Text Raffles for Schools and PTAs
How schools and parent-teacher associations across the UK replaced traditional paper raffles with digital text raffles, with results including £870 profit for Grand Avenue Primary and double the previous year for Eversholt Academy Trust.
Paper raffles have been a staple of school and PTA fundraising for decades - but they come with significant overhead: designing and printing tickets, selling them door to door, collecting cash, and manually drawing winners. Text raffles replace all of that with a mobile-first experience.
How It Works
Supporters buy raffle tickets by texting a keyword. Their mobile number becomes their ticket. DONATE™ handles the entry, the draw, and the winner notification automatically.
Available ticket prices: £3, £5, £10, £20, and £30
Real Results from Real Schools
Friends of Rodings Primary
"Our first ever text raffle...we managed to raise £585 using the DONATE™ text raffle service."
- Jennifer Juttner
Eversholt Academy Trust
Doubled their previous year's fundraising total compared to their traditional paper raffle.
"We have raised a phenomenal amount - double what we raised last year using the paper raffle."
- Maz Preen
Grand Avenue Primary
Made £870 profit from their text raffle, with the savings on printing and ticket preparation contributing significantly to the net result.
"The whole process has been brilliant...we found this was well worth paying, for all the printing and ticket folding it saved!"
- Lauren Crawford
The Bottom Line
For schools and PTAs, text raffles eliminate the admin burden, remove cash handling risk, and make it easy for parents to buy tickets from wherever they are - at pick-up time, at home in the evening, or from family and friends further afield.