{"id":399808,"date":"2026-01-31T01:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399808\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:53:08","slug":"ashford-woman-wins-kmfm-thousand-pound-friday-competition-for-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399808\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashford woman wins kmfm Thousand Pound Friday competition for January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A lucky kmfm listener has beaten the winter blues after winning \u00a31,000 thanks to kmfm\u2019s Thousand Pound Friday.<\/p>\n

The radio station’s monthly competition gives listeners 24 hours to enter via text and online to make a play for the prize.<\/p>\n

\"AA lucky kmfm listener won \u00a31,000 in the radio station’s long-running competition, Thousand Pound Friday<\/p>\n

Entries can be made between 6pm on Thursday and 6pm on Friday, when one Kent winner is chosen at random.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, Fiona McLennan, from Ashford<\/a>, received a call from Ben Pearce, from Getting You Home, who revealed she was this month\u2019s winner.<\/p>\n

She told kmfm she plans to spend it on having her car fixed, though she thinks her boyfriend Joe will suggest they spend it on a holiday.<\/p>\n

Listen to the moment<\/a> Fiona received the surprise call from presenter Ben Pearce.<\/p>\n

Rob and Numi from kmfm Breakfast announced the return of the station\u2019s competition for 2026 on Monday morning, following a successful month of cash giveaways with \u2018Pay My Bills\u2019, which gave listeners the chance to win their share of thousands of pounds to help cover post-Christmas costs.<\/p>\n

In 2025, Thousand Pound Friday awarded a total of \u00a313,000 to 13 listeners across Kent, with one lucky winner taking home \u00a31,000 on the final Friday of each month.<\/p>\n

Listeners won\u2019t have to wait long for another chance to win, with a brand-new competition, Crack the Code, launching next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lucky kmfm listener has beaten the winter blues after winning \u00a31,000 thanks to kmfm\u2019s Thousand Pound Friday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3859,96,192,191,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-399808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ashford","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-human-interest","11":"tag-kent","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}