The Wraggs charity splurge

Descriptor: First we see a photo of Barbara and Ray, wearing football shirts, with National Lottery champagne flutes and a football between their heads, before we see a close up of the balls spinning in the lottery machine. We then see wide shots of the houses that the Wraggs lived in before and after they won the lottery.

Narrator: When the Wragg family from Sheffield won seven point six million pounds on The National Lottery, it literally was a rags to riches story.

Descriptor: We now meet Barbara and Ray Wragg, who won £7.6 million on the lottery, sitting on their sofa describing life before they won the money.

Barbara: Before we won the lottery, I worked permanent night duty, I'd done that for 22 years and I was absolutely worn out.

Descriptor: We then see a black and white photo of Ray in a hard hat, attached to a line on a roof, before going back to them both on the sofa. We then see a photocopy of their winning lottery ticket and a newspaper story including a photo from when they won.

Ray: I was a, construction er, supervisor for a, for a roofing company and I was travelling roughly a thousand mile a week. On, on the Saturday night when we won er, the following money I would have been down in er, in Newport and I would have been there, but er, for some unknown reason I didn't go.

Descriptor: We now zoom in on the house where the Wraggs lived before winning the lottery. We then go back to them sitting on the sofa, where Ray describes finding out they had all the numbers.

Barbara: When we first found out he'd won the jackpot, we were in our living room at the old house, and we were babysitting our granddaughter, youngest granddaughter.

Ray: Barbara said to me, she said, oh she said we, we've got three numbers. Oh I says, that's brilliant, that will pay for Wednesday's and Saturdays. She says we've got four, oh I says, brilliant that meant, that's great then that, we'll er, you know we'll be able to put it on for a few week and it's not going to cost us any money. Then, then you said.

Barbara: Ray we've got six, and you know really, I couldn't believe, so he said we haven't, and I says we have, he says we haven't, I says we have, you check. And he checked, he says, we have and I'm saying we haven't, you know we're contradicting one another.

Descriptor: We now pan down from the sky to an exterior shot of the house that they won with their lottery winnings.

Narrator: after winning the jackpot Ray and Barbara traded in their council house for a five bedroom dream home.

Descriptor: We now see Barbara and Ray enter their living room, with various shots of the interior of the room, before an outside shot of Barbara playing with her dog. We then focus in on a photo of the dog on the wall and elephant statuettes on the mantle. Finally Ray shows us his clock.

Barbara: This is what we call my room. I get banished here when the football's on. That's a picture of Billy, the Bully.

Ray: These are the same dogs as what er, Princess Anne has, but we've never had a problem at all with ours.

Barbara: Can you see the elephants, they've all got to have their trunk up though, some of those haven't got their trunk up, and they've got to be facing an outside wall. It's supposed to be lucky. And apparently two other lottery winners collect elephants as well. Tell them about your clock.

Ray: Its light activated and it plays a tune every hour, on, on the hour.

Barbara: Unfortunately.

Descriptor: We now see Barbara and Ray in their bedroom. Barbara tells us her relief at having won the lottery.

Barbara: We wake up every morning and think thank god don't we, that we won the lottery, it's like waking up in a hotel every morning, you know, but a friendly hotel where we live, not where we don't belong.

Descriptor: We once again see a wide exterior shot of their current house before we see a newspaper headlines on the screen which reads, "Winners raise bagful of cash for charities," and "Winners bring joy to pupils," as well as photos.

Narrator: After scooping the jackpot, Ray and Barbara Wragg had no plans to spend all their winnings on themselves, instead as one of the most generous winners in the lottery's history, they started giving money away to various good causes, including Sheffield's children's hospital.

Descriptor: Once again we see Barbara and Ray sitting on their sofa, as they discuss the donations that they have made since they won the lottery. We then see a photo of them in the hospital, beside the MRI scanner they provided, before seeing an exterior shot of the house and the dog in the garden.

Ray: We made a big donation to the MRI scanner which they hadn't got.

Barbara: A child sized one.

Ray: Which for us I mean even talking about it now, you still get funny feelings.

Barbara: You get goose bumps don't you, you know we knew with that amount of money we've got to do something with it. So that's why we've done what we've done and that's given perhaps two thirds of it away. Our friends and family didn't mind us giving so much money away because they were um, we'd made sure they were comfortably off and they'd no ways, I mean nobody's got mortgages anymore you know and er, we, they were quite happy, they were satisfied.

Descriptor: We now see a low shot of a National Lottery award, surrounded by dog statuettes.

Narrator: but their incredible generosity hasn't gone unrecognised.

Descriptor: Ray and Barbara now show us the award that they were presented with for their generosity and hard work.

Ray: This is an award what me and Barbara got and, er, Eamon Holmes presented us with it, but this for, I think this is really what we've achieved er, through charities and, and that what we've done you know, and, and, and we're really, really proud of it.

Barbara: You don't expect to win £7.6 million but I mean if you do why not do something nice with it.

Ray: And that's what we've done and we've enjoyed it, every minute.