But David Strudley, from the Acorns Children's Hospice said it own lottery generates more money.
The Acorns Children's Hospice in Worcester runs its own lottery and fears sales will be affected.
Acorns runs its lottery in conjunction with St Richard's Hospice in Worcester which receives half the proceeds.
The Acorns Children's Hospice, based in Worcester, Walsall in the West Midlands and Birmingham, helps children with life-limiting conditions.
"The purpose of Acorns is to help these children and families who can't afford to wait, " Mr Strudley said.
While the pigs feed on acorns, the geese pick up their leftovers, plus the figs and lupins dotted around.
Acorns plans to increase that, partly by creating a new service that would see staff providing care in families' homes.
Acorns Children's Hospice, which has bases in Walsall, Selly Oak and Worcester, said it also planned to create up to 140 jobs.
Rachel Davies is Nursery Manager at Little Acorns Day Nursery in Ealing.
For a couple of weeks, the hogs are given access to a multicourse feast of acorns, cherries or walnuts, depending on the season.
Pigs thrived there, gorging on acorns for months prior to slaughter.
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The pigs are smallish, curious mottled animals, which range freely over the mountain, feeding on the acorns from the cork and holm oaks that flourish in the parched soil.
Where I live, in the U.K., American gray squirrels are exterminating native red squirrels with the help of a parapox virus and a better ability to digest acorns.
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One possibility is that a truly mighty oak sprang up virtually overnight from relatively tiny annual acorns because of the unprecedented prescience of every one of Romney's investment choices.
Tall oaks from little acorns grow, the saying goes.
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From tiny investment acorns can considerable trees grow.
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This was not the case, but Wadsworth indulged this indulgence of him and smiled as the boy turned cartwheels, stole up behind the cook while she bent to the bake oven, or played a guessing game with acorns hidden in his fists.
The ancient oaks that line the course still drop acorns on the carefully tended tarmac, while up on the decks of the Paddock Club, men and women in Armani clink Champagne glasses while wearing earplugs against the engines' high-pitched buzz and the constant roar of the tifosi.
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