How would you share your lottery winnings? Tell the National Lottery - £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

[AmeliaMumsnet]

Let’s just spend a few moments dreaming about winning the lottery! How would you spend a big windfall? The National Lottery would love hear who you would share your winnings with if you scooped a life changing Lotto prize?

Here’s what The National Lottery have to say: “Amazingly there are over 4,600 National Lottery millionaires now in the UK winning £1 million or more. And what’s lovely to hear is that 95% of winners say they share their jackpot prize with family, charities and friends; with one third helping their children first.*

Real winner stories:

· Matt – I paid off Mums mortgage aged 28… it was the best feeling in the world
· Trish – I’ve set up investments so that years from now my son will be a millionaire just like me
· Natalie – before the win mum gave us so much help with the children, it was amazing to take her on a dream trip to New York to show her how much we love her and appreciated all her support.

That’s what they did, so now tell us: Who would win if you win? Who tops the list of those you would treat and why? "

…would it be giving your DH the ‘boys toy’ he has always wanted?

…or perhaps rewarding Mum & Dad for all their help and support over the years?

…how about an all-expenses paid girly holiday in the sun?

…or is there an individual or community project you’d love to support and help make their dream a reality?

…or how about you invest in a holiday house that everybody can enjoy for years to come?

Everyone who posts on this thread telling The National Lottery about who they would share their Lotto winnings and how will be entered into a prize draw to win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck,

MNHQ

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*Source: Camelot UK Lotteries

The boring stuff - buy our own house, new cars, make sure my close family are comfortable, house etc
fun stuff! - Epic holiday to disneyworld

I always said initially Id pay for a lovely meal with my 3 DC so we could sit down and work out together where we want the money to go. I want to set up a social housing scheme whereby we buy houses and do them nicely, then rent out at the same level as LHA so the tenant gets a nice home for no extra money than the local councils are willing to pay. We have had to rent privately for 20 years since disability hit us and the standard of private rental homes is disgraceful.
We are also fund raising for defibrillators in local villages, my brother in law collapsed suddenly this week and he only made it to hospital because of the proximity of a defib. We live very rurally and it could make so much difference to people. As much money as possible would go to that scheme.

After paying off mortgages for my family and friends and setting up a university fund for DD I have a cunning plan for a new charity scheme. I have spent a lot of time thinking about this, it would need a huge amount of funding so a lottery win is the only way I could get it up and running!

If only this were speaking from experience! I would love to help out my mum and dad, get them the dream retirement home and some help in the house and with care so no need to go in a care home, then as both my sisters live abroad knowing that I could go and see them whenever I wanted would be fantastic!

I would move abroad and put enough away for my son's education, buying his first house etc...

I'd buy my brothers and sisters a house each, and one for me too!

Firstly it would be the immediate family- money in trust for our children and money for both mine and my DH's siblings and parents. I'd give enough for them to move to a nice house or pay off their mortgages and improve the homes they have, plus extra to enable them to retire early with plenty of nice holidays or invest in a new business etc.
Then for more distant family and for close friends it would be a nice five figure sum (how big would depend on how much I'd won, if it was euromillions it may be 6 figures). It would be enough to allow for an investment, or a few good holidays and would hopefully help with debts and make people more comfortable.
If I could afford to, I'd give more money going forwards to family/friends who had a genuine need for a business investment etc or had fallen on hard times but not to anyone who'd just frittered it away thinking they could come back for more.
If I won big I wouldn't be too extravagant so I wouldn't take kindly to anyone else being that way either.

Id pay off ours and our families mortgages and debts and put plenty aside for our daughters university fund and to support her too.

As my daughter is training to be an architect I would allow her to design and build houses for both me and my husband and our kids for when they are ready to move out on the same plot of land. Roberts village!
I would also fund her to either renovate or build from scratch a bunch of houses for rehabilitation of homeless people. I'd also like to find something to help them get new jobs etc.
Other than that it woood just be putting money up and random bits and pieces such as travelling with my kids!

I'd buy a house for me and my little girl I'd also finally be able to drive and get a car! Be able to go on holiday! I'd be able to do the normal things that everyone else already has unfortunately! But I know I wouldn't become selfish I'd want to give some to charity especially people who are homeless and for cancer research I'd also help family out with what ever they need and definitely save and invest also have money stored and saved for my little girls future for university and other things!

