Westward Ho! couple put their £700,000 house in a raffle to help charity

A £700,000 house in Westward Ho! is up for grabs in a raffle with a difference.

Sue and George Panis are offering their six-bedroom home as a prize in a competition that will raise cash for the Children's Hospice South West and charity Mind.

Panis

Fed up with the credit crunch and state of the property market, the couple are hoping to generate £800,000 from the competition, with £40,000 going to charity.

They are aiming to sell 40,000 tickets each priced at £20. £1 from each ticket will go to charity.

Sue said: "We had the idea a long time ago but we are not really computer buffs so we put it to the back of our minds. We then saw another couple in Devon doing something similar and that has spurred us into action.

"We now have a web designer on board and our website — www.winadevonmanor.co.uk — is up and running."

The couple have had the house on and off the market for a couple of years and two sales have fallen through.

They have owned the house for seven years and spent about £50,000 on improvements from a new designer kitchen to maintaining Victorian details of the building.

Sue said: "We are both in our 60s and want to scale down. The house is stunning with fantastic sea views as well as having all the original features, but we are both exhausted with it.

"I will be devastated to leave and wouldn't move but three bedrooms would be just fine and I don't want to run a B&B all my life."

The house, which was the former Broomhayes School, was a children's home in the 1950s.

It is now described as a detached six-bedroom, five-bathroom house with panoramic views over the sea and burrows. It has two reception rooms, a conservatory, snooker room, Jacuzzi and landscaped gardens and patios. As well as the main house, there is a one-bedroom annexe.

Sue said the couple have chosen the Children's Hospice South West, where she works, as she sees what a difference it makes to children and their families. The rest of the money raised for charity will go to Mind in Taunton and West Somerset.

Broomhayes Manor will be presented to the winner with all the letting rooms and apartment fully furnished. And the opportunity to continue running it as a guesthouse.

If the couple sell less than the 40,000 tickets hoped, the draw will still take place and the prize will be the total amount raised from the sale of tickets to the six month cut off, minus £1 a ticket for charity, and less all legitimate expenditure in running the competition.

The draw is set to take place on St Valentine's Day next year.

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by Paul Hammond, east sussex

Sunday, April 19 2009, 10:32AM

“Can anyoune inform of latest info?”

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by Karen, Fremington

Thursday, September 25 2008, 2:57PM

“The web site is still not working, is it an IT problem or has the draw been cancelled?”

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by liz, Maidenhead

Friday, September 12 2008, 11:28AM

“I thought I had bought tickets on the internet, but Google have refunded my money... Can't find the website now. Anyone know if something's happened?”

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by Bob Tracy, Minehead (on behalf of MIND)

Friday, September 05 2008, 6:09PM

“Due to excessive demand unfortunately website was down this afternoon. However, this problem has now been fixed and the site should be up and running again now. Please try again.”

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by Chris, Web

Friday, September 05 2008, 5:40PM

“Hi,

google is failing with HTTP 500 when using the 'Place you order now'

Error diagnostic is
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Please advise when this is fixed because I have used both Mozilla and Internet explorer. I work in IT and its definitely a Google server error problem.

Regards
Chris”

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