Boxing Day 2026 draw rules

Rules version: 9 November 2026. This free draw offers up to £600 in cash prizes across separate customer and provider pools. Customer eligibility includes every valid HU postcode. Read these rules together with the campaign privacy notice below. The entry period is 1–24 December 2026.

Rules for entrants

1 Promoter and contact

The promoter is GOT A MATE LTD, company number 17483761, correspondence address 7 Owston Park, Hull, England, HU6 8QN. Contact marketing@got-a-mate.com about the draw and enquiries@got-a-mate.com about privacy rights.

2 Entry period and key dates

All times are GMT, which is UK local time on these dates.

• Entries open: 1 December 2026 at 00:00.
• Entries close: 24 December 2026 at 23:59.
• Random draw and initial winner emails: 26 December 2026.
• Initial claim deadline: 2 January 2027 at 23:59.
• Payment deadline for accepted prizes: 23 January 2027.

Entries must be received during the entry period. Entering early or late does not create a valid entry.

3 Who can enter

You must be 18 or over when entering. Choose one of these pools:

• Customer pool: your main residential address must have a valid UK postcode in the HU postcode area when you enter. Every HU postcode is included. A business address, PO Box or temporary visiting address does not establish customer residence. We may check your full residential address if your entry is selected.
• Provider pool: you must be authorised to enter for a genuine UK service business that serves at least one of Hull, Cottingham, Beverley, Hessle, Willerby or Anlaby. Give the business or trading name, type of business, services and coverage. An employee must have the business’s permission. A provider prize belongs to the business or named sole trader, not personally to an employee entering on its behalf.

Existing and new eligible users can enter on the same terms. A GOT A MATE account is not required. Each person may enter once in one pool only, and each provider business may have one entry only. Someone eligible for both pools must choose one. Several representatives cannot enter the same business separately.

GOT A MATE directors, employees, people involved in administering the draw and members of their households cannot enter. Fabricated businesses, automated bulk submissions, entries using another person’s identity without authority, and staff or test entries are excluded. Ordinary assistance with an accessible form is allowed.

4 How to enter

Complete the free form at Boxing Day entry page during the entry period. Provide your name, email, chosen pool, town and postcode, plus the business information requested for a provider entry. Confirm that you meet the eligibility requirements and accept these rules.

No purchase or payment is required. You do not need a paid membership, booking, completed job, referral, review, social follow, like, share, tag or marketing subscription. Taking part in any separate seasonal challenge is optional. There is no paid route and no way to buy extra chances. Your usual internet or email costs may apply.

Social comments, messages and shares do not count as entries. Submitting the form does not create a marketplace account or subscribe you to advertising. Any later customer or provider registration is separate and does not improve your chances.

The form confirmation gives your entry reference and chosen pool. Keep it. If you submit duplicates, only your first valid entry counts. You may ask marketing@got-a-mate.com to correct your details or chosen pool before closing; the correction replaces the original information and does not add another entry. Check that your email address is correct. Report a form error before the deadline so we can investigate; sending a complaint alone is not an entry.

5 Prizes

• Provider pool — £400 total: £250, £100 and £50.
• Customer pool — £200 total: £100, £50, £25 and £25.

There are seven prize allocations worth up to £600. There may be fewer than seven different winners under section 6. An empty pool remains unawarded, and unclaimed prizes are handled under section 8. The separate advertising and referral budgets are not draw prizes.

Prizes are in pounds sterling. There is no fee to claim. Prize amounts will not be reduced because entry numbers are low. Provider winners are responsible for any tax or accounting treatment that applies to their business prize. A prize does not guarantee work, marketplace approval, bookings or service availability.

6 How the draw works

We check entries and remove duplicates before drawing. Each pool is drawn separately on 26 December 2026, using a computer process with verifiably random results or with independent supervision. We retain the entry list, reasons for exclusions and evidence of the selection.

