Heart's £35K Payday: How to play!

8 May 2025, 14:48 | Updated: 21 May 2025, 10:46

You could win a whole year's pay, every day on Heart!
You could win a whole year's pay, every day on Heart! Picture: Heart
Alice Dear

By Alice Dear

Heart's £35K Payday is giving you the chance to win £35,000 every single weekday!

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Every weekday this month, we’re giving you the chance to win a massive £35,000 – and it’s all tax-free!

It’s Heart’s £35K Payday, and you could be £35,000 richer by the time you finish work today. That's life-changing money, landing straight in your bank account.

Just listen for the Payday Alarm between 8:00am and 5:30pm and when you hear it, get ready to enter! Then, at 5:30pm JK & Kelly will close the lines and pick one correct entry at random – if it’s yours, you’ll bag a whopping £35,000.

You can enter online!
You can enter online! Picture: Heart

How do I enter?

You can enter the ‘Heart’s £35K Payday’ Promotion by texting WIN followed by the name of the artist who performs the current £35k Payday Song to 82122. Texts cost £2 plus your standard network rate.

You can also enter online through Heart’s Win+ platform. Entry packages start from £2. You must be 18 or over to play this Heart Network Promotion.

If you are listening to Heart Scotland you can text the word PAYDAY followed by the name of the artist to 82122. Texts cost £2 plus your standard network rate.

All entries, sent with both keywords, plus online entries, will be added into the same draw for each round. Please don’t enter any given round of the Promotion using the two different keywords, as you may lose any additional bonus entries that you are due.

All terms & conditions and FAQs can be found here.

Heart's 35K Payday winners

35K Play winners so far
35K Play winners so far. Picture: Global/Heart

Sally Kearn is a full-time carer for her son and also has a part-time job to make ends meet. She was actually at home with her two sons when JK and Kelly told her that she's now £35,000 richer! She's going to use that money to take her boys on the trip of a lifetime to Disneyland!

Bryony John was out with her horses when she got that fateful call from JK and Kelly. This money is going to change her family's lives forever. She's going to put some money towards a house and helping out her mum and sister!

Sam Smith was out working in the sun and had just got home from work when he became £35,000 richer! He's got a trip to Australia coming up soon, which is now going to be the trip of a lifetime!

Rebecca Staples works in a children’s home but was on a well-deserved day off. She was shaking the entire way through the call, because she knew that she was about to win £35,000! She's got a couple of family birthdays coming up and she's in desperate need of a holiday as she's not had one since 2019! She might even do up her house too!

Michael Lethbridge was out and about chatting to clients all day, as he’s an architect! He’s been entering Heart’s big money games for years now and today was the day he got through! His partner lives in Poland, and has been unwell as of late, so the 35 grand will pay for them to have a relaxing getaway together! He’ll also divvy some of the cash up between his two daughters and granddaughters!

Julie Fletcher had just got home from work when she got that fateful call from JK and Kelly. Her son Kyle was waiting on her to take him boxing, but he had to wait while she found out that she’s won 35 thousand pounds! She’s just bought her house this year so the cash will go on a new kitchen and bathroom. She’ll also whisk ten-year-old Kyle off on a holiday to remember!

Abi Townsend had spent her day looking after her little one who was a bit under the weather - but she ended the day on a high as she’s now £35,000 richer! Husband Tom’s decided he wants a brand-new Ford Galaxy for their 12-year old, their twins and their Golden Retriever! But not before they have a chippy tea washed down with a glass of champagne.