Pharmacist Support: Gala Event Text Raffle
How Pharmacist Support uses DONATE™ text raffles at nationwide gala events to eliminate cash handling and give their central team instant visibility of funds raised, averaging £720 per raffle.
Pharmacist Support is an independent charity supporting pharmacists and their families, MPharm students, pre-registration trainees, and former pharmacists across Great Britain. The organisation fundraises through events run by local supporters across the country.
The Challenge
Traditional fundraising at gala events meant dealing with cash, paper raffle tickets, ticket stubs, manual draws, and the complexity of banking collections from multiple regional events. For a central charity team, this created significant administrative burden and delayed visibility of how much had been raised.
The Solution
The text raffle replaces all of this with a simple, digital process:
- Event guests text a keyword to enter
- Their mobile number becomes their raffle ticket
- DONATE™ provides the organiser access to pull winners from entered numbers during the evening
- Funds are automatically collected and reported
No cash handling. No banking. Instant results.
The Result
Total raised via text raffle programme: £2,233.75Average text raffle fundraise per event: £720
"DONATE™ answers our need to engage our supporters at our community fundraising events. The text raffle is so simple to set up and use."
- Emma Ronan-Peate, Fundraiser, Pharmacist Support