A local resident is raffling off her house worth £1million to raise funds for a charity that delivers clean water to rural communities in Uganda.
Yarah David is raffling her seven-bedroom townhouse on Nunney Road, which will come mortgage-free, with stamp duty and all conveyancing fees covered.
The detached house, newly renovated last year, features seven bedrooms, four bathrooms and a one-bedroom self-contained annex. It is being raffled via the online platform Raffall, with 10% of the proceeds going to the charity, which Yarah hopes to raise significant funds for.
“A couple of months ago, a friend of mine told me she had run a successful raffle on an online platform to raise money for charity,” explained Yarah who is an interior designer. “Around the same time, I had become aware of the advertisements online for one of the house raffles run by another provider, where people can win a home while supporting a charity. That is when I thought, I own a very valuable house that is currently for sale. It is a large property and can only be bought by someone with significant funds, which rules out a lot of people who would love the chance to live here. What if I raffled it instead?”
Tickets for the raffle cost £5, which includes a 10% donation to the charity, which helps bring clean water and sanitation to rural communities in Uganda, where access to safe water is a daily struggle.
“I have always believed that when you are in a position to help others, you should do it,” says Yarah. “I have had my fair share of challenges, but I consider myself unbelievably fortunate to have a large, loving family (quite a few of them in Frome!) and friends who are unconditionally supportive.
“I live in a beautiful house in a country where running water and sanitation is an expected basic. My aunt, Francis David, became involved with The Busoga Trust when my sister Juliet went out to Uganda with her to take pictures of new wells being dug. It is hard to imagine that so many people, especially women and children, have to spend hours every day fetching water, often from unsafe sources. This really struck a chord with me. The Busoga Trust is a tiny charity who over 40 years have achieved an incredible amount and crucially have an untarnished reputation for good in Uganda.”
You can enter the raffle by searching “Frome Townhouse Raffall” on Google. Tickets cost just £5.
Yarah added, “I have also generated a unique PROMO code: FROME2 that can be used by Frome Times readers to give them two bonus entries with every paid entry.”
The raffle ends on Saturday 7th December or when the last ticket is sold (whichever comes sooner). A minimum of 300,000 tickets need to be sold for the house to be given. If less than 300,000 tickets are sold, the winner will instead receive a cash payment amounting to 50% of the total ticket revenue generated from the raffle.
