A mum-of-five who won £1m on the lottery has said she still bargain shops.

Ceri Roberts and her husband Paul bought their “aspiration home” in Llanberis, Gwynedd, which she now runs as a guest house, after winning the EuroMillions Millionaire Maker draw.

The former nurse said winning the money in November 2023 was “life-changing” for her household, who no longer worried about reaching “the complete of the month when all the direct debits and bills leave out”.

But, she added: “I still don’t leave shopping to one place if I recognize it’s cheaper somewhere else. I don’t ponder that will ever transformation.”

Ms Roberts is one of 408 people in Wales who have won £1m or more on the National Lottery since its launch in November 1994.

She and her husband Paul rang the claims line while they watched one of their children play football.

“Nobody had scored a objective but our car was shaking,” she said.

“The kids were in the back wailing and me and my husband were crying in the front.”

Having the money in the financial institution was a “surreal” encounter and she said she could not bring herself to spend any of it for six weeks.

Then she bought herself a car.

“I didn’t own a car at that period, I was borrowing one,” she said.

Ms Roberts quit her job as the manager of a domiciliary worry business and said she now has period to spend with her household.

She said the household wanted to “make memories together” and visited Marrakesh in Morocco in February where they went quad biking in the desert.

However, she said her children have not had more than they normally would for Christmas and birthdays.

“To be able to provide them memories is far more significant than buying them large, extravagant gifts,” she added.

In the 30 years since the lottery began, “excellent causes” in Wales have received £2.3bn from ticket sales.

One of them is SHIFT Together, a not-for-gain business that offers free mental health back to people in the Rhondda valley.

It was set up three years ago by therapist Caroline Shanks from Treorchy.

When she moved to the area she set up a mental health back throng after she “realised there was a real unmet require” in the area.

The money from the lottery’s throng capital has enabled it to expand the number of back groups in a variety of locations.

SHIFT Together now provides 10 back groups and an online service, as well as art therapy and a expense of living cooking club.

Ms Shanks said: “It’s been amazing to have the capital, without it we wouldn’t have been able to do what we’re doing.”

The lottery’s previous operator Camelot faced criticism for making large increases in corporate profits without significantly increasing excellent causes capital.

In February, a recent operating business Allwyn took over, promising to double the amount of money allocated to excellent causes within a decade.

While the lottery is a form of gambling, a update from a committee of MPs suggested that it “poses significantly fewer gambling harms than many other forms of gambling”.

The UK government said research by Health Survey England found the issue gambling rate for draw-based games was lower than 1% and for scratch cards was 1.4%, compared to a range of 2.7% – 12.7% for other activities.

But it added that the growth of online play “presents risks” and “we must remain vigilant about this”.

Allwyn said it uses a “meticulous” procedure to design games which “ensures they are lower uncertainty” and puts “player safety first” with multiple online protections including “a tool that monitors patterns of play, identifies those at uncertainty, and intervenes in play where essential”.