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Holiday Wishes 50/50 Lottery

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Make your Holiday Wishes come true with our 50/50 lottery. Half of ticket sales will make up an ever-growing jackpot, while the other half will support St. Joe’s and the care our Hospital is proud to provide to the community. With three cash-prize early bird draws, and one grand-prize jackpot, you’ll want to grab tickets for your friends, family and yourself, too!

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Holiday Wishes 50/50 Lottery

estimated take home prize

$

Make your Holiday Wishes come true with our 50/50 lottery. Half of ticket sales will make up an ever-growing jackpot, while the other half will support St. Joe’s and the care our Hospital is proud to provide to the community. With three cash-prize early bird draws, and one grand-prize jackpot, you’ll want to grab tickets for your friends, family and yourself, too!

Grand Prize Deadline: January 3 at 11:59 pm
1st Early Bird Deadline: December 6 at 11:59 pm

Don't miss your chance to win!

10 tickets

$10

40 tickets

$20

most popular

160 tickets

$40

best value
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Early Bird Draws

We promised you even more chances to win, and we meant it! Important lottery draw dates and prizes are as follows. All draws take place at 12 p.m. (noon).*

December 7 Early Bird: $500 Cash Prize
December 14 Early Bird: $1,000 Cash Prize
December 29 Early Bird: $2,500 Cash Prize

*For full details see official rules at the bottom of the page.

Who You Help

When you purchase a ticket for the Holiday Wishes 50/50 Lottery in support of St. Joseph’s Healthcare Foundation, you’ll not only get the chance to win big, but you’ll also be supporting the Hospital that’s been caring for our community throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Healthcare funding from the provincial government doesn’t always cover the significant costs of upgrading patient care rooms, funding vital research studies, or purchasing much-needed medical equipment. That’s why your support of initiatives like our community lottery are so important. Funds raised will help St. Joe’s continue to offer hope and healing for the patients we’re honoured to serve.

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PREVIOUS LOTTERY WINNERS

Grand Prize - June 4, 2021

Winning Number: A-2530456

Lottery Winner: Pamella W.

Jackpot Won: $52,035

Early Bird - May 20, 2021

Winning Number: A-5703850

Lottery Winner: Erin K.

Prize: $500 Cash

Grand Prize - December 31, 2020

Winning Number: A-4327400

Lottery Winner: Thao Truong

Jackpot Won: $56,685

Rules of Play | Lottery License #RAF1224796

  1. A description of how each game is played:
    1. The lottery will take place online only, beginning Monday, November 22, 2021 at 12:00 am. Tickets may be purchased from www.stjoeslottery.ca. Purchasers must be 18 years of age or older to participate and must reside in the province of Ontario at the time of purchase.
    2. Tickets will be sold using an electronic raffle system supplied by Ascend Fundraising Solutions. After purchase, participants will receive a confirmation e-mail with their 50/50 registered numbers from a Random Selection System. Ticket numbers are generated randomly so specific numbers can not be requested by purchasers.
    3. The prize amount of the 50/50 will be updated in real-time on the lottery website: www.stjoeslottery.ca. By purchasing a ticket, you agree to allow us, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Foundation, Hamilton, and its licensed gaming suppliers providing services to this program, the right, if you are a prize winner, to use and publicly disclose your name, municipality of residence, image, photograph and likeness as a prize winner in any means required by the terms of our lottery license and/or that we consider appropriate for purposes of administering and promoting the lottery, without notice, review or approval or additional compensation to you.
    4. The lottery will have three (3) Early Bird Prizes and one (1) Grand Prize which will be awarded according to the amounts and timelines below. A representative of St. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation Hamilton will contact the winner of each draw by phone and/or email.
    5. Regulations prohibit the following individuals and their immediate family members residing in the same household from participating in the lottery: St. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation Hamilton Staff and Board of Directors, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton Executive Team and Joint Boards of Governors, employees of Ascend Fundraising Solutions, and members of licenced gaming suppliers providing services to the Lottery. Employees of St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton are permitted to purchase tickets, provided the above regulations do not apply.
  2. Prize values for each game
    1. The first Early Bird Prize will be $500.
      • All tickets purchased by 11:59 pm on Monday, December 6, 2021 will be eligible to win.
      • The winner will be drawn and announced at Noon on Tuesday, December 7, 2021.
    2. The second Early Bird Prize will be $1,000.
      • All tickets purchased by 11:59 pm on Monday, December 13, 2021 will be eligible to win.
      • The winner will be drawn and announced at Noon on Tuesday, December 14, 2021.
    3. The third Early Bird Prize will be $2,500.
      • All tickets purchased by 11:59 pm on Tuesday, December 28, 2021 will be eligible to win.
      • The winner will be drawn and announced at Noon on Wednesday, December 29, 2021.
    4. The Grand Prize will be equal to 50% of the gross ticket sale revenues.
      • There will be a guaranteed grand prize of $9,999.
      • All tickets purchased by 11:59 pm on Monday, January 3, 2022 will be eligible to win.
      • The winner will be drawn and announced at Noon on Tuesday, January 4, 2022.
    5. The winning ticket holder has 6 months in which to claim their prize from the date of the draw.
    6. Unclaimed prizes will be reported, and a charitable allocation will be approved by AGCO.
  3. Methods for concluding a game that does not proceed as intended or approved
    1. Each draw concludes with one winner being selected in a controlled environment, selected electronically by Ascend Fundraising Solutions’ 50/50 solution.
  4. Tickets are sold in packages, at the following price points:
    • 10 tickets for $10
    • 40 tickets for $20
    • 160 tickets for $40
  5. Methods for determining winners for all prizes including Early Bird Prizes and Grand Prize:
    1. The winning ticket number will be selected by a Random Number Generation (RNG) system from all raffle numbers sold for the draw.
    2. The system is supplied by Ascend Fundraising Solutions. Selection of a ticket number as the winning ticket of an Early Bird Prize, will NOT cause this ticket number to be removed from contention for the Grand Prize or any other Early Bird Prizes. Therefore, it is possible that the same participant may win more than one prize, should one of their ticket number(s) by selected by the system in more than one draw.
    3. Each winner must arrange to collect their prize in person at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Foundation. At this time the winner must provide their name, address, and phone number as well as a piece of photo ID, and the email receipt with their winning lottery ticket number on it for verification.
    4. Once the winner is verified, they will be awarded their prize by cheque and will have their photograph taken.
    5. By entering this lottery, the winner consents to the use of their name and photograph for advertising and publicity purposes. Each winning ticket holder has 6 months during which to claim their prize from the date of the draw. Unclaimed prizes will be reported, and a charitable allocation will be approved by AGCO.
  6. Each draw concludes with one winner being selected in a controlled environment, selected electronically by Ascend Fundraising Solutions’ 50/50 solution.
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