> A £500 cash giveaway in the UK. Free entry, no fee to claim, no tax to pay, winner published and checkable. Plus the checks worth making before you enter. 18+. Source page: https://granddraws.co.uk/500-pound-giveaway No fee to enter or claim # £500 cash giveaway **We are giving away £500 in cash, free to enter.** No ticket, no fee, and nothing to pay at the other end either: the £500 is sent by bank transfer in full. One entry per person, drawn automatically at 9pm on the closing date, with the result published so anyone can check it. Residents of Great Britain aged 18 and over. [Enter the giveaway free](https://granddraws.co.uk/free-draw) Entries run from 30 October and close at 8pm on Monday 30 November 2026, drawn that evening at 9pm. The free draw page shows whether it is still open. ## How to check a cash giveaway is real "Giveaway" is a word worth being careful about, so caution is the correct starting position. These are the checks worth making, and they work on us as well as on anyone else. You are asked to pay something to release the prize A real giveaway never needs a payment to pay you Admin fees, delivery charges, taxes, currency conversion, a "verification" payment. All of it is the same request wearing different clothes. Cash prizes in the UK are not taxed and there is nothing to ship, so there is nothing that could properly need paying. Bank details or ID are wanted before there is a winner Those come after a win, directly, never in a form on the way in Entering should need almost nothing about you. We ask for an email address, because we cannot tell you that you have won without one. Account details only ever come up once you have actually won and we are arranging the transfer. No company name, no rules and no address anywhere A real promoter is identifiable and publishes the terms You should be able to find who is running it and read the rules before entering. If the whole thing lives in one social media post with no link to anything, there is nobody to hold to it. The winner is announced only by direct message A real result is published where everyone can see it The usual version is a direct message from an account impersonating the promoter, asking for a fee. We publish results on the site, and we never ask a winner for money. The prize or the odds change as it goes along The prize is committed and the method is fixed in advance A prize that quietly shrinks, or a deadline that keeps moving to squeeze more entries out, tells you the promoter is making it up as they go. Our prize is committed before the draw runs, and every draw we run goes ahead on its published closing date with the full prize whatever the entry numbers. ## What we ask for, and what we never ask for To enter, an email address, a password and your date of birth, because the draw is for over 18s and the account has to be age-checked. We do not want your address, your phone number or anything about your finances, and there is no card field anywhere in the process. If you win, we contact you on that email address and arrange a bank transfer. At that point we need account details to pay you, which is the only stage they are ever relevant. We will never ask you to pay a fee, confirm a card, buy anything, or send money to release a prize. There is no situation in which that request comes from us. Our paid competitions work differently and it is worth knowing the difference: those have a ticket price, a published ticket cap so you can work out your own odds, and a skill question. They also all carry a [free postal entry route](https://granddraws.co.uk/free-entry) on exactly the same odds as a paid ticket, and every one of them is drawn on its published closing date with the full prize, sold out or not. Paid entry is open to Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland) only. This giveaway has none of that, because there is nothing to buy in the first place, and it is open UK wide. ## Giveaway questions **What can I check about this £500 giveaway before entering?** Everything that decides it, which is the point: the test is whether you can check it rather than whether we say so. The prize is £500 in cash paid by bank transfer, the draw runs automatically at 9pm on the closing date, and the result is published so anyone can recompute the winning entry from public data. We never ask a winner for a payment of any kind. **Do I have to pay anything to enter or to claim?** No, at either end. Entry is free and there is no fee, charge or deduction to claim. If anybody ever contacts you claiming to be us and asking for a payment to release a prize, it is not us. **Is a cash prize taxable in the UK?** No. Prize winnings from a draw or competition are not treated as income in the UK, so the £500 arrives whole. There is no fee, charge or deduction of any kind to claim it, and we never ask a winner for a payment. **How many people will I be up against?** We cannot tell you in advance, because entries are still coming in and inventing a number would be dishonest. What we can tell you is that it is one entry per person with no way to buy extra entries, so nobody in the draw has a better chance than you do. **What do you get out of giving away £500?** An email address and a first impression. We are a new UK cash competition site and this is how we introduce ourselves. Whether you ever spend anything with us afterwards is entirely up to you. ## Related - [The £500 free prize draw in full](https://granddraws.co.uk/free-prize-draw) - [What no purchase necessary means in the UK](https://granddraws.co.uk/no-purchase-necessary) - [Why our first draw is free](https://granddraws.co.uk/welcome-draw) - [Our paid £500 cash competition](https://granddraws.co.uk/win-500-cash) ## Enter the £500 giveaway Free to enter, no fee to claim, and nothing deducted from the prize. One entry per person. 18+, Great Britain residents. [Enter free](https://granddraws.co.uk/free-draw) ## Your ticket could be next Every competition has published odds, a draw anyone can verify and a free postal route. 18+. [Browse competitions](https://granddraws.co.uk/competitions) --- Grand Draws is a UK skill-based prize competition operator. It is not a casino, not a lottery and not gambling. Every competition requires a correct answer to a genuine skill question and offers a free postal entry route on the same odds. 18+, UK residents only. Please enter within your means.