Notts County Lifeline
What is Notts County Lifeline you may ask? Well, nottscountyfc.co.uk is here to tell you a little more about the Lifeline scheme, and how you can sign up online.
What Is Lifeline?
Lifeline provides a reliable stream of profit for the club and also provides a good chance of winning a cash prize. There are currently 1,500 members paying £2 each week, for this you can win:
* £1,000 Each Week
* One of three £100 prizes Each Week
* One of three £50 prizes Each Week
There are also annual prizes of £10,000, a car and a holiday.
So give yourself a chance of winning some great prizes and help the club in the process. You can even pay by direct debit there by ensuring that your number is in every draw.
Also, don't forget that once you are in Lifeline you can take part in the Lifeline 50/50 draw where a further 50p per week gives you the chance to win a cash prize of half the money raised in this manner.
You can join Lifeline in the club shop. Remember £2 per week you get the chance to win £1,000 every week and further big prizes on an annual basis.
Lifeline History
Monday September 15 1986 was one of the most significant occasions in the long history of Notts County. This was the night 1,500 supporters packed into the Astoria Ballroom with hundreds locked outside as they gathered to hear of the financial crisis that threatened the future of the club.
The club had been struggling financially for a long time and it was only the financial support of Chairman Jack Dunnett that enabled Notts County to continue. At the time of the meeting the debt had reached £1.8 million which would not have been dissimilar to the figure involved when the club went into administration in 2003.
Just as there was tremendous enthusiasm shown by Notts County fans during the 2003 crisis, so it was then. The players were all on the platform, led by Captain Steve Simms, pledging their support and listened to the speeches from amongst others Tommy Lawton, Don Masson and Jimmy Sirrel.
To rousing cheers Jimmy said: "With the passion you are showing tonight there is no chance the club will die."
John Mounteney, the former Notts County Vice-Chairman said on the night: "We are staggered to find so many people turning out for Notts County. The club belongs to you. We as Directors are just stewards of an institution that has been running 120 and it is our duty to preserve it for the generations of supporters to come."
And now all these years later the supporters, through the Supporters Trust, together with the Blenheim Consortium, take up the same challenge. And so Lifeline was launched with John Mounteney as Chairman backed by the tremendous enthusiasm from Neil Hook and Les Bradd who together soon had a membership approaching the maximum 2,500.
Since that fateful evening Lifeline has been a life to the club raising in the excess of £1 million for the club and providing a social and sporting organisation for all its members.
What has not been revealed before is that the launch of Lifeline had even more far reaching consequences for the club.
Since Jack Dunnett had told Mounteney of his intention to retire, Mounteney had been actively courting potential owners for the club, a task no easier then than in the past few years. At that time he was one of the people Mounteney was working on and he sent along to the meeting as an observer a friend of his, Frank Allock, later to join the Board. When he reported back to Derek Pavis the tremendous support for the club it helped persuade him to purchase the club.
With the problems facing the club since administration membership of Lifeline has dropped and is now around the 1,500 mark. Now is the time for all supporters to consider joining and helping to ensure the future of our club.
Join
If you wish to join Lifeline, and help Notts County, with a good chance of winning yourself some money, membership forms can be found in the Club Shop or at the Main Reception.
Members can pay in a number of different ways, such as Credit or Direct Debit cards, Cash or by Cheque. Members can also pay either weekly, monthly or annually.
Winning Numbers
If you are a member of Notts County Lifeline and wish to find out if you are a winner, there are a number of different ways to find out if you are a lucky winner.
- Numbers are posted here on nottscountyfc.co.uk on a Monday morning under News on the site homepage and also in the Lifeline Section of the website.
- Numbers are printed in the Nottingham Evening Post on a Tuesday under "Legal Notices"
- Numbers are printed in the Magpies Matchday Magazine on a matchday
- Numbers are available to view in the Notts County Club Shop throughout the week from the Lifeline Desk
Contact
For further information on Notts County Lifeline, you can contact Lynn Lawson on 0115 9557200/205 during the week (except Monday's) or you can pop into the Club Shop to find out more.
You can also contact Lynn by e-mail at: lynnlawson@nottscountyfc.co.uk.
