Win a £3 million home or a £1 million cash prize for £25. One lucky winner could win this newly built home, "Poachers Retreat" in this UK win a house competition.

Situated in the Warwickshire countryside, this impressive Elizabethan style house boasts 15 rooms and 7 acres of land.

This large country residence is located 2 miles away from the old Roman market town of Alcester and less than 8 miles away from the historic town of Stratford upon Avon.

Martin and Maxine Cox, the current owners of the property, are hoping to raise up to £100k for a range of charities including Building Blocks, the Born Free Foundation and the Lord's Taverners.

Accommodation Details

• Entrance Porch, Galleried Reception Hall and Landing;
• Drawing room, Dining room, Sitting Room, Garden room;
• Kitchen/Breakfast room, Utility room;
• Cloakroom & Rear Entrance Hall;
• Master bedroom suite;
• Guest bedroom suite and 4 further bedrooms;
• Family bathroom;
• Ancillary building with 5 rooms plus first floor open plan space;
• Triple garage block with apartment over;
• Formal & informal gardens;
• Driveway, Paddock.

Players must answer a series of questions and play a "Spot the Key" competition to become eligible for the top prize.

Competition Outcome

A cash prize of £12,575.35 was awarded to the winner of the competition, Darren Gordon from Dudley. According to the accounts published on the website, 1,761 tickets were sold and paid for in the competition, raising a total of £44,025.

7 other prizes were awarded to the runner-up winners. These were donated by advertisers sponsoring the competition:

• Roca bathroom suite: Bill and Sue Sutton (Coventry);
• O.B.C. brass bed: Trevor Davies (Harpenden);
• CTD tiles: Warren Ash (Tonbridge);
• Short break in Stratford upon Avon: Trevor Clarke (Geneva, Switzerland);
• HSK shower unit: Lee Walker (West Bromwich);
• Smeg retro fridge: Mike King (Cornwall);
• Louis Fraser door furniture: Brian Shields (Lymington).

Expenses totalled £27,996, broken down as follows:

• printing leaflets and vouchers: £5,229 (19%);
• web hosting, design and maintenance: £4,774 (16%);
• online and offline advertising: £4,173 (15%);
• legal fees: £3,868 (14%);
• marketing and PR: £3,525 (13%);
• telephone: £3,133 (11%);
• office supplies and postage: £1,768 (6%);
• photography and videos: £1,526 (6%);
• In addition, total fees of £2,949 were incurred.

Total charity donations totalled just under £490 (3.75% of net sales), being 4 donations of £122.48 to:

• The Lords Taverners;
• Born Free Foundation;
• Building Blocks, West Midlands Police;
• Chris Tarrant "in recognition of his invaluable help in promoting the competition to allow him to nominate a charity of his choice".

Ticket sales breakdown:

• 73% were paid for by debit/credit card;
• 25% by bank transfers and postal orders; and
• 2% by mobile payments (37 tickets);
• Nearly 600 tickets were ordered but never paid for.

This Win a House competition was hosted at: http://www.wina3millionpoundhome.com/

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"Update 1st December 2010

Since the closure of the competition, we have given fair and reasonable time for all entries to be paid for, and we have contacted as many unpaid entrants as possible. We have had to eliminate entries not paid for, to the total of £14,825.000 as we see no possibility of this being paid.

A clear winner has now been selected, and so have the winners for the runner up prizes.

We are now writing to inform the winners via recorded delivery, the process was independantly [sic] verified by a witness.

We are currently in the process of transferring the credit card payments from the secure account with HSBC, to enable us to present the winning cheque and award the charity donations.

As soon as we have clear contact with all the winners, we will then publish the grid reference with photograph of the location of the keys. We will also publish accounts of competition entries and expenditure.

You will appreciate this process has to be carried out with due diligence, and open to scrutiny, and we should like to thank everyone for their patience.

Kind regards,
The Cox family"

Tricky , 07 Dec 2010

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What went wrong?

Nice house, I'm not sure why this competition didn't sell more tickets... I see lots of money was spent on printing leaflets and making phone calls, but clearly the advertising fell well short! Also I'm a bit confused, why give Chris Tarrant 1/4 of the charity money?

stef , 17 Apr 2011

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