Last updated: 2 September 2026. I re-checked every Sprive prize draw rule below against sprive.com on 2 September 2026.
By Stiv · Design, technology and personal finance
I have run Sprive alongside my Nationwide mortgage since October 2021, pushing £100 a month into overpayments through the app. That is heading for five years of daily use, so what follows comes from the app and the terms rather than a press release.
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Now for the short version. Three draws are running today, and none of them reward overpaying. The headline one rewards referrals. A second, much quieter draw pays somebody's whole next mortgage payment every week. Meanwhile the newest one puts £5,000 towards one winner's mortgage for shopping at adidas through the app, and it closes at 23:59 on 30 September 2026.
Chasing a Sprive prize? How the draws really work is below. For every Sprive guide in one place, see my Sprive guides hub.
What the Sprive prize draw actually is
First, the correction, because plenty of sites get this wrong. The Sprive prize draw does not reward overpayments. It rewards referrals. Specifically, you earn an entry when a friend you invited completes their first shop in the app.
Signing up is not enough on its own. Your friend has to buy a gift card through Sprive before your entry counts. If they register and then stall, Sprive says the entry simply rolls into a future draw once that first shop happens.
There are also three separate draws running at once, which is where most of the confusion starts. One rewards referrals. One is for brand new users. One runs through adidas until the end of September. They have different entry rules and wildly different prizes.
Which Sprive prize draw can you enter today, 2 September 2026? The weekly referral draw, the next mortgage payment draw for new users, and the Sprive x adidas £5,000 draw, which closes at 23:59 on 30 September 2026. The Just Eat draw closed on 31 August and now sits under past draws further down.
Draw one: the referral prize draw
This is the Sprive prize draw most people mean. It runs weekly until further notice. Entries close at 23:59 on Sundays, and you claim your prize in the app on Monday.
The weekly prize table is unusually generous on paper. According to Sprive's referral prize draw terms, each week hands out 1 x £2,000, 1 x £250 and 1 x £100. After that, "Everyone else wins £5 multiplied by the number of referrals they made."
So yes, everyone who enters wins something. That is unusual for a prize draw. However, the fourth line of that table is where almost everyone lands.
The terms cap you at 10 entries. They also say multiple referrals in a single week still produce only one prize, and that participants may only win once. Refunded or cancelled purchases can invalidate an entry too, so a friend who buys a gift card and then cancels may cost you your place.
Draw two: your next mortgage payment, paid
This second Sprive prize draw is the one worth knowing about, and it is far easier to enter. You download Sprive, register, and do a single shop through the app. That is it. One entry per account.
The prize is your next mortgage payment, paid by Sprive and capped at £5,000. Sprive draws one winner every Monday. Per the next mortgage payment prize draw terms, the campaign went live at 1pm on Monday 2 February 2026 and ends at 23:59 on Sunday 3 January 2027. Draws run from 9 February 2026 to 4 January 2027.
Crucially, this one is new users only. If you have ever held a Sprive account, you cannot enter. Winners get seven days to respond before Sprive may redraw.
Draw three: £5,000 towards your mortgage, via adidas
The newest Sprive prize draw is the one filling my dashboard this month. It arrived on 1 September as a full screen takeover with the adidas logo and a countdown, and the wording is blunt: "Do a £5+ shop at adidas to enter the draw."
The shop has to go through the Sprive app
The shop has to go through the Sprive app to count. Buying trainers on adidas.co.uk earns you nothing and enters you into nothing. In practice you buy an adidas gift card inside Sprive, paid for from your linked bank account, which is how every Sprive shop works.
Otherwise the mechanic matches August's. According to the Sprive x adidas prize draw terms, each qualifying adidas transaction of £5 or more earns one entry, "up to a maximum of ten (10) entries per user, regardless of the number of orders placed". Cancelled or refunded purchases do not count.
There is one prize of £5,000, "credited to the winner's Sprive account so they can pay that toward their mortgage". The campaign runs from 00:00 on 1 September 2026 to 23:59 on 30 September 2026, and the draw itself takes place on 1 October. Sprive then notifies the winner by email within 14 days, and the winner has 14 days to claim.
Eligibility is wide. Any UK resident aged 18 or over can enter, and the only exclusions are employees of Sprive, employees of adidas, their group companies and agents, and anyone professionally connected with the draw. Ambassadors are not on that list, so unlike the referral draw, this is one I can enter myself.
The terms also push two jobs onto the winner. Checking your own overpayment allowance and any early repayment charges is your responsibility rather than Sprive's, and Sprive states it is not liable for lender charges. Sprive also announces the winner on Instagram alongside a testimonial, although you can object to that if you would rather stay quiet.
