Help me spend 10-16k on raffle prizes!!

[FlamingoFloss]

I need your help please oh wise ladies of Mumsnet.

so every year I do a massive raffle at work. Think £10-16k worth of prizes depending on how many we sell. I usually have 80 prizes. What I need help with is what are the absolute must haves for this Christmas? Not kids toys although I do buy consoles and board games etc

thank you!!!

Spa day
6 sessions with a personal trainer
hair salon voucher
cream tea voucher
hotel stey
posh meal

Chess set
Backgammon set
inlaid wood with mother of pearl etc

Irrelevant to yours but at a law firm I worked in 20 years ago, all the partners would pool their airmiles and give in money and we would win (at the Christmas party) weekends away all over Europe, and one of the trainees in my year won a week in the Cayman Islands! Hotel and all expenses paid.
Those were the days.

AirPods
Dyson airwrap
Ghds
Led mask
Aspinall bag
Neom pod
John Lewis vouchers
Afternoon tea voucher
Spa voucher
Ninja ice cream maker
Kitchen aid
Chanel Bleu aftershave or Eau Sauvage
Champagne
Cocktail kit - Sapling or Fever Tree
The new Hotel Chocolate maker thing
Restaurant voucher

Look on something like Sheer Luxe online Christmas gift list as lots of things on there would make lovely prizes

I think that you need a couple of Christmassy ones in the mix

A set of really nice classic glass Christmas tree decorations
Pantomime tickets
A nice stocking with traditional stocking contents - candy canes, satsuma, chocolate coins etc.
A trip on a Christmas train or similar
Matching set of Christmas pijamas

Plus, I think it would be really nice to include a couple of decent value charity gifts if people who don’t want too much stuff win. £500 donation to a local food bank. £300 donation to a kids charity etc.

Ortigia scent/toiletries
Book tokens
Heal’s gift tokens
Wine
Fitbit
Fortnum’s hamper

Diptyque candles are lovely, they smell so fantastic. I’ve been gifted a few smaller ones over the years, and once bought one myself- but I think the joy of the massive one is that it’s SUCH an extravagance, no sane person would ever buy themselves one at that size- so winning it would be such a lovely treat.

Also the jars are the candle equivalent of having a fortnums wicker hamper in your hallway 😂

I agree that a mix of price points would be good say between £50 and £500.

An iPad

LED face mask

A Kindle

Penhaligons fragrance

Dyson hairdryer

Donation to a charity of their choice

John Lewis gift voucher

Luxury box of chocolates

A great cabin sized suitcase

Posh reed diffuser

Nintendo Switch 2

Portable Bluetooth speaker

Fortnum and Mason hamper

Creme de la Mer moisturiser

Bottle of champagne

Air Pods

Le Crueset casserole pot

OP says that the money raised from the raffle is what's used to buy the prizes, doesn't sound like it's a charity raffle

I'm retired now but still a member of the Social organisation (HASSRA) for various government agencies (mainly DWP). It costs to join, but there are loads of discounts and competitions with really good prizes - current ones have top prizes of £5k and LED TVs .....

Sorry - this sounds off. Your workplace runs a raffle where you spend most or all of the money raised on ticket sales to purchase the raffle prizes?
Pretty sure that’s not allowed. Depending on the type of raffle/lottery you’re running will depend on what you can do. You may also need a licence to run it & then submit a raffle return afterwards. I’m a PTA Chair & know a bit about raffles as we run a Christmas one. All our prizes are donated.

80 cash prizes of £200?

The names are drawn and then we draw the prize too

Thanks for pointing this out @APurpleSquirrel but we are all good on this front. We wouldn’t risk not being legally compliant and this has gone though our Legal team and all necessary licences have been applied for

Sounds fun. Does everyone win something?

Kitchen gadgets
Beauty gadgets
hamper of good quality food (source from local farmers/butchers etc)
meal vouchers
fancy alcohol and soft drinks
perfume/ aftershave set
family tickets to theme park
family photoshoot and paid for prints
spa day
voucher for sports shop

How much are the tickets ???

Breakfast at Tiffany’s in Harrods’.

Really high end champagne
Garden centre voucher
Pet supply shop voucher
Etsy voucher
Hobbycraft voucher or Cricut machine
Coffee machine
spa

I won't repeat the ones above but where I work you can purchase extra annual leave - so could one prize be an extra day of holiday?

Experience days - so a good buy a gift box for people to choose what they want?
Theatre Tokens (possibly more of you're London based)

Can I buy some tickets please as the prizes sound amazing.

@FlamingoFloss
My old place did a raffle like this. Prizes ranged from wine/chocs/Christmas stocking type things, vouchers for local businesses, household gadgets, up to big ticket items like gas bbqs, nice garden furniture, SUPs, games consoles etc.

Annual leave prizes were popular, there were a couple of 1 and 2 day prizes, and one prize of a week.

We also had a few cash prizes of £50 and I think 2 of £100. And the best cash prize, a jar of money. It seemed to be the change they got when buying the prizes so it was mostly fivers and £1/£2 coins but you didn't know how much was in there until you won and counted it, which added a little something I think. One year I won £187! That was a nice little bonus on Christmas Eve.

Tickets for a theatre show or opera, you could include dinner as a package.

Add in some 'small' prizes, a bottle of champagne, nice chocolates, bottle of perfume / aftershave.

Vouchers for something unusual eg a knife or sword making experience, jewellery workshop or medieval cooking course.

A private chef experience.

Some coins from the Royal Mint, they start at about a £10 and can go up to bars of gold.

Tour of a distillery / gin maker / brewery / cocktail making.

Ipad?

Picturehouse Membership (if you have a local Picturehouse cinema)

Fire pit