User:Cookedchook

The Great Cooked Chook Raffle is a brain child of Adrian Pennicott. The initial idea came when Adrian's step daughter brought home fundraising chocolates which got Adrian thinking about the old meat raffle or chook raffles which used to be ran in local pubs or watering holes. Chook raffle is the name given to the Australian tradition of 'raffling off' chicken meat. Perhaps because of this association, the expression tends to be used disparagingly about someone who claims to have, or should have, superior organisational skills, that they "couldn't run a chook raffle".

Adrian's idea was to have the chook raffle but take it to the next step - The Cooked Chook Raffle. Willing participants would throw in money to cover the cost of the chook and then every Friday at 4pm (beer o'clock) the winner would be drawn and have a ready made dinner. The remaining funds would then be placed into a "slush" fund where work colleagues would have social activities.

Inaugural winner of "The Great Cooked Chook Raffle" was Melissa Pursell which was drawn on March 30, 2012.