A fortunate winner who purchased a £1,000,000 lottery ticket in Wiltshire final December has missed out on their winnings after the 180-day interval to assert handed.
The Nationwide Lottery introduced immediately that the large prize from the EuroMillions UK Millionaire Maker draw on December 27, 2024, has now handed over to the Nationwide Lottery Good Causes.
The deadline for the winner to assert their prize was midnight, June 25, however they didn’t come ahead.
Senior Winners’ Advisor Andy Carter stated: ‘I can affirm that the ticket-holder didn’t come ahead to assert their prize and has now sadly missed out on this substantial amount of cash.
‘Nevertheless, the cash will now go to Good Causes and add to the greater than £30M raised every week for Nationwide Lottery-funded tasks – wonderful tasks like Alzheimer’s Help, Wilton Using for the Disabled, Broham Group Hub and Dorothy Home Hospice, all of that are in Wiltshire and have helped make the county a greater place to stay for everybody.’
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The unclaimed jackpot had the ticket code of XDQM36414. Digital tickets are extra typically claimed than paper ones, as a result of they obtain repeated reminders to test their account.
However the unclaimed million will go to nice causes. Final September, Alzheimer’s Help was given £9,000 for ‘Wiltshire ‘Motion for the Thoughts’, which presents actions and social help at six venues throughout the county.
Wilton Using for the Disabled was awarded £7,500 to resurface their outside enviornment to allow folks with disabilities to take pleasure in using in a secure and optimistic manner.
Broham Group Hub was awarded £150,000 in August 2024 to assist rebuild the neighborhood centre after a hearth on the former village corridor.
Dorothy Home Hospice was awarded £20,000 in June 2025 to develop their volunteer companionship companies for terminally ailing sufferers and their carers.
The entire unclaimed lottery wins go to the Nationwide Lottery Good Causes fund, however every week, greater than £30 million from ticket gross sales goes to the fund as effectively.
In line with the Nationwide Lottery web site, six huge prizes are ready to be claimed, 5 of them value £1 million every and one value round £107,000. 4 are with EuroMillions and two with Lotto.
Final week, somebody in County Cork, Eire, claimed the EuroMillions greatest ever win, £208 million.
It marked Eire’s 18th winner of the EuroMillions jackpot and its largest ever win.
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