastic team: We stretch every penny but it takes a full year and around £1,500 to train one volunteer adviser to the standard our community needs. Funding is under pressure and we continue to work hard to secure our future.

Changing the system: We don't just help individuals; we use evidence from our clients to influence national policy, working to prevent problems before they escalate and changing the system for many.

Meeting urgent need: Demand for our help continues to grow due to rising living costs and ongoing welfare changes. We work hard to meet this demand, helping over 5,000 in the first 6 months of 2025 (a service record!), but we can always do more.

Every ticket makes a real difference in helping us train more advisers and support more people in crisis.

Thank you for helping us help Reading.

Client story

One client came to us after losing her job and falling behind on rent. Our adviser helped her challenge an incorrect benefits decision and secure urgent support. With your help we can train more advisers so more people get the help they need.

What you can win

Win up to £25,000 every week plus other great prizes.

3 digit match = 5 entries into the next draw

4 digit match = £25

5 digit match = £1,000

6 digit match = £25,000

Your chances of winning

Unity offers some of the best odds of any platform of its kind. Because it is a number match game the odds are fixed so every lottery number has an equal chance of winning.

3 digit match = 1 in 69

4 digit match = 1 in 823

5 digit match = 1 in 18,518

6 digit match = 1 in 1,000,000

All players have a 1 in 63 chance of winning any prize.

Essential information

Each entry costs £1.

The draw takes place every Friday.

Players must be aged 18 or over.

Promoter

Citizens Advice Reading, Minster Street, Reading RG1 2JB.

Lottery licence

Licensed and regulated by the Gambling Commission.

Licence numbers: 000-006969-A-315016-007 and 000-006969-R-315015-013.

Profit split

From each £1 entry: 50% goes to support the work of Citizens Advice Reading, 18.4% goes to prizes and 31.6% covers administration.

Lottery rules

Read the full lottery rules

Responsible play

If you're worried about how gambling makes you or someone else feel visit the Gamble Aware website.

Gambling Commission

Find out more information about lotteries on the Gambling Commission website.

Ready to play?

Support Citizens Advice Reading and be in with a chance to win up to £25,000 every week.

Thank you for helping us help Reading.

External Lottery Manager

Unity is a common brand lottery jointly promoted by Sterling Management Centre Limited and individual society lotteries. Each Lottery operated under Unity is a separate licensed lottery, operated by and supporting that particular good cause. Unity is administered by Sterling Management Centre Limited, licensed and regulated in Great Britain by The Gambling Commission under account number 3137.