Guides

Practical, plain-language help for the people who end up running the drawing: PTA volunteers, church committees, teachers and office party planners.

The drawing is the fun part. These guides cover everything around it: planning, fairness, rules, record keeping, and how to handle the awkward moments. They are written from the point of view of a volunteer with a clipboard, not a casino.

• How to run a PTA or church raffle
  A step-by-step plan for a PTA night or church social raffle: prizes, tickets, volunteers, the draw itself, announcing winners and closing the books.
• Fair drawing methods compared
  Compare a hat of paper slips, a spinning wheel, a numbered ticket drum and a digital random picker. What makes each fair, where each fails, and how The Hat Draw shuffles.
• Raffle legal basics for small organizers
  General background on how raffles are regulated, the difference between paid raffles and free drawings, licenses, and records. Not legal advice; rules vary by state and country.
• Running an office prize drawing
  How to run a fair office prize drawing for holiday parties, all-hands meetings and remote teams: eligibility, entries, prizes, live draws, and announcing winners.
• Ticket numbering and record keeping
  A simple system for numbering raffle tickets, tracking ticket rolls and sellers, reconciling cash, recording winners and storing records after the draw.

Want to know exactly what happens when you press Draw? Read How The Hat Draw works.

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Last updated 10 October 2026.