Have your say on anything Gambling Recovery related. From next week – 17th March – we will be posting contributor’s blogs on a wide range of topics around recovery from gambling harms. We truly believe the power of Lived Experience is in the lessons it teaches us about ourselves, our resilience, and about how we...Continue reading
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University of Wolverhampton – Gambling Peer Support Research
Posted 11/03/2025 The University of Wolverhampton are currently looking for volunteers to assist in their research project looking at how people access and use online peer support when suffering harms from gambling. Researchers from the School of Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton, Magenta Research, and Liverpool John Moores University are looking to conduct interviews...Continue reading
Stigma Campaign – Involvement Opportunity
GambleAware are launching a third phase of their Stigma Campaign highlighting the impacts which those impacted by Harmful Gambling often face in terms of feeling able to speak openly and seek support around gambling. You may have seen the orange themed adverts over the past 18 months, being the only national TV advertising campaign in...Continue reading
Supplementary White Paper Consultation on Deposit Limits
The Gambling Commission has today released a supplementary consultation around Deposit Limits linked to the Gambling Act White Paper. While today’s consultation may not be as fundamentally as significant as consultations around other aspects of Player Led Controls – where we strongly ask that setting deposit limits becomes a mandatory requirement before allowing any person...Continue reading
Psychology Research Project – How People Experience Safety following Gambling Harms
Posted 28/02/2025 Sarah, a Trainee Clinical Psychologist at Lancaster University, is seeking volunteers to assist her training project. She is conducting a research project on how people who have been harmed by gambling and complex trauma experience safety. Specifically, around gaining a deeper understanding of how feelings of safety are experienced, developed and maintained throughout...Continue reading
OHID appointed Levy Prevention Commissioner
GLEN’s response to announcement of OHID being appointed Prevention Commissioners for Statutory Levy Funding. We welcome the long awaited announcement by Fiona Twycross (Baroness Twycross) and Stephanie Peacock MP regarding the appointment of a Commissioner for Prevention within the new Statutory Levy framework. Of all the areas covered by the new RPT commissioning structure we...Continue reading
Money and Mental Health – Gambling Harms Action Lab Briefing
GLEN will be hosting a presentation by the Money and Mental Health Police Institute (MSE Martin Lewis’ charity) to explain the important work which they are doing around involving Banks and other Financial institutes in developing new and better ways of helping detect and prevent customers from experiencing harms caused through gambling. The presentation will...Continue reading
Understanding Gambling Webinar: Family, Loved Ones and Affected Others
With an estimated 7 million people in the UK being impacted by another person’s harmful gambling behaviours we are hosting a half-day webinar designed to bring greater understanding to this important but often unseen issue. Please join us on February 6th to hear from a range of speakers, each bringing their own insight into what...Continue reading
University of Plymouth – GHSI Workshop
Posted 01/02/2025 Closing Date: 20/01/2025 GLEN are assisting the University of Plymouth in a research project aiming to develop a new form of Gambling Harms Severity Index as a replacement for the current PGSI tool. The hope