Lucky charity worker from Dorset wins £2.5m house in Yorkshire for just £10

Omaze Million Pound House Yorkshire winners Jo Booth & hubby Will Harrop astatine their caller £2.5m location (Image: Omaze)

Jo Booth (61) has won the latest Omaze Million Pound House Draw successful Yorkshire, and is present the arrogant proprietor of an 18th period Georgian state location boasting six-bedrooms, acres of gardens and a spa excavation - arsenic good arsenic its ain paddocks, stables and state-of-the-art equestrian facilities.

Her caller spot comes mortgage-free, with each stamp work and ineligible fees covered. She besides scooped a whopping £250,000 successful currency to assistance her settee successful and tin determine to either unrecorded successful the house, rent it retired for a supplementary income oregon merchantability it whenever she wishes to go a currency multi-millionaire.

If she decides to rent it out, section property agents estimation that the spot could execute a semipermanent rental worth of betwixt £6,000 to £7,000 per month.

Jo, who bought her multi-million-pound winning introduction for conscionable £10 arsenic portion of her Omaze subscription, joked that erstwhile Omaze came calling astatine her door, her archetypal thought was that they ”might beryllium burglars!”

She has been joined to hubby Will Harrop (51) for 17 years - and the mates person lived successful their 3-bedroom location successful Dorset, that Will built himself, for the past 15 years.

Jo has worked with the stateless for astir 20 years, mounting up a Community Interest Company (CIC) that works with section authorities to supply accommodation for radical who are unsmooth sleeping oregon astatine hazard of unsmooth sleeping.

Her hubby and eldest son, Tony, besides enactment for the CIC. Her large triumph means she tin yet see retirement, leaving Tony to proceed her bully work. She besides has different son, Dave, whose woman Ciara is connected the committee of directors of the CIC.

She has 2 grandchildren, a lad aged 11 and miss aged 6. She said her aureate labrador, Charlie, “will bask her monolithic caller plot conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic her grandchildren”.

An ecstatic Jo said: “The time I recovered retired I'd won, I’d really skived disconnected enactment to bask a uncommon day playing play with my husband.

“I was already having a beauteous bully time to beryllium fair, I’d changeable my champion ever circular of golf, and was reasoning beingness doesn’t get overmuch amended than this - but past I recovered retired I’d won a multi-million-pound house, and realised I'd scored a location successful 1 arsenic well!

“It was specified a surreal time - 1 infinitesimal you’re surviving a beingness wherever you interest astir each the boring bills - and the adjacent infinitesimal you’re a multi-millionaire and ne'er person to interest astir wealth ever again - it’s a imagination travel true!”

She joked: “When Omaze came to archer maine what I'd won, I conscionable saw a clump of radical successful achromatic puffa jackets heading towards my beforehand doorway - I thought they were burglars astatine first!”

Describing however she celebrated her large win, she said: “It’s been 1 large enactment since we recovered out. Everyone came implicit to our spot and we had a monolithic party, we were raving successful the room until 3am - we drank the location dry, it was an unforgettable nighttime and good worthy the hangover!

“I inactive went to enactment the adjacent day, but arsenic soon arsenic I'd finished, we drove consecutive up to Yorkshire arsenic we were conscionable excessively excited and couldn’t wait!”

On her caller house, she said: “I thought the location looked bully successful pictures, but this spot is perfectly gorgeous successful existent beingness - it was emotion astatine archetypal show - it’s similar thing retired of Downton Abbey!

“We can’t hold to person everyone up present for a mega Christmas party, it’s gonna beryllium a nighttime to remember! And we’ve nary request to bring successful plot furnishings to accommodate each the extended household for Christmas luncheon anymore, arsenic we could astir apt spot everyone we’ve met successful this eating room!

“The archetypal happening we clocked was the vino fridge, we’ll decidedly beryllium keeping that afloat stocked!

“My grandchildren are going to emotion this place, they’ll beryllium causing mayhem and making memories successful nary time! The plot is truthful large we could physique our ain play people - and waking up to the views of Pickering Vale volition ne'er get old.

“We’ll beryllium spoiling the grandchildren rotten this Christmas, I'll astir apt person to bargain my granddaughter a pony present that I person my ain stables.”

On her vocation successful the charitable sector, she said: “I’ve worked with the stateless for astir 20-years now, I emotion my occupation - but you don’t bash it for the wealth that’s for sure. I thought I’d inactive beryllium moving erstwhile I was 90 years aged astatine this rate, but winning this location means I tin yet deliberation astir retiring. I’ve ne'er had a pension, but I reckon I’ll beryllium alright present I've got this place! I’ll ever bash unpaid work, helping radical is conscionable successful my nature, you can’t power disconnected caring.”

On what she plans to bash with the location she said: “After we’ve each enjoyed a fewer parties up here, we’ll astir apt merchantability up and slope the cash, arsenic the immense magnitude of wealth we’ll get is beingness changing for the full family.

“But acknowledgment to £250,000 we’ve pocketed arsenic portion of the win, we could spend to enactment present for 10 years if we wanted to. But cashing successful volition alteration america to assistance each our children and grandchildren, it's a generational bequest for our family, and each for conscionable a tenner!

“We’ll beryllium treating everyone to a large household vacation to determination hot, possibly Florida, play for america and Disneyland for the grandchildren, perfect!

“I lone started entering Omaze successful May, it’s the champion determination I’ve ever made, good possibly conscionable aft marrying my husband, perhaps! I’m truthful gladsome I subscribed, it means I didn’t hide to participate convey goodness!

“We ever springiness arsenic overmuch arsenic we tin to foundation - that’s wherefore I’ve been entering Omaze draws arsenic adjacent if I hadn't won - we’ve inactive contributed towards a worthy origin similar Mencap.”

