£5,000 could be yours!
25 March 2025
Play today for just £1 and you’ll be in with the chance to win an amazing £5,000 top prize. Plus, there are over 100 other cash prizes to put a spring in your step, including a second prize of £1,000 and a 3rd prize of £500.
When you play our Spring Raffle you’ll be helping Derek, Coeliac UK’s Social Media Officer, who was diagnosed with coeliac disease in 2016, to make sure that your charity can be the leading, trusted voice on social media.
Derek Roberts, Coeliac UK Social Media Officer
“As well as a chance to win thousands of pounds, your support also means that throughout Coeliac Awareness Month, we’ll be there on social media as a ‘force for good’ helping find the thousands of people in the UK who are unknowingly living with undiagnosed coeliac disease and helping guide them on the road to recovery.”
“Your support also means that you can help us guide them through getting tested for coeliac disease and on the road to recovery. You also help us tackle misinformation, improve health information, and build an online community where people with coeliac disease feel safe, included and supported. It really is a win win!”
“Giving the best, trustworthy information and support is personally so important to me. I was diagnosed in 2016, before I began working at Coeliac UK. Back then I didn’t have a clue about coeliac disease or where to find factual information on social media channels.
I’d been working in the pharmacy retail sector and for a few years before my diagnosis, I felt just continually unwell and really fatigued – like I was 60 years old, when I was 27! I didn’t have any gastro symptoms. My nutritional deficiencies were my main symptoms. I was lacking in calcium, vitamin D and had to take iron tablets often.
My diagnosis was a big shock. It was all new and I’d say I felt a sense of grief for the old me. I needed to live life differently and my family and friends didn’t understand that I couldn’t join in our favourite takeaway or that an ordinary beer contained gluten.
Like many people who are newly diagnosed, and today’s generations who grow up in a digital world, I looked for support and information on social media and online communities. The information Coeliac UK posted on social media and some other advice was helpful, but it was troubling to see so much negativity and conflicting opinions around coeliac disease.
I don’t like misinformation, so as well as researching my new life-long medical condition, I studied for a new digital career. My dream social media job came up here at Coeliac UK and I’ve never looked back.
I’m sure you’ll agree, there’s still more that can be done to make the lives of gluten free people better. So, my hope is that by entering the Coeliac UK Spring Raffle, we can all play a part in continuing to change things for the better – and of course, you get the chance to win £5,000 too! It’s an easy and fun way to support the charity and I hope you’ll all join me in getting involved.”
Don’t miss the Fast Entry Draw and enjoy the chance to win even more prizes. Enter before 22 April and you could win one of 10 M&S Gift Cards.
or call the raffle hotline on 01628 511 708.
Entries cost £1 and the draw will be held on 29 May 2025.