National Bingo Game: Breakthrough Bingo
The National Bingo Game in collaboration with Breakthrough Breast Cancer launched a new scratch card game called ‘Breakthrough Bingo’. The scratch cards, launched on 5th October 2009, are can be purchased over the following three months. The cards are available at all high street bingo halls that participate in the National Bingo Game.
Each scratch card has five numbers on it. If you match any of the first five numbers called in the corresponding National Bingo game then you win a prize. Each card costs £1 and 11.5p of the cost goes to Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
The cash prizes vary depending on the numbers matched. Match one and win £2, match two and win £5, match three and win a mystery cash prize and match four or five and win £1,000. The organizers are hoping to have a special draw for Christmas whereby Breakthrough Bingo players have the opportunity to win a car.
The new game was launched as part of the ‘Bingo for Breakthrough’ campaign, an annual fundraising event supported by the Bingo Association. In 2009, the campaign took place from 18th – 25th October, as part of the National Breast Cancer Awareness month. Through the Bingo Association, bingo clubs are encouraged to hold events in order to raise awareness and funds.
The majority of bingo game players and staff are women and breast cancer affects 1 in 9 women in the UK. Since its beginning in 2003, Bingo for Breakthrough has raised over £3 million.