Jo’s caller location is located successful the desirable territory of Ryedale, her spot is an outstanding illustration of Georgian architecture, surrounded by countryside and acceptable successful a commanding presumption with spectacular views crossed the Vale of Pickering.

The £2.5m location successful Yorkshire (Image: Omaze)

The stunning location has been exquisitely renovated to the highest standards, whilst inactive maintaining its humanities character. The effect is simply a harmonious blend of archetypal play features specified arsenic decorative plaster work, architraves and exposed beams - each flawlessly combined with modern luxuries and conveniences.

She volition beryllium greeted with an awesome entranceway hallway and staircase. The crushed level provides well-balanced surviving spaces offering some practicality and comfortableness for mundane living, with rooms bathed successful earthy airy featuring woody panelling, model seats, heated flooring and different architectural details encompassing the archetypal stonework.

The handcrafted room with apical of the scope fixtures (Image: Omaze)

The spacious but cosy sitting country (Image: Omaze)

Jo tin bask preparing meals for household and friends successful the beautiful, handcrafted room with apical of the scope fixtures including a Butler descend with Quooker tank, marble topped land with meal barroom and a 5 oven Aga cooker. Adjacent to the room are respective storerooms including a accepted pantry with chromatic slab shelving.

There is simply a eating country with ample abstraction for hosting guests and a spacious, but cosy, sitting country with a modern wood burning stove to snuggle up successful beforehand of a occurrence erstwhile wintertime arrives.

Upstairs determination are 4 sizable bedrooms and four-bathrooms - each furnished with the highest prime fixtures and fittings.

The 2nd level is location to a superb loft flat with its ain kitchenette, sitting country and a further two-bedrooms with different bath - an perfect abstraction for teenage children oregon visiting guests.

The maestro chamber (Image: Omaze)

Outdoor eating country (Image: Omaze)

The location is flanked by a sizable terrace, paved successful York Stone, which provides fantabulous areas for entertaining and enjoying the panoramic views.

Overlooking the terrace and built into the slope is simply a bespoke, heated workout and spa excavation - wherever the victor tin bask a dip whilst taking successful the beauteous surroundings.

The tranquil spot has 15 acres of gardens and is approached done chromatic gross pillars, with electrical gates opening to a sweeping backstage driveway. There is simply a manicured tract with herbaceous borders and clipped yew hedges to the beforehand of the property.

It besides has its ain paddocks and state-of-the-art equestrian facilities, including a unchangeable artifact with 8 escaped boxes, 2 foaling boxes, a lavation bay and tack room.

It besides has its ain paddocks and state-of-the-art equestrian facilities (Image: Omaze)

As good arsenic making Jo a multi-millionaire, the Omaze Million Pound House Draw, Yorkshire, raised £3,900,000 for Mencap.

Mencap supports radical with a learning disablement to unrecorded blessed and steadfast lives by supporting them straight and campaigning with them to marque communities and nine fairer and much inclusive.

1.5 cardinal radical successful the UK person a learning disablement and look barriers each time owed to stigma and discrimination.

On average, radical with a learning disablement dice up to 23 years younger than the wide colonisation and galore deaths are avoidable.

Only 5% of radical with a learning disablement person a occupation but 86% of radical with a learning disablement privation to work, they conscionable request a spot much enactment to bash it.

The wealth raised from the Omaze concern volition assistance the foundation to money consciousness initiatives to tackle the favoritism that radical with a learning disablement look each day, breaking down barriers to make a fairer and much inclusive society.

Jon Sparkes OBE, Chief Executive astatine Mencap, said: “On behalf of everyone astatine Mencap, and the 1.5 cardinal radical successful the UK with a learning disability, I privation to convey everyone who entered this gully and helped scope this unthinkable total.

“People with a learning disablement look barriers and inequality each azygous day. Societal barriers, favoritism and a deficiency of knowing mean that radical with a learning disablement are much apt to person a reduced beingness expectancy, are sometimes locked distant against their volition and often incapable to bash galore things that different radical instrumentality for granted.

“The wealth from this Omaze concern volition rather virtually alteration lives. It volition alteration Mencap to money important campaigning work, helping america to interruption down barriers and make a fairer, much inclusive nine wherever radical with a learning disablement tin thrive.”

The concern with Omaze was backed by actor, Dr Who star, and arrogant Yorkshire native, Jodie Whittaker, who said: "Wow, what a fantastic magnitude of wealth for Mencap, which is an perfectly superb cause. I'm implicit the satellite that this concern volition person specified an interaction for radical with a learning disability."

James Oakes, Chief International Officer astatine Omaze, said: “Everyone astatine Omaze is delighted that Jo has won this beauteous location successful Yorkshire, whilst besides contributing to the £3,900,000 raised for Mencap.

“Omaze offers radical the accidental to triumph astonishing houses, similar this unthinkable location successful Yorkshire, whilst besides introducing charities to ample caller audiences that would different beryllium retired of scope – it’s a win-win for entrants and charities. We’re immensely arrogant that the Omaze assemblage has present raised implicit £60 cardinal for bully causes crossed the UK.”

Draw entries for the Omaze Million Pound House Draw, Devon, are disposable present at omaze.co.uk. The Draw closes connected Sunday 27th October for online entries and Tuesday 29th October 2024 for postal entries.

Entrants tin besides take to subscribe to Omaze to beryllium automatically entered into each Grand Prize and Early Bird Prize, each month. Omaze subscribers person astatine slightest 4 times the magnitude of entries compared to non-subscribers and tin cancel their subscription astatine immoderate time.

For afloat presumption and conditions, spot www.omaze.co.uk. No acquisition indispensable to enter. Over 18s and UK residents only.