Past draws
Sprive prize draw campaigns tied to a named retailer rotate monthly, so August's has already gone.
Sprive x Just Eat, £10,000, now closed
This one closed at 23:59 on 31 August 2026, so it can no longer be entered. While it ran, the Sprive x Just Eat prize draw terms worked exactly as the adidas draw does now: buy Just Eat gift cards through the app, £5 or more per transaction, one entry each, ten entries maximum. One winner took £10,000 credited to their Sprive account for their mortgage, drawn on 1 September 2026.
August paid £10,000 through Just Eat and September pays £5,000 through adidas. Both ran for exactly one calendar month, both used the same £5 threshold and the same ten entry cap, and both credited the prize to the winner's Sprive account rather than their bank. Sprive has not said whether October brings a third.
What "and a boost" actually means
Every prize in the referral terms is quoted oddly, as "£5 and a boost" or "£2,000 and a boost". Sprive never defines "a boost" anywhere in its published terms, which is a small transparency gap.
In my own app, a boost is an extra percentage added to the cashback on merchant gift cards, and it is time limited. When I went through the Shop tab brand by brand in August, the boosted rates ran between half a point and a full point above the everyday ones: Sainsbury's moved from 2.5% to 3%, Tesco and ASDA from 2.5% to 3.5%, and M&S from 3% to 4%. A "preview a boost" tab shows you the effect before you commit.
Do not confuse a boost with the Supercharge toggle sitting near it. Supercharge adds projected mortgage interest savings on top of the cashback rate, so the number on screen gets much bigger while the money you actually earn stays the same.
Sprive also hands some boosts out as challenges rather than gifts. On my dashboard this morning, a pink card read "Shop £50+ of groceries for 4 weeks", showing week one of four and an end date of Monday 7 September.
That is my account rather than Sprive's, because Sprive does not publish a definition. Treat it as a modest top-up, not a second prize.
The honest arithmetic on the Sprive prize draw
Now for the maths, which is the whole reason this post exists. Sprive's own worked example is blunt: 10 referrals earns you £50 if you do not land a top prize.
Realistically, most people refer two or three friends. Therefore most people win £10 or £15. That is a nice surprise, but it is not a financial plan.
Set that against the app's core job. Sprive's own savings illustration is based on "£92 paid monthly as an overpayment on a repayment mortgage with a balance of £250,000 at 5% interest for 30 years". In other words, a typical draw win covers roughly a sixth of one month's overpayment.
Sprive also does not publish how many people enter each week. Consequently nobody outside the company can calculate the odds on that £2,000. Anyone quoting you a figure is guessing.
The adidas draw arithmetic
The adidas draw needs its own sum, because it works differently. Ten entries means ten separate transactions of £5 or more, so £50 of adidas credit as a minimum, and there is exactly one prize for the whole month. Again, Sprive publishes no entrant numbers, so the odds cannot be quoted honestly by anyone.
Consequently the sensible test is whether you were buying adidas anyway. If you were, the entries cost you nothing extra and the usual cashback still lands. If you were not, you are spending £50 on kit you did not want in order to chase a single ticket, which is the opposite of what an overpayment app is for.
So my honest read is this. The draws are a pleasant extra for people already using the app. They are not a reason to start overpaying, and they are certainly not a reason to overpay faster. If you want the case for and against overpaying at all, I covered it in overpay your mortgage or invest.
The Ambassador rule, and which draw it locks me out of
Here is the counter-intuitive bit. Sprive shuts Ambassadors out of the referral prize draw entirely. The terms define an Ambassador as "someone who has done 10+ total referrals since joining Sprive", and they move to a separate referral programme instead.
I am one of them. More than ten people have joined through my link over the years, so the weekly prize table is closed to me. I still receive boosts.
That exclusion is specific to the referral draw, though. I read the eligibility clause in all three sets of Sprive prize draw terms on 2 September 2026, and neither the next mortgage payment draw nor the adidas draw mentions Ambassadors at all. Both exclude Sprive staff, and adidas excludes its own staff too. So the merchant draws stay open to me and the referral draw does not.
Notice the tension in the referral rules as well. Entries are capped at 10, while exclusion kicks in at 10 or more lifetime referrals. Sprive does not spell out which limit bites first, and I am reporting that rather than guessing at it.
The practical effect is odd but clear. Succeed too well at referring people and the weekly draw quietly stops being available to you.
Prizes go to your lender, not your pocket
This point catches people out, so it deserves its own heading. Prize money lands in your Sprive account, and from there it can only go to your mortgage lender. As the terms put it, prizes "can only be paid to your lender and can't be withdrawn to use as cash".
