National Lottery millionaires get hands-on to help
With nearly £50M in the bank, these National Lottery millionaires usually get someone else to do the decorating. However, they were all happy to brush up on their DIY skills to support a charity helping homeless young people.
The winners, worth nearly £50 million, donned painting overalls to help transform flats at Barnardo's Rachel House in Bury, which supports homeless young people to lead independent lives.
Barnardo's Rachel House Trust in Bury helps homeless young people to lead independent lives. It has received more than £150,000 of National Lottery funding to build an extension, but it was in need of a facelift. Enter our millionaires, who came to spend the day brightening up the walls, adding new fittings and fixing lampshades.
Handy helpers included one of the lottery's biggest millionaires, Brian Caswell from Bolton, who won a whopping £24.9 million on the EuroMillions draw in June 2009. He was joined by the region's latest lottery winners, Sean and Mel Lloyd from Ashton-Under-Lyne, who won £1.8 million in February; Nigel and Sharon Mather, from Sale (£12.3 million in June 2010); Dean and Stella Hardman, from Heywood (£6.7 million in November 2006); and Ben Woods from the Wirral (£2.3 million in February 2004).
It is easy to give money away when you have won the lottery, but I think it is really important to give time too.
Sean Lloyd said: "This service offers so much to the local community and is a real lifeline for so many young people. It is easy to give money away when you have won the lottery, but I think it is really important to give time too – winning the lottery gives you these options and the time to do things you may previously have wanted to do but were unable because of work commitments.
"I am really pleased to have been able to give my time in this way and bring happiness and a smile to so many faces."
Rachel House service manager Chantal Foy said, "We are extremely grateful to all of the lottery winners for supporting us in this way and giving their time. The flats look so much better with a lick of paint and the young people have even been able to choose their own colour schemes. They certainly look far more homely and I know all of the young people are absolutely delighted."
The National Lottery has been changing the lives of winners and supporting good causes across the UK since 1994. In that time, there have been more than 7,000 new millionaires created and by playing The National Lottery you raise over £4 million for Good Causes every dayΔ.
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