The Lodge
Learn how the whole thing works.
The Lodge is for people building and running competition businesses. No weekly content quota. No 900 word answer to a 30 second question. Just useful explanations of the technology, operation and rules behind the category.
The answer comes first. Beaver only appears where it is relevant.
Featured
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Guide
How to verify a prize draw
What gets committed, where the randomness comes from and how somebody checks the result.
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Guide
How to start a prize competition business in the UK
The model, the rules, the setup and the operation, in the order that matters.
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Compliance
Prize draw or prize competition?
Two models that are often spoken about as if they are the same thing. They aren't.
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Compliance
Free entry routes explained
What they are, why they matter and how the entry reaches the same competition pool.
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Compliance
The DCMS Voluntary Code
What it asks participating operators to do and where software fits.
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Compliance
Skill questions
Why a question on the checkout is not automatically a legal skill test.
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Guides
Practical, step by step explanations for operators.
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Compliance library
Sourced, dated explainers on the rules, kept separate from product claims.
How we write The Lodge
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Titles stay literal so you can find them. Comparisons, research and more guides are on the way; we will publish them when they are genuinely useful.