By HELEN KIRRANE

Updated: 11:33 BST, 1 May 2025

A Premium Bonds saver from Sefton has scooped a £100,000 prize from a holding of just £175, the May 2025 National Savings and Investment draw reveals.

The bond was purchased in November 2003, when Kylie Minogue’s single Slow shot to number 1 on the UK singles charts, in a fitting sign that good things come to those who wait. 

The Sefton winner has therefore seen the value of their £175 investment jump 57,043 per cent on winning their £100,000 prize. 

Two new millionaires have today been created in Derbyshire and Suffolk having bagged the coveted £1million top prizes.

The Derbyshire winner had a holding of £25,361 and purchased their winning Bond in July 2021.

While the Suffolk winner has a holding of £35,000 and bought their winning Bond in April 2017.

Just have a little patience: A Premium Bonds saver scooped a £100k prize from a bond bought in November 2003, when Kylie Minogue's hit single 'Slow' was top of the UK charts

Just have a little patience: A Premium Bonds saver scooped a £100k prize from a bond bought in November 2003, when Kylie Minogue’s hit single ‘Slow’ was top of the UK charts

You can keep as little as £25 in Premium Bonds, but of course the more bonds you hold the more chances you have of winning a prize. The most you can put away in Premium Bonds is £50,000.

Premium Bonds Winners

Prize Area Value of bond
£1,000,000 Derbyshire £16,000
£1,000,000 Suffolk £15,000
£100,000 East Sussex £50,000
£100,000 Suffolk £200
£100,000 Bromley £50,000
£100,000 Essex £14,800
£100,000 West Sussex £4,875
£100,000 Bromley £25

More May 2025 winners

View list of May 2025 winners

The average Premium Bonds saver has £5,406 stashed in Premium Bonds.  

In May’s Premium Bonds prize draw two in five £100,000 prizes – the second biggest prize tier in the draw – were won by Premium Bonds savers with the maximum £50,000 holding, This is Money analysis reveals. 

There were 79 £100,000 Premium Bonds prizes in May’s prize draw. Of these, 31 were scooped up by Premium Bonds holders who had the maximum £50,000 stashed in Premium Bonds. 

The Sefton winner was the smallest holding to win a £100,000 prize at just £175. 

Other notable winners include another lucky Bond holder from Kirklees who scooped £50,000 with a £300 holding alongside a winner from South Gloucestershire with the same win from a bond bought in March 2025 – meaning this was the first draw their bond was eligible to be entered in. Their holding was £2,960.

These wins were very much against the 22,000 to one odds each Bond has in the prize draw. 

There were more than 5.9million prizes drawn this month worth around £413million and 130.5billion eligible bond numbers in May’s Premium Bonds prize draw. 

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