Prizes are allocated from highest to lowest value:

1. Enough entrants: if there are at least three eligible providers or four eligible customers in the relevant pool, select different entrants at random without replacement. Each selected entrant receives one prize.
2. Fewer entrants than prizes: first put all eligible entrants in that pool in a random order and allocate one prize to each, starting with the largest. For every remaining prize, draw again from all eligible entrants in that pool, giving each an equal chance. Repeat wins are allowed only when needed to allocate the pool’s prizes.
3. No eligible entrants: award none of that pool’s prizes. Its money does not move to the other pool. If both pools are empty, no prizes are awarded.

For example, with two eligible providers, one receives £250 and the other £100 in random order. Both then have an equal chance of the £50 prize. With one eligible customer, that person receives all four customer prizes, totalling £200, provided they meet the claim requirements.

7 Winner emails and initial claims

We email initially selected entrants on 26 December 2026 from marketing@got-a-mate.com. A selection is provisional until eligibility and acceptance are confirmed. We do not announce someone publicly as a winner before that confirmation.

To claim, reply by 2 January 2027 at 23:59 GMT, accept the prize and provide the reasonable eligibility and payment information specified in the email through the private route it explains. We may check age, residence, business activity, service area or authority to represent a business. We ask only for what is needed and allow unrelated information to be redacted.

Check your Inbox and Spam folders. We send a reminder before the applicable deadline if no reply has arrived. We never require a fee, card number, card security code, password or banking login to release a prize. You can independently contact the campaign email to check a message.

8 Declined or unclaimed prizes

A prize becomes available for a replacement selection if the selected entrant is ineligible, declines, or misses the stated claim requirements. The first reserve offers are emailed on 3 January 2027, with claims due by 10 January 2027 at 23:59 GMT. Any final reserve offers are emailed on 11 January 2027, with claims due by 18 January 2027 at 23:59 GMT.

We record a random reserve order for each pool. Replacements are taken from eligible entrants who have not already received an award. If too few distinct eligible entrants remain to allocate that pool’s prizes, the repeat-win rule in section 6 applies to the remaining prizes: existing accepted awards stay in place, and remaining eligible entrants have an equal chance of each additional prize. People disqualified from the draw or who have declined or missed a claim deadline are excluded from replacement selection.

After the final reserve deadline, a prize with no eligible, timely accepted claim remains unawarded. It is not transferred to the other pool. We record the outcome. A delay caused by us in providing claim instructions or processing information will not be used to forfeit an otherwise valid claim.

9 Payment

Prizes are paid by GBP bank transfer to an account held by the confirmed customer winner, provider business or named sole trader, as appropriate. We pay all accepted prizes by 23 January 2027. If a winner cannot receive a bank transfer, they should contact us promptly so that a suitable alternative can be agreed without a fee or reduction in prize value.

Only confirmed winners are asked for the minimum payment details. Use the private claim route in the winner email; do not put payment details in a social comment or the entry form. We confirm payment directly to the winner.

10 Winner information and publicity

From 24 January to 24 April 2027, you may request evidence of valid prize awards by emailing marketing@got-a-mate.com. This will normally include a winner’s surname and county, or a provider business’s name and county, together with the prize.

Tell us when entering or during the claim process if you object to that disclosure or want less information shared. We will consider the request and provide suitably reduced information or other evidence where appropriate. Relevant information may still need to be supplied to the Advertising Standards Authority if an award is challenged. A photo, interview or testimonial is optional, requires separate agreement and is not a condition of payment.

11 Personal information

GOT A MATE LTD controls the personal information used for this draw. We use entry details to check eligibility, administer the selection and contact entrants. Winner details are also used to verify claims, pay prizes and demonstrate that awards were valid. See the campaign privacy arrangements below and the GOT A MATE Privacy and Cookies Notice for contact details and rights.

Marketing updates use a separate, optional, unticked choice. Refusing or withdrawing that choice does not affect your entry, chance of winning or prize. Draw administration emails contain the information needed to run the promotion; entering alone does not permit advertising messages.

