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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Andy Welch

Too good to be true? What it is really like to win a £3m dream home

Kevin and Dee outside their new £3m house.
‘Seeing my children living in a house like that – I can’t put that into words’ … Kevin and Dee outside their new £3m house. Photograph: Mark Field Photography/Omaze

If someone approached you on the street and told you that, for just a tenner, you could win the kind of house that would cause Kevin McCloud to collapse into a puddle of adjectives and help raise millions of pounds for charity, you would probably ask what the catch was. But that improbable offering is Omaze’s core business.

Since launching in the UK in April 2020, the organisation has been running prize draws in which, for a relatively small amount of money, you can be in with the chance to win a multimillion-pound dream house. When the draw ends, a chosen charity partner gets the lion’s share of the profits.

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