Play Wink Bingo and Win Free Tesco Shopping For A Year

July 21st, 2008

Wink Bingo of UK has partnered with supermarket celebrity Tesco to allow a lucky winner to avail of the opportunity of buying a year’s grocery with Wink Bingo tab. The players will be required to participate with one bingo card to get the chance to win a grand prize amounting to the dream amount of £4,800.

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Virgin Bingo Celebrates End of the School Year

July 12th, 2008

Virgin Bingo is in the throes of celebrating the end of the school year and entry into summer at full swing. They have lined up some very exciting prizes for their members and these include hampers full of Virgin cosmetics, Virgin balloon rides, spa treatments and picnic hampers. All very summery things! All you have to do to take home any of these luxury promotions is check the Virgin bingo site on a Monday and that will tell them how they can qualify for one of these lovely prizes. There is also a holiday in the Caribbean, through Virgin Holidays, up for grabs at the Le Sport in St Lucia.

These wonderful prizes are indicative of the kind of competition that online bingo sites in the UK are up against, and it is only going to get better for UK bingo players online. The more operators there are in the industry, the stronger the competition for new players to join and old ones to remain loyal. So I believe that it is going to be a bumper summer for all online bingo players in the UK, with some very serious prizes up for grabs. I am very curious as to what is going to come up next, as I am being surprised all the time by these fantastic prizes.

Online Bingo Comes of Age

July 2nd, 2008

Online Bingo is not really all that new, although many people seem to believe that this is a new innovation, the first game of online bingo actually appeared in the United States in 1995 that is all of twelve years ago. However its expansion and popularity has been spread because of the readily available appearance of broadband internet access.

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Gala Bingo Punts Wimbledon

June 24th, 2008

With Wimbledon batting off this week, if you are a fan of both tennis and online bingo, you will find that Gala Bingo has a great new promotion on the go. Wimbledon is the only tennis tournament that is played on a grass court and it is also the oldest in tennis tournament in the world today. This tennis tournament is anticipated by tennis fans world-wide.

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Stress Relieving Bingo

June 20th, 2008

Everyone needs a break no and then, particularly in this day and age. This is necessary to alleviate the pressures on the mind and body and just de-stress. Playing bingo is an excellent option to de-stress. More people under the age of forty are suffering from heart attacks that are stress related and doctors recommend that people take care of their stress related problems to take care of their health and reduce strain on their bodies.

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Fundraising for Mirror Bingo

June 12th, 2008

It is true that bingo has traditionally been used for fundraising, particularly for needy charities and online bingo operators are no exception. There is a veritable host of online bingo sites that raise funds for charity and Mirror Bingo is one of these. They recently raised ₤13 000 for the Children with Leukemia Charity. This is a really worthy cause! The Children with Leukemia charity has said that this marvelous donation has made a huge difference to their funds. The cash was made up of all the profits that Mirror Bingo made on the fund raising day. Read the rest of this entry »

Crown Bingo Raises Funds for Charity

June 7th, 2008

Crown bingo have raised more than ₤1 000 after a series of bingo charity events hosted by the website. Considering that bingo has a remarkable history of raising funds for charity, going back many years, I find this story really heartwarming. Their charity of choice is BLISS and now their coffers are a little fuller than they were previously. BLISS distributes specially knitted clothing to neonatal units throughout the British Isles as premature babies are too small for shop bought clothing. Crown Bingo’s donation of cash was not the only contribution they made to this worthy cause. Read the rest of this entry »

Online Bingo Operator Enjoys Better Q1

May 29th, 2008

Bingo.com, the online bingo operator is having a better first quarter this year than last year. According to un-audited accounts, both player acquisitions and revenues were up while operating costs have been reduced, however the company was still showing a loss. Although the first quarter shows growth for bingo.com and they have entrenched themselves well into the UK online bingo playing market, it is surprising that they have declared a net loss. Read the rest of this entry »

Huge Blow to National Bingo Game

May 22nd, 2008

The UK National Bingo Game is in for a huge shock later on this year when Gala Bingo pulls out of the “National”. Gala bingo has announced that it is pulling out of the national Game in August? I can’t help thinking that this actually might be a bad decision for Gala Bingo though, particularly because of the fact that the National game offers such huge prizes and is a massive draw card for UK bingo players. Read the rest of this entry »

Mark Formosa Visits Mecca Bingo Taunton

May 18th, 2008

Mark Formosa is hoping to stand for the Conservative Party in the next Taunton General Elections and as such has been on a bit of a campaign trail. One of his most notable visits was to the Mecca Bingo Club in Taunton where he did the celebrity bit by calling the numbers on a game. Read the rest of this entry »