RN&RM Sports Lottery | Royal Navy

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Your Sports Lottery

Once you join the Royal Navy, you’ll be able to join the RN&RM Sports Lottery.

Every year over £480,000 in prizes and £1 million of grants is invested into enhancing the lives of our Royal Navy people.

With cash prizes to win every week and grants available year-round, everyone’s a winner!

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How to play

Lottery tickets are 75p per ticket per week and payments are taken from pay each month until a participant decides to withdraw or leave the Service.

Applicants may purchase up to a maximum of six tickets each week so that:

1 ticket = £0.75 per week x4 = £3 per month
2 tickets = £1.50 per week x4 = £6 per month
3 tickets = £2.25 per week x4 = £9 per month
4 tickets = £3.00 per week x4 = £12 per month
5 tickets = £3.75 per week x4 = £15 per month
6 tickets = £4.50 per week x4 = £18 per month

The money is disbursed as prizes and grants as follows:

Weekly lottery draws: 23%
Direct grants to ships / units / establishments: 34%
Indirect grants to associations / regions: 26%
Major Grants for large projects: 15%
Running costs: 2%

The RNSL is licensed through the Gambling Commission (GC). Every ticket paid for is entered into every weekly draw (52 separate lotteries), with winners selected using a GC approved random number generator computed.

Prizes are currently given out to the first six numbers drawn:

1st number drawn wins £5,000
2nd number drawn wins £1,800
3rd number drawn wins £800
4th number drawn wins £600
5th number drawn wins £500
6th number drawn wins £400

There are also extra monthly draws of 10 prizes of £100 alongside occasional enhanced first prize.

All prize winners will be notified by email and all results will be published through the following channels: