A £10 ticket. A £2,500 live draw. A reason that runs deeper than the prize.

Dementia Lottery Scotland is operated by Dementia Drive CIC, a Scottish Community Interest Company registered at Companies House under company number SC861664. We’re a social enterprise — not a charity — and every penny raised (after prizes and essential running costs) funds free wheelchair-adapted transport for people living with dementia and their families.

No — and that is a deliberate, considered choice, not an oversight.

We are a Community Interest Company (CIC): a legal structure created specifically for social enterprises that exist to benefit the community. CICs are regulated by Companies House and the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies. They carry a legal “asset lock” — our surplus and assets are legally restricted to community benefit and cannot be paid out as dividends to anyone, ever.

OSCR (the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator) regulates registered Scottish charities. Because we are not constituted as a charity, OSCR is not our regulator. That is the correct legal position, not a mistake.

We chose the CIC route on purpose because:

• It gives us the speed and flexibility to deliver practical help to families now, without the administrative drag that delays support when it’s needed most.
• It lets us trade openly and sustainably as a social enterprise, instead of being dependent on grants that can dictate priorities.
• The CIC asset lock provides exactly the protection people associate with a charity: no one can take the value out of the organisation for private gain.

Our actual regulators and oversight bodies include Companies House, the CIC Regulator, our Scottish licensing local authority (which issues and oversees our Small Society Lottery licence), HMRC and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Yes. Dementia Lottery Scotland operates under a Small Society Lottery licence issued by our Scottish licensing local authority. We are properly registered and renew our registration annually.

We comply with the rules that apply to Small Society Lotteries:

• Tickets are sold at a fixed price of £10 each.
• At least 20% of proceeds must go to the cause — we always exceed that minimum.
• Single prizes are capped at £25,000 — our headline prize is £2,500.
• Players must be aged 16 or over (the legal minimum for a Small Society Lottery in Great Britain).

We’re genuinely proud of our social enterprise model. From every £10 ticket:

• The cause: The legal minimum is at least 20% to the cause — we go over and above that, because that’s how we choose to work.
• The vendor: A small token commission goes to the person who sold you the ticket. That’s the part of our model we’re really proud of: it puts money directly into local hands, builds skills and confidence in our team, and helps people move away from benefits and into meaningful work — which is a quiet but real win for the local community and the Scottish economy.
• Necessary running costs: Things like printing the physical tickets and posting them out to our vendors. Modest, transparent, and unavoidable.
• The prize: The advertised £2,500 prize is set aside before the draw.
• Everything that remains goes to the cause: buying and running wheelchair-adapted vehicles, insurance, training, fuel, and delivering real, free, hands-on services to families living with dementia.

No dividends. No private profit. No one is getting rich here. The CIC asset lock makes this legally enforceable, not just a promise.

Yes — the £2,500 prize is real and the draw is conducted live on YouTube. Before the draw is made, every registered entrant receives a text message containing the link, so you can watch the draw take place in real time. The winner is announced live and contacted afterwards using the phone number and email registered on this page.

You must be 16 or over to buy a Dementia Lottery Scotland ticket and to register your entry. Sixteen is the legal minimum age for entering a Small Society Lottery in Great Britain — this is different from commercial gambling and the National Lottery, which are restricted to 18+. If we identify an entry made by someone under 16, we will refund the ticket and direct the funds to the cause; the entry will not stand.

Our vendors sell physical paper tickets at private venues across Scotland — pubs, clubs, hospitality venues and approved events — and only ever with the express permission of the proprietor. We do not sell on the public street. To enter you into the live YouTube draw — and to text you the link beforehand — we need your contact details and the unique ticket number printed on the slip you were given.

That’s all this page does. We do not sell tickets online. This form only registers entries from people who already hold a paper ticket purchased from one of our authorised vendors.

No. Tickets are sold in person only, by our authorised vendors. This is by design — it keeps us close to the community we serve, gives our vendors meaningful paid work, and avoids the cost and complexity of operating online gambling infrastructure that we don’t need.

