Local fundraising question

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I am part of a community group, that wants to hold a raffle at an event at Christmas. We want the prize to be a £100 voucher, that must be spent in one or more of the local shops (we're encouraging local trade).

Can anyone think of a good, fraud free, way of giving a voucher that can be exchanged in several shops? I'm thinking that they might want to spend £50 in the butchers, £30 in the greengrocers, etc.

You could give the prize out as 10x £10 vouchers. As it's a one-off thing I would be making the vouchers by hand including elements that would be difficult to forge. e.g. some elements that are printed on a computer printer and some that are hand drawn in coloured felt tip and/or those iridescent sparkly inks that expensive stationery shops sell. The colour elements could be the signatures of two members of the organising committee. Each token can be numbered too.

Who is actually subsidising the prize? Is there £100 cash being held centrally that the local businesses will claim back from, or are the butcher, grocer ettcc signing up to guve away an unpredictable portion of their business profits depending on the choices of who wins the prize?

If there is a central £100 you could have an extra layer of security that the business owner has to phone the mobile of an admin volunteer to register that token #8 has been accepted at the butcher shop, and that way keep track of what has been spent and what is still out there. That might be too much of an admin load for a small business to deal with though.

Can’t the business’ where you want the prize to be spent provide the vouchers?

You hand them over to the winner, they take them to the butcher etc to exchange.

Keep it simple