Couple raffle their £255k home and car for just £2 per ticket

Gemma and Anthony Reid, orignally from Wigan, are raffling their £255,000 three bedroom family home and VW Polo car for just £2 per ticket as they bid to fulfil an ambition to migrate to Australia.

The couple have owned the house since 2009, and after Anthony’s mum Winnifred died of lung cancer in 2018, her wishes were for the pair to go and live their lifelong dream in Australia.

So they are currently in the process of moving to Australa and have renovated the house which they put on the market in March, a week before the Covid-19 outbreak and this caused a struggle to sell the house.

In an attempt to sell the house, they have decided to give someone the opportunity to win the home and car in a raffle.

They are using a platform called Raffall who sell the tickets and generate a winner for them. All Gemma, 37, and Anthony, 38, have to do is advertise the raffle.

In total, the couple, who have a son Max, 4, need to sell 200,000 tickets and went live on Monday, September 7, and have currently sold 17,865 tickets. The pair have a Facebook and Instragram page @oakhouseraffle with more than 3,000 followers.

And they can count on celebrity support, with David Potts, from Ibiza Weekender and footballers Angel Gomes and Ravel Morrison, backing them. Gemma and Anthony’s house is located in the M7 bracket of Salford and Gemma said they are doing everything to sell the tickets.

Gemma, who lived in Wigan for a number of years where she went to Abraham Guest High School and lived n Pemberton on Ormskirk Road, said: “The winner will be generated from Raffall and we will announce on a live feed from Facebook.

“If we fail to sell the 200,000 tickets by January 30, the winner will win 75 per cent of the ticket sales and we get nothing than keep the house and will be massively out of pocket with advertising costs, so we are not giving up and will do everything we can to sell those tickets. “

She added: “We are in the process of migrating to Australia so it would be great to give someone else a new start with a fantastic home, and being from Wigan, it would be amazing if someone from the town got it.”

People can scan a QR code with their phone which wll take them straight to the Raffall site to buy tickets or they can purchase them from raffall.com/oakhouseraffle.