Our vendors are adult members of our face-to-face fundraising team, working under a written services agreement with Dementia Drive CIC. They carry identification and only ever sell on private property with the express permission of the proprietor — for example pubs, clubs, hospitality venues and approved events. We do not sell on the public street, and tickets are not sold by children.

Every paper ticket has a unique reference number that matches what you enter on this page. If the number on your ticket is missing, illegible or doesn’t validate, contact us and we will resolve it before the next draw.

First, double-check you’ve typed it exactly as printed on the ticket, with no spaces. If it still won’t validate, message us using the contact details above with a clear photo of your ticket and the name (or rough description) of the vendor who sold it to you. We will register your entry manually before the next draw.

No. We text you the YouTube link before the draw and contact you if you’ve won — that’s the core purpose of your contact details. The opt-in box on this form is separate and optional, and only consents to occasional community updates from Dementia Lottery Scotland. You can reply STOP to any text at any time, and unsubscribe from any email with one click.

We use the details you provide solely to:

• Enter you into the draw against your ticket number,
• Text you the link to watch the live draw,
• Contact you if you win.

We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with third parties for marketing. We’re registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and operate under UK GDPR. Our full Privacy Policy is linked at the bottom of this page.

Yes, where appropriate. We will refund a ticket up until the draw closes if there is a legitimate reason — for example, the ticket was bought in error, sold to someone under 16, the ticket number is illegible or duplicated, or there is an operational issue with the draw. Once the draw has been made, the result is final.

The advertised prize is set aside before the draw is announced as final. We manage prize commitments responsibly against ticket sales and reserves. If a draw ever needed to be rescheduled for genuine operational reasons, every entrant would be notified by text and email and given the choice of either being re-entered into the next draw or a full refund.

Dementia Drive is a community-led movement providing free wheelchair-adapted transport for people living with dementia, alongside practical support for their families. Funds raised through the lottery (and through our other social enterprise activity, including our Forget-Me-Not badges and keyrings) pay for vehicles, insurance, fuel, training, and the people who deliver the service.

Everything we deliver to families is free at the point of use. That isn’t marketing — it is a permanent, entrenched principle in our Charter, and no future board can vote to change it.

Yes. Dementia Drive CIC is a registered Community Interest Company in Scotland (company number SC861664). You can verify us directly on the Companies House register at find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Our annual accounts and our CIC Community Interest Report are filed publicly there.

We’re built on transparency. Our annual CIC accounts and Community Interest Report are filed publicly at Companies House and anyone can read them. We also publish updates on vehicles purchased, services launched and areas reached on dementiadrive.org and through @dementiadrive on social channels. If a number you’ve heard us quote isn’t backed up, ask us — we’ll show you.

There is no leadership compensation. The people running Dementia Drive CIC and Dementia Lottery Scotland do not draw a wage, fee or salary from the organisation. There are no dividends and no private enrichment — the CIC asset lock makes this legally enforceable, and our Permanent Charter entrenches it as a moral commitment on top of the law. The only people paid out of ticket sales are our vendors, who receive a commission per sale (an honest, properly accounted social-enterprise wage that puts money back into the local community). Every other penny, after the prize and unavoidable running costs, goes to the cause.

Please email us using the contact details above and we’ll come back to you the same working day where possible. Under our Small Society Lottery licence we are accountable to the Scottish licensing local authority that issued the licence, and disputes about the conduct of the lottery itself can be referred to an approved Alternative Dispute Resolution provider such as the Independent Betting Adjudication Service (IBAS) if they cannot be resolved with us directly.

Yes. That is the entire reason Dementia Drive exists. We were started by people who had themselves cared for a family member living with dementia and who saw firsthand how slow institutional help can be. We are deliberately built to move quickly.

If you, or someone you know, needs accessible transport because of dementia, contact Dementia Drive directly — the service is free, and it will permanently remain so.