premium bond prizes

NEW

MILLIONAIRE FROM

 LANCASHIRE IN

JULY’S JACKPOT

 DRAW

 

• ·         Still over 1 million tax-free prizes awarded worth a total of over £33 million

 

 

July’s Premium Bond millionaire   A man living in Lancashire      Bond Number: 138WC727458   Winning Bond bought in May 2008   Total holdings: £30,000

 

 

In Lancashire, just over 510,500 people hold Premium Bonds worth over £890 million. There are over 10,300 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes in total worth over £604,550. This is the 11th time that the £1 million jackpot has been won in Lancashire.

 

In March, NS&I announced that from the April prize draw onwards, one of the two monthly £1 million Premium Bond jackpot prizes would be replaced by a wider mix of other prizes in the monthly draws.

 

Similarly, a new £25 Premium Bonds prize has been introduced to the draws alongside the existing prizes (ranging from £50 to £1 million). These changes have been introduced because Premium Bond holders say that maintaining the chances of winning tax-free prizes on a regular basis is particularly important to them.

 

In July’s draw ERNIE paid out over 1.1 million prizes, together amounting to more than £33 million in value. There were 40,569,597,098 eligible Bond numbers in the draw.

Prize and value breakdown in July 2009

Value of prizes	Number of prizes
£1,000,000	1
£ 100,000	2
£ 50,000	4
£25,000	9
£10,000	20
£5,000	41
£1,000	675
£ 500	2,025
£100	19,866
£50	19,866
£25	1,084,424
Total prize fund value £33,808,000	Total number of prizes 1,126,933

 

 

Premium Bond facts

The current Premium Bonds prize fund rate is 1.0% tax-free².  The current odds of each £1 Bond number winning any prize are 36,000 to 1, so with average luck, an investor with £30,000 in Premium Bonds could win 10 tax-free prizes a year. At the end of June 2009, over 23 million people had a total of over £40 billion invested in Premium Bonds.

 

Premium Bonds can be bought online at www.nsandi.com, by telephone on 0500 007 007 (see note 5), by post and over the counter at Post Office® branches, and brochures can be picked up in WHSmith in 400 of its High Street stores and 155 of its travel stores.

 

Like all NS&I products, Premium Bonds offer investors 100% capital security, backed by HM Treasury, as well as the sense of fun that comes from potentially winning tax-free prizes.

 

Since the first Premium Bonds prize draw in 1957, over 191 million tax-free prizes worth over £12 billion have been paid out. Prizes range from £25 to £1 million.

 

There are currently over 599,000 unclaimed Premium Bond prizes, worth over £35 million. There is no time limit for claiming prizes.  Premium Bonds investors can check to see if they have won by visiting www.nsandi.com and using the Premium Bonds prize checker.

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New Theatre Oxford

NEW THEATRE
GEORGE STREET

OXFORD

OX1 2AG

 

BOX OFFICE:  0844 847 1585 (NT) / 0844 844 0662 (OFS)

GROUPS 10+: 0844 372 7272

STAGE DOOR*: 01865 320 760

ONLINE: www.NewTheatreOxford.org.uk / www.OFSstudio.org.uk

 

*The Stage Door can only assist with enquiries related to performance times, lost property, cast, productions and general theatre administration. You cannot purchase tickets via the New Theatre Stage Door.

 

General terms and conditions are printed on the back of each ticket. For your convenience, the main terms of purchasing tickets and attending performances at Live Nation venues are included here: Please note all ticket prices are subject to booking / transaction fees. All dates are correct at the time of going to print, however they are subject to change at late notice without advance warning. The New Theatre and OFS Studio cannot exchange or refund tickets unless the show has been cancelled or postponed. Tickets are not transferable. Unauthorised photography or use of recording equipment is strictly prohibited. Latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance.

 

 

 

Date                 Performance                                                                            Prices

 

New Theatre

 

30^th June

– 4^th July           Horrible Histories: Frightful First World War and

Woeful Second World War                                                      £10.50 – £14.50

 

6^th                     Bryan Adams – special acoustic performance                                     £60

 

14^th                   Jake & Elwood:

The Best Blues Brothers Show in the World… Ever!                      £21.50

 

16^th – 19^th          Scooby-Doo and the Pirate Ghost Adventure Live!                         £10 – £19.50

 

 

OFS Studio

 

30^th June

- 4^th July            A Fistful of Mondays                                                                  £12

 

6^th – 11^th            Footloose Sands Theatre Arts School                                                        £9

 

14^th                   Best Man Speech                                                                      £8

TRANSFORMED EATING HABITS AT THE CHILDREN’S FOOD FESTIVAL

 

 

Glorious sunshine, a stunning location and the promise of a huge variety of gastronomic treats brought over 14,000 families flocking to the 2009 Children’s Food Festival on June 27 and 28.

 

The 2009 Children’s Food Festival, held this year at the Northmoor Trust estate and farm in an area of outstanding beauty, was a resounding success with parents, who were delighted to see their young ones eager to try out new foods and recipes.

 

Possibly the most popular attraction was The Chocolate Tent – where leading chocolatiers dazzled audiences with their artistry and distributed all flavours of chocolate with extraordinary generosity.  

 

More than 20 top chefs and cookery writers – including Patrons Raymond Blanc and Sophie Grigson – gave talks and hands-on demos. TV’s Stefan Gates even got children eating fried grasshoppers.

 

Amongst the other original offerings were: The Vegetable Orchestra, the Pizza Midwife, the Eat a Rainbow Every Day drama and a chance for children to be filmed by the BBC as pretend celebrity chefs.  

 

Film actress Greta Scacchi, BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme’s Sheila Dillon and teenagers took part in a lively debate about whether celebrities should promote junk food.

 

Festival Director Eka Morgan said, “We have been overwhelmed with highly positive feedback from happy parents. Our hope was that whichever way you looked in the Festival fields there would be something compelling to do – and that really was how it turned out.”

 

Zita from Oxford was one of the many who have already expressed their enthusiasm to the Northmoor Trust:

 

“The food festival was more than fabulous. Amazing! We all had such fun and my boys took away loads of goodies for their vegetable patch. Thank you beyond words – chocolate heaven as well.”

Bonn Square

Just been to Bonn Square on this lovely summer’s day, it is great to see how
people are enjoying this newly improved social public space. There are tourists
resting their tired feet, others reading books, families meeting before going
off to have a meal, perhaps at one of the marvellous restaurants at Oxford
Castle. At last Oxford has its own pleasant public  space which is away from
the traffic.

Inside Oxford Prospect Magazine