200 Plus Club

What

The 200 Plus Club is a prize draw. There are prizes allocated at each monthly meeting of £5 and £10. There are additional prizes of £25 in February, May, August and December, and £50 in March, June and October.
If more tickets are sold than expected, further additional prizes will be proposed by the Treasurer for agreement by the Community Councillors. This year, ticket sales of 248 meant that we are able to offer 8 additional £15 prizes.
The promoter is Raymond Cowan, our Treasurer, and the draw is registered with Aberdeenshire Council (South Division).

Why

Apart from an administration grant from Aberdeenshire Council, this is our only means of us funding worthy causes in our area. We are a not-for-profit organisation so, aside from subsistence, all funds are distributed to worthy applicants.
If you are local to our area (see here for map) and think we could help you, email our Treasurer to apply.

When

Tickets are sold annually, usually from our November meeting onwards, with the aim of getting all tickets sold in time to enable the first prizes of the year to be drawn at our January meeting.
Prizes are usually drawn at each meeting. If for any reason prizes are not drawn at a given meeting, they are drawn at the next available meeting, in addition to all draws due at that meeting.

Where

Tickets can be bought from all Community Councillors at Maryculter Community Hall at meetings between the dates above (provided they haven't sold out). Details of winners are announced at the meetings, in the minutes and below.

How

Winners are decided for each prize in turn by drawing numbers corresponding to the ticket numbers, at each meeting. The ticket number is announced and the corresponding winner's name read out from the master list. The winners will then receive a cheque for the prize amount by post, in the next few weeks after the draw. Only one prize can be won by any given ticket within a given set of monthly draws, but all winning tickets are resubmitted into the hat for subsequent draws.

Who

Any consenting adult is eligible to buy a ticket. Tickets can be bought from Community Councillors on the list. We are also very thankful for the help we receive from key members of the public selling tickets (you know who you are), as it's a not-insignificant effort to cover our area. As we sell tickets door-to-door, we ask that if you are offered tickets from someone you don't know (as with all cold-callers) you not be afraid to ask for identification if you are unsure. If you're not happy: PLEASE SAY NO, as no appointed representative of ours will be offended or persistent. Happily, crime is low in our area and without complacency we'll keep it that way.

Winners!