Julie Hopwood won £125,000 in the Postcode Lottery’s postcode lottery winning streets results after GU23 7AJ in Send took the weekly Millionaire Street prize on Saturday 1 August. She said she and Shaun will sit down and work out how to use the money.
Julie Hopwood in Send
The 65-year-old grandmother-of-two from Surrey was handed a cheque for £125K this week while holding her new grandchild. Hopwood described the win as a “week from heaven” and said: “I got a phone call when I was at my daughter’s house on her due date to pick up my other grandson. But I didn’t believe it. I put the phone down and said to my daughter, ‘did that really happen?’”
She also said: “Having a grandson and then winning £125,000 is just fantastic, amazing…a dream come true. I’m never going to forget this week.”
Millionaire Street prize
Julie Hopwood and five other neighbours in Send shared £1m after GU23 7AJ landed the lottery’s weekly Millionaire Street prize. Every ticket in the Send prize was worth £125,000, and one player tripled her prize by playing with three. The setup is straightforward: players choose a postcode and are automatically entered into all draws, with guaranteed winners every day.
The Postcode Lottery costs £12.50 a month to play, which is what gives each entrant repeated chances across the week rather than a single draw. For someone holding a winning postcode, the payout lands in the same seven-day cycle that produced the wider results.
Greater Manchester postcodes
Seven Greater Manchester postcodes each scooped £1,000 over the last seven days: WN4 9RE, SK8 3AY, M23 2TU, M22 5DB, WA9 5QB, M40 9BZ and M33 7BN. That leaves the visible results short of the full list promised in the headline, because only one winning postcode in Send and those seven Greater Manchester postcodes are named.
Julie Hopwood said: “I’ve gone from having no grandchildren to having three in a short space of time. I’d like to put a little bit aside for when the grandchildren are older and maybe help their parents out. We’ll have to sit down and work it out.”
For readers checking whether their postcode was among the week’s winners, the named results stop there. The published details point to one £125,000 Send payout and seven £1,000 postcode wins, but they do not set out the complete street-by-street list from July 26 to August 1.
