Raffles Helena

Raffles Helena is a lottery and raffle website run by St Helena Hospice Limited, a UK charity incorporated in 1980 and based in Colchester. The site states it offers raffles and prize draws under a UK gambling licence, with proceeds supporting the hospice's charitable work. As with any society lottery, winnings fund a good cause rather than a commercial operator.

The domain rafflesthelena.org.uk was registered in July 2025, making it a relatively new online presence for the charity. While St Helena Hospice Limited has held its UKGC society lottery licence since November 2017, the current website is less than a year old, so it doesn't yet have the track record of more established gambling sites. The hospice also runs a sibling site at sthelena.org.uk under the same licence.

On the technical side, the domain currently lacks SSL encryption and several standard email security configurations. That's a gap worth noting for a site that handles online transactions, though it doesn't affect the operator's regulatory standing with the UKGC.

The operator St Helena Hospice Limited holds a Society Lottery licence granted by the UK Gambling Commission on 22 November 2017. A society lottery licence permits a non-commercial society (such as a charity or community group) to run lotteries and prize draws to raise funds for their cause. This is distinct from a commercial remote casino or betting licence.

St Helena Hospice Limited has no recorded regulatory actions with the UK Gambling Commission. The operator's enforcement score reflects a clean history since first licensing in 2017.

St Helena Hospice Limited is a registered charity incorporated on 11 August 1980 under company number 01511841. It's based at St Helena Hospice, Barncroft Close, Colchester CO4 9JU. The organisation has held an active UKGC gambling licence for over eight years, operating as a society lottery to raise funds for its hospice services. Its company status at Companies House is active.