Aside from all the selfish purchases (I could absolute justify buying one of each from Mulberry), I would love to set up some sort of PND charity/support service for women and their partner's in Northern Ireland.

Move to a bigger house in a more des res area and then help out siblings and elderly parents. And give money to charities.

Would aim to be moderate and not showy with newly won wealth though.

Or that's how I'd like to think I'd behave...

Roof extension. Pay of my mortgage and my parents' mortgage. Buy some bloody great clothes. Cleaner twice a week. Hop to Hawaii. Kids in private school. A sodding great donation to GOSH after the negativity surrounding recent case - they are awesome.

Personal trainer. Chef. I'd finally get into my jeans again.

Treats for family and friends. Invest in my blog. Give back. And have fun.

Give up full-time work so I can be there for DC who has a chronic health condition- probably volunteer with The Samaritans (if they'd have me) and the local food bank, pay off mortgages and other loans for family, set up trust funds for kids so that if anything happened to me, they'd be OK, have a lovely holiday and generally enjoy being rid of that gnawing worry about money.

I'd give my sister a good chunk; the rest would buy my perfect house and as good a lifestyle as I could afford without having to work again.

If I had a big win I'd give my mum, sister and two aunts generous lump sums.
Donate to my wonderful local animal rescue.
Give up work and enjoy life with some luxury holidays each year.

I would pay off the mortgage, build a new house. Make all the family comfortable, set up a trust fund for our daughter, go on a very long holiday and buy holiday homes around the world, including a Disney Villa at Golden Oaks.

I would help my children to get on the property ladder, to make sure they are provided for then I would give my mother anything that she wanted as she has worked so hard all her life and is still doing so at the age of 78.

I just want to be able to reduce my working hours to spend more time with my daughter. I am a single parent and I work full time by the I pay childcare and living expenses I am left with next to nothing. It would be nice not to have to worry about bills.

I'd buy my mum and dad a bungalow, as my dm is my df's carer. Only after he had a fall, and many months in hospital, he was told he'd never walk again. They currently live in a semi, but it's got an upstairs. My df is currently sleeping in the living room.

After sorting them out, I'd fly off to Mauritius with my Dh and dd's all inclusive. It's on my bucket list ☺️

Ooh - I'd put aside a big pot of money for DD's university fees and sustenance. Then she'll be able to do any course she likes; even the really expensive ones like architecture or anything at Harvard.

She's currently 2, and is mostly into plastic tea sets and colouring, so I might be planning a bit too far ahead I guess...

I would work tirelessly for the homeless of Swansea for free and build a building with beds for them to sleep and eat in for free.

I'd give some money to family so they don't have to worry about money, paying off mortgages for family members too. I'd invest in property, and organise some big family holidays for everyone to enjoy.

All I've ever dreamed about from aged 10 is having my own static caravan so after I'd bought myself that then I'd keep half for my 5 kids futures then split the other half between my dad, 2 little sisters, 2 aunties, 9 cousins and 2 best friends because we havent grew up with money on council estates so I'd want them to enjoy a break from the life worries too = it'd be no fun spending it alone

I have soooo many plans! I want to win one of the super large amounts then I can follow through on all of them!

I will fund Crisis at Christmas fully, and invest lots in providing supported housing for long term homeless who need support to maintain a tenancy.

I'd love to create nursing homes for older lesbian an gay people who can have their partners to live with them without feeling judged by other less tolerant residents, and pay good staff well so they really do care and provide a great atmosphere and support for the residents, no need for profit or paying shareholders so can be affordable but great!

There's a large area locally that had social housing knocked down but all deals since have fallen through so it's still just a vacant area; I'd love to build co-housing community, affordable and social housing mixed to rebuild a supportive an sustainable and life-long community and housing.

I volunteer with local search an rescue team, very under funded, so would provide incident control vehicles to aid in efficient searching for missing people, and technology needed to do this.

Of course family and friends would have mortgages paid and gifts of money given, and for myself, there's an old house Id love to renovate and add walled garden to as always dreamed of having a walled garden, and a dog hydro pool and agility barn and as much glass and a large kiln for my own hobbies of glass and ceramics work and dog training and rehab. And a motorhome as so much of Britain and Ireland I'd love to see still
I've honestly not spent hours dreaming this up! (Yeah right!)