Winning £2,000 therefore knocks £2,000 off your mortgage balance. That is real money and it compounds nicely. Even so, it is not spending money, and you should not enter expecting cash.
The one partial exception sits in the second draw. If Sprive cannot make the mortgage payment, it pays the same value to your linked bank account instead, still capped at £5,000.
The adidas terms offer no such fallback. That £5,000 goes into the Sprive account and out to the lender, and Sprive says it will contact the winner first to make sure their Sprive balance is at zero so the credit can land.
On safety, money sitting in the Sprive wallet is held by PrePay Technologies Limited (FRN 900010) and is safeguarded rather than FSCS protected. There is more on that distinction in my guide to whether Sprive is safe.
Where Sprive's own site contradicts itself
Two small inconsistencies turned up during checking, and both were still there on 2 September 2026.
The FAQ names 16 lenders, from Nationwide and Halifax through to Leeds Building Society. Yet the download prompt on the same page says Sprive "supports 14 of the largest lenders". Count them yourself and you get 16.
Similarly, the site footer and terms name both Connect IFA Ltd and New Leaf Distribution Limited as principals, while the FAQ answer names only Connect IFA. I use the footer version, since it is the fuller one.
Who this suits, and who it does not
Anyone already using Sprive and naturally recommending it will find the referral draw a decent bonus. By comparison, anyone chasing the £2,000 Sprive prize draw headline will probably be disappointed.
New users have the better deal, frankly. One shop buys one entry into a draw for a full mortgage payment, and that requires no referring at all.
The adidas draw sits somewhere in between, and it closes on 30 September. If you were buying kit anyway, the entries cost nothing extra. Everyone else would be spending at least £50 purely to enter, which rather defeats the point of an overpayment app.
Above all, treat overpaying as the point and the draw as the garnish. Before overpaying anything, Sprive's own FAQ makes the sensible case: "Before you start overpaying on your mortgage, it's important you have sufficient emergency funds and check that you have paid off more expensive debts first."
Also check your lender's annual allowance first. MoneyHelper notes that many lenders permit overpayments of up to 10% a year without penalty, and going over that can trigger an early repayment charge. My guide to Sprive overpayment rules covers the detail, and the wider picture sits in my full Sprive review.
Sprive prize draw FAQs
Is the Sprive prize draw real?
Yes. Sprive publishes dated terms for all three live draws on sprive.com, and the referral draw states that everyone who enters wins something. That said, most winnings are small, and none of it comes to you as cash.
How do you enter the Sprive prize draw?
For the referral draw, invite a friend with your code from the "Earn prizes" screen. Your entry lands once that friend completes their first shop in the app. For the next mortgage payment draw, you simply download Sprive as a new user and do one shop.
Does everyone really win something?
In the referral draw, yes. Once the £2,000, £250 and £100 prizes go out, everyone else receives £5 per referral. So three referrals returns £15.
How does the Sprive adidas £5,000 draw work?
Buy adidas gift cards through the Sprive app during September 2026. Each transaction of £5 or more earns one entry, up to ten entries in total. Shopping at adidas directly does not count. One winner receives £5,000 credited to their Sprive account for their mortgage, drawn on 1 October 2026.
How does the Sprive Just Eat £10,000 draw work?
It no longer runs. The campaign closed at 23:59 on 31 August 2026 and the winner was drawn on 1 September. While it was live, each Just Eat gift card bought through the Sprive app for £5 or more earned one entry, up to ten, and one winner received £10,000 credited to their Sprive account.
Can you withdraw Sprive prize money as cash?
No. Prize money lands in your Sprive account, and from there it can only go to your mortgage lender. Shopping rewards work the same way, although you can still withdraw money you autosave yourself.
What is a Sprive Ambassador?
Someone with 10 or more total referrals since joining. Ambassadors move to a separate referral programme, so they lose access to the referral prize draw. The merchant draws, such as the adidas one, do not exclude them.
Is Sprive safe to use?
Sprive Limited is an appointed representative rather than a directly authorised firm. PrePay safeguards the wallet money rather than the FSCS protecting it. I go through the detail in my guide to whether Sprive is safe.
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Terms, prizes and campaign dates change without notice, so always check the current terms on sprive.com before entering. Nothing here is financial advice, and you should consider speaking to a qualified mortgage adviser about your own circumstances. Sprive Limited (Financial Services Register number 919863) is an appointed representative of Connect IFA Ltd (FRN 441505) and New Leaf Distribution Limited (FRN 460421), not a directly authorised firm. CoolCuration is not authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority. This article contains affiliate or referral links. If you click through and sign up I may earn a commission or referral bonus at no extra cost to you. It does not affect my editorial view. Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage.
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