12 Social platforms

This promotion is organised by GOT A MATE LTD. It is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook, Instagram or TikTok. Entrants provide their draw information to GOT A MATE LTD. To the extent permitted by law, entrants release those platforms from claims arising from this promotion. This does not remove rights or liabilities that cannot lawfully be excluded.

13 Fair administration and complaints

We apply the published rules consistently. Any exclusion must be based on these rules and recorded. We may request proportionate evidence of eligibility or suspected misuse. An existing marketplace account or payment to GOT A MATE does not give priority in the draw.

We will not extend the closing date because too few people enter. A change will be made only where necessary because of circumstances beyond our reasonable control or a legal requirement, with fair treatment of existing entrants and a clear explanation on the entry page. We will preserve the advertised prize commitments wherever reasonably possible.

Send draw questions or complaints to marketing@got-a-mate.com, quoting your entry reference if available. Our administrative decision does not remove your right to complain to a regulator or use the courts. These rules are governed by the law of England and Wales, without limiting any mandatory consumer rights or court rights available where you live. Nothing excludes liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Campaign privacy notice

This notice applies to the GOT A MATE Boxing Day 2026 free draw. GOT A MATE LTD is the controller. It supplements the GOT A MATE Privacy and Cookies Notice, which gives our contact details, provider arrangements and privacy rights. Entering the draw does not create a marketplace account.

Information and purpose. We collect your name, email, chosen prize pool, town, full postcode, age and eligibility confirmations, acceptance of the rules and, for provider entries, the business or trading name, business type and service areas. We record the entry time, reference, rules and privacy versions, and your separate marketing choice. We use these details to administer the draw, check eligibility, contact entrants and handle questions or complaints. Further eligibility evidence is requested only where necessary; bank details are requested only from selected winners through the private claim process.

The form uses short-lived technical identifiers and attempt counts to help prevent spam, and checks format and duplicate email addresses. An authorised person reviews eligibility and claims before an award is confirmed. The form shows an entry reference after saving; it does not send an entry-confirmation email. Save your reference.

Lawful bases. We use contract where processing is necessary to run the draw for an individual entrant. For business representatives, preventing abuse, defending claims and demonstrating fair awards, we use legitimate interests in administering a fair draw and protecting entrants and the business, subject to necessity and the impact on individuals. We use legal obligation for records required by applicable law. Optional marketing and optional publicity rely on separate consent. Accepting the draw rules is not consent to other uses; refusing or withdrawing marketing consent does not affect entry or winning chances.

Access and sharing. Entry records are held privately in our WordPress website database on GoDaddy hosting. Authorised administrators can access records and download private exports for draw administration. Hosting, backup, security, email and banking providers receive the information needed for their functions; an independent draw supervisor, professional adviser or regulator may receive relevant information where necessary and lawful. We do not sell entrant lists or upload them to social advertising audiences. Public winner information is limited by section 10.

Our existing notice identifies GoDaddy hosting in a Europe data-centre region. Some hosting, email, backup or support processing may take place outside the UK. See the international-processing section of the Privacy and Cookies Notice for the current provider arrangements and how to ask for information about relevant safeguards.

Retention. We will delete or irreversibly anonymise ordinary entrant contact details and routine eligibility evidence by 23 July 2027, except the minimum needed for an unresolved complaint, legal claim or other documented lawful requirement. We retain the minimum draw audit and winner payment records for six years after payment, then delete them unless a continuing legal need is documented. Separate bank-detail collection records will be deleted within 90 days of payment when no longer needed; only the necessary payment receipt is retained. Marketing records follow their separate consent and unsubscribe process.

This timetable applies to the entry records and working exports used to administer the draw. Backups are restricted recovery copies handled under the arrangements in our general privacy notice. Any applicable deletion restrictions must be reapplied if a backup is restored.

Your rights. Contact enquiries@got-a-mate.com to ask about access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability or objection, where the relevant right applies. You may withdraw marketing consent at any time without affecting the draw. You may complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Information necessary to establish an entry or pay a prize must be provided for that purpose.