Easy Money For Eccles

Nine neighbours from Eccles enjoyed amazing cash windfalls on Saturday, all thanks to their postcode. Players from Lulworth Road took home the biggest shares of our monthly £3 Million prize when postcode M30 8WP was drawn in May's Postcode Millions. One player, Clare, scooped a thrilling £300,000. Another eight neighbours each collected cheques for £150,000.

Clare, who works in security, scooped the biggest prize of the day. She picked up a massive £300,000, after playing People's Postcode Lottery with two tickets tickets. Clare said, "I've played the lottery for a few years and I was going to cancel recently because I was short of money, but I'm so glad today that I didn't do that. Never in a million years did I think my postcode would come up. This money will mean that I can pay off the mortgage and move closer to work, because at the moment I travel 60 miles a day for my job. I think I'll celebrate by taking my boyfriend Tim on a nice holiday. I never realized how many people on my road played the lottery until now and it feels great to win with them all!"

Project Manager and mother-of-two Gillian was thrilled to win £150,000. She's now going to plan her wedding with partner Dan. Gillian said, "We've been engaged for three years, but because we couldn't afford a wedding we kept putting it off. We always wanted a small wedding and we'll still do that, but now we can make it extra special for our guests. We've also just moved house recently and we had a ten-year plan for doing it up, but with this win we can get things done much quicker."

Retired Frank had two reasons to celebrate this weekend. As well as picking up a cheque for £150,000, Frank was also celebrating his 50th wedding anniversary with wife Brenda. He said, "This is just marvellous. I'm in complete shock – I've never had this amount of money before in my life!"

Frank and Brenda are celebrating the golden weekend with a party at their daughter's house. They have already started making plans to spend the windfall. Frank said, "It would be lovely to go on holiday to Benidorm as we were last there 23 years ago. I'll also be helping out our three kids too."

£150,000 winner Gary is also heading away on holiday to Ibiza to celebrate. Other winners from Lulworth Road were Wesley, Elizabeth, Jill, Karen and Steven.

Every month, a community in Britain shares £3 Million with our Postcode Millions prize. 491 winners were invited to a party at Patricroft Recreation Ground on Saturday. The minimum amount won was £2,678. This was the second month in a row that a postcode in the Manchester area landed the Postcode Millions prize. Last month, winners in Audenshaw took home a terrific £294,334 each.

People's Postcode Lottery Presenter Jeff Brazier handed out cheques to our winners in Eccles. Jeff said, "What a fantastic day at Patricroft Recreation Ground! The winners made the atmosphere electric and it really was a massive pleasure to hand out such life-changing amounts of money. Well done to each and every one of our winners in Eccles."

32% of People's Postcode Lottery's ticket price goes to charity. To date, players have raised over £301 Million for more than 4,000 good causes across Great Britain and around the world. This Postcode Millions Prize was promoted by charity ActionAid. A number of local projects around the winning postcode area have received support from players of People's Postcode Lottery. These include Salford Unemployed & Community Resource Centre, which was awarded £19,992 last year to support people with disabilities.

If you aren't playing yet, sign up and you'll play in a Postcode Millions - £3 Million is up for grabs every month. With a little bit of luck, your postcode could win big too. Players win Prizes every day and it only takes two minutes to subscribe to People's Postcode Lottery online. Best of all, you'll be supporting a range of deserving Charities. Find out How It Works and with your help, we can support even more amazing projects.

Take a look at our May Postcode Millions Facebook Gallery to see more photos from the day.

Also, there were delighted winners elsewhere this weekend. One lucky player celebrated scooping an amazing £60,000 in Saturday's Street Prize. Two neighbours in Sunday's Street Prize also celebrated winning a superb £30,000 each.