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Donate £10 to Lumos and have dinner with JKR

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fromorbit · 01/06/2025 13:38

JKR has made a very generous offer on Twitter:

J.K. Rowling
https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1929113511004664078

I mean this, by the way. Donate £10 to lumos, I'll draw three names out of a hat and we'll have dinner. It could be KFC, but the wonderful JamesChiavarini has just suggested his restaurant, so it might be there instead (travel and accommodation on me if you're not in London).

Offer stands! Applications close at midnight on Monday. A £10 donation means your name will go into the draw.

https://wearelumos.org/how-you-can-help/donate/

If your name’s chosen and you’re outside London (or the UK) I’ll pay for travel and accommodation.

Once donations have been verified with Lumos I’ll select three donors’ names at random (can’t promise a literal hat, but who knows).

I’ll match the total sum donated to Lumos between first offer and midnight Monday.

And once my three fellow diners have been chosen, we’ll have a vote on whether we’re having KFC or going to Il Portico.

Additional offer from John Boyne:

John Boyne

£10 donated to Lumos. Whoever has the good fortune to win the raffle and have dinner with you, I'll donate £1,000 to the charity of his or her choosing.

This was inspired by JKR's ongoing twitter spat with Jolyon:

I've never sought to auction dinner with myself at a Michelin-starred restaurant with ‘a selection of wines from [my] own cellar’ as you have, Jolyon, but if anyone wants to bung Lumos £10, I'll draw a name out of a hat and we'll split a KFC bargain bucket.

https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1929113511004664078

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mrshoho · 06/06/2025 23:32

Yes i got the new email and have entered successfully. Then again I've been out and had a few so I assume it's all legit!

Boiledbeetle · 06/06/2025 23:31

ScoldsBridal · 06/06/2025 23:09

So I got sent another email (I tried earlier but website was down) - it’s a link to a Google Docs form. I’m so paranoid though - is this what other people who already donated have received a link to?

Yes. At least I think that's what it was!

ScoldsBridal · 06/06/2025 23:09

So I got sent another email (I tried earlier but website was down) - it’s a link to a Google Docs form. I’m so paranoid though - is this what other people who already donated have received a link to?

Boiledbeetle · 06/06/2025 22:54

potpourree · 06/06/2025 22:42

Personally I wouldn't enter a draw to win a meal with a saint or a genius. That's not what makes me want to spend time with somebody, but to each their own!

Edit - but I have entered this draw!

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Well... it would be rude not to wouldn't it!

potpourree · 06/06/2025 22:42

Personally I wouldn't enter a draw to win a meal with a saint or a genius. That's not what makes me want to spend time with somebody, but to each their own!

Edit - but I have entered this draw!

nocoolnamesleft · 06/06/2025 22:22

Boiledbeetle · 06/06/2025 22:20

Try your junk folder, both my emails today have gone in there. They were from Lumos.

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Yeah, mine were in the spam folder.

Boiledbeetle · 06/06/2025 22:20

Workisntworking · 06/06/2025 21:40

When did people get the emails and who from? I donated last week and haven't received the email.
So I don't think I'm entered now?

Try your junk folder, both my emails today have gone in there. They were from Lumos.

nocoolnamesleft · 06/06/2025 22:13

Likewise.

NotAnotherBagpiper · 06/06/2025 22:03

I just had another email saying it's back up...and successfully submitted my entry

MoistVonL · 06/06/2025 21:45

It’s still down. Poor sods!

Workisntworking · 06/06/2025 21:40

When did people get the emails and who from? I donated last week and haven't received the email.
So I don't think I'm entered now?

Delphin · 06/06/2025 19:50

Yes, still overloaded. I will try really late tonight or early tomorrow morning, in the hope that it is indeed just masses of fans trying to access the site and not a DDoS.

CervixSampler · 06/06/2025 19:44

I can’t access it. I tried earlier and it wouldn’t finish submitting and now I’ve got this.

Donate £10 to Lumos and have dinner with JKR
Words · 06/06/2025 18:55

Hello @borntobequiet ! Hope all well Flowers

PorgyandBess · 06/06/2025 18:00

I donated but have no interest in the meal bit. So I don’t want a refund (how petty would that be?).

borntobequiet · 06/06/2025 17:34

Words · 06/06/2025 15:37

Don't be so patronising please.

I've been here for very many years and always been puzzled by the massive fangirling of JKR. She is in my opinion a very average writer who managed to hit it big with clever marketing.

I don't think she is quite the saint or genius people make her out to be.

I don’t enjoy her writing, but others do. She’s immensely successful and much of her early popularity was word of mouth as Harry Potter got children reading in a way they hadn’t for decades.
Add to that she’s generous to a fault and has endured years of people carping at her and lately threatening her with grace, tolerance and courage. No wonder she’s admired.

AlexandraLeaving · 06/06/2025 17:17

Words · 06/06/2025 15:31

Then why set up this dodgy 'joke' fundraiser?

As I understand it, her original offer was to match all donations made within the first 48 hours.

She is now offering to do this AND double-match any withdrawn donations.

Either way, the charity gets a lot of benefit from the event.

Soontobe60 · 06/06/2025 17:04

By ‘we are’ you mean ‘I am’.

Soontobe60 · 06/06/2025 17:02

Words · 06/06/2025 15:37

Don't be so patronising please.

I've been here for very many years and always been puzzled by the massive fangirling of JKR. She is in my opinion a very average writer who managed to hit it big with clever marketing.

I don't think she is quite the saint or genius people make her out to be.

It doesn’t really matter what you think - clearly book sales amounting to millions of £££££s show that most people think differently to you. No need to be so petty, your jealousy is peeping through,

Soontobe60 · 06/06/2025 16:59

mrshoho · 06/06/2025 14:13

I'm the same. I will try again later.

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Me too

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 06/06/2025 16:52

I’ll try again Not2 thanks

MounjaroMounjaro · 06/06/2025 16:48

I got the email and was shocked that people might pull out of this but still want to be in the draw.

NotNatacha · 06/06/2025 16:24

akkakk · 06/06/2025 15:13

I think she is matching any withdrawn donations - not all donations - but then I suspect a big chunk of her money probably already supports Lumos...

JKR said right, from the start that she would match donations made by midnight on Monday - see in the opening post on this thread

I’ll match the total sum donated to Lumos between first offer and midnight Monday.

She’s now saying that if those donations are withdrawn she’ll still match the original amount.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 06/06/2025 15:56

Words · 06/06/2025 15:09

Oh dear. Seems as well thought through as a Meghan Markle business plan!

She should shelve the whole idea, donate a few spare million to this charity and bung her friend at Portico a handsome amount also.

Why should she shelve the idea? Loads of people would love to win dinner with her. If you're not one of them, don't enter.

Lumos is one of her own charities. She's estimated to have donated around a quarter of a billion to charitable causes, as well as paying all her taxes and not using any tax avoidance schemes.

Criticise her for not agreeing that trans people are more important than female people if you must. But suggesting that she doesn't donate enough to charity is rather idiotic.

anyolddinosaur · 06/06/2025 15:55

Now that it's a free prize draw and not linked to donating there is no reason donations cant be gift aided.

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