The prize gave her the means to offer an experience the neighbouring family had not previously enjoyed.
A woman from Dartford, Kent, who won £1 million in a UK lottery draw has given £5,000 to her neighbours of 14 years so that their family could take its first holiday abroad, according to the Times of India, citing the Good News Network. The winner, Honorata Jamrozik, a mother of two, received the tax-free prize through the Omaze Monthly Millionaire Draw in 2026. Rather than keeping the whole sum, she chose to direct part of it to people who had been part of her family's life for more than a decade.
The timing gave the win an unusual weight. The report states that Jamrozik had been grieving the death of her father and learned of her fortune after returning from his funeral in Poland. Born in Poland, she has lived in the UK for 25 years, and she described her father as an angel who would always remain by her side, viewing the prize through the lens of that loss. The money could not undo the bereavement, but it offered her a means to make life easier for those close to her.
Her neighbours, the report says, had been wonderful to her family since they moved in, and she regarded them as family. The gift was intended to cover a holiday abroad, allowing them to spend time together away from their usual routines. It is a small share of a seven-figure sum, but the reported reasoning is relational rather than financial: the prize gave her the means to offer an experience the neighbouring family had not previously enjoyed.
The win also bears on her working life. According to the report, Jamrozik spent seven years providing foster care before stepping away to look after her elderly parents in Poland, with frequent travel between the two countries making the work difficult to sustain. She had cared for children of different ages and said the prize would allow her to resume fostering. That is a more consequential claim than the holiday gift, though it rests on her own account as relayed by the report rather than on any confirmed plan.
Her own family is not excluded from the good fortune. She and her husband, married for almost 20 years, were planning a special trip to mark their wedding anniversary in October 2026, and she intended to take her mother along. Her husband had not known she was entering the Omaze draws, the report states, and had been sceptical of their chances, joking that she was more likely to be struck by lightning than to win a million pounds. She entered through a subscription costing £15 a month.
The draw itself offers one UK participant £1 million tax-free each month and, according to the report, had raised more than £140 million for its UK charity partners since launching in 2020. What is not established in the material is how the neighbours received the gift, whether the holiday has been booked, or any independent confirmation of the win beyond the cited report. The story is a human-interest item rather than a policy development, and it should be read as such.
