The draw for the Nectar one million point will be held on 6th January 2009 at Gala Bingo. An independent Judge will overlook the procedure and randomly the winner will be drawn. The one million points will be credited to their Nectar card!!!! Nectar and Gala Bingo have joined hands and the bingo players can register online at bingo site with their Nectar card and they will get 2 Nectar reward points for every £1 bingo tickets.

You can use your Nectar points at Argos or at online stores for making purchases at cooking, Do It Yourself  kits, home appliances, fitness product, child trust fund,home furnishing etc.the list is on and on.

So what are you waiting for? Get registered at Gala Bingo with your Nectar card and be a Nectar Millionaire. May be its You…The millionaire having million point to spend in the coming year making it the Luckiest New Year for you. Happy Bingoing!

Switching on to online Bingo Halls from Land Casinos has been supported by the figures given by JacpotCity.com that say that since its launch almost a year back (December 2007) the website has gained leaps and bounds reporting its monthly increase of new registrations. The players are now in thousands and they claim that there is a 60 per cent increase in their profit.

The impact of shifting from Land Base Casino Halls to online Casino website is so significant that renowned Land Based Casino Companies like Gala Bingo and Mecca Bingo have already jumped into their online game series to not being out of the race! Many die-hard Bingo players really feel great when they are allowed to smoke to kick out their stresses while playing Bingo while others state that they cannot feel gambling without smoking that is now quite difficult in Land based Casinos with Bingo Halls!

In addition to figures showed by online casino Bingo halls, Land Casinos in Scotland also report a great damage to their earnings. According to them, a ban on smoking has been a sheer disaster and has affected almost all high rated bingo halls. Their income (that has also affected the prize money) has drastically fallen by half and many of them had to shut down with no any other option left.

Although Gala Bingo have been involved in raising funds for charities for a very long time, their efforts in the past have been diversified. This time all the staff at Gala bingo were asked to identify one charitable concern and the outcome of the vote from staff members had Sue Ryder Care as the winner. Su Ryder Care is a concern that takes care of  seriously ill people who suffer from many different illnesses, they also provide support to the families of the sick people.

In the latest fund raising drive Gala Bingo had 136 women taking part in a night walk, they, together with Sainbury’s, the supermarket chain, helped to supply all walk participants with refreshments once they had finished their walk. One of the organizers of the night walk, Pierson Mckenzie described Gala Bingo and Sainbury’s as being great in their support of Sue Ryder Care fund raising events. He said that the event itself was terrific, they had walkers of all ages from thirteen year old girls to an eighty nine year old woman in a wheelchair.

The two page High 5 game has been launched nationwide in all Gala Bingo clubs, and apparently this is going to provide customers with more chances to win as well as an improved bingo experience. I don’t really understand this, as the National Bingo game handed out some really great prizes throughout many of the Gala bingo clubs in the UK. However, these guys are the biggest bingo operators in the UK, so they must know what they are doing.

Gala Bingo has set aside ₤210 000 to get the new High 5 game off to a flying start. This means that there is a fourteen day, 28 session free draw for ₤5 000 in the afternoon and ₤10 000 in the evening. As much as 5 000 customers will receive free cash from this promotion.

The most positive thing about the High 5 promotion is that it is shared, this makes everyone feel like a winner, and the second page that has been added to the game allows for a ₤500 jackpot. Gala bingo says that locally there is more cash to be won in every club.

They are very happy that they continued to play because she won ₤60 000 in the National Bingo Game, ₤1 759 in the Regional Game and a mean ₤150 for a house prize. She called bingo in forty four numbers and though she had won the house prize. The woman and her husband have three children and is going to use the money to pay off some bills and in celebration of the win, her and her husband want to take a holiday. They are thinking about going to Las Vegas. She added that she still can’t believe she won the National Bingo prize and will only really believe that it is all true once she has the cheque in her hands.

Isn’t it strange, but all National Bingo winners have the same reaction, they all believe that they couldn’t possibly have won, until they receive the cheque. It doesn’t seem to matter that they have been given written confirmation by the bingo club, they have to have the cheque. Still, I suppose a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

The reason for this is probably the old adage, “the bigger you are the harder you fall”. In other words, the huge bingo operating companies such as Mecca Bingo and Gala Bingo have a massive operation to deal with and the tiniest little loss from each club, say 0.25 of a percent, but multiplied a hundredfold is going to make much more of a difference to the bottom line of the bingo business of a group than it would for an independent operator.

One such independent operator is the North Parade Bingo and Social Club in Skegness. As a child Skegness was one of my most favourite seaside towns and it has remained a huge favourite with much of the UK public. They are privately run and can offer better value than any of the big brand bingo clubs, perhaps the prizes are not as large, but the fun and value for money equals and betters that of big brand bingo.

Gala Bingo is a privately owned concern and the group spokesperson is saying that the group is still cautious about the market for 2008, they will be forging ahead with their plans to tackle the Government regarding the impact of double taxation, and if the market does worsen they will look a matters more closely if and when the time arises.

They have stated that the double slap on the wrist with the smoking ban and the taxation issue has affected business but not nearly as badly as it has with the other groups. Perhaps Gala Bingo has what it takes when it comes down to brass tacks and they are fit to survive the bingo slump, and now with their venture into China to open bingo halls in the Hebei province, they can probably look forward to huge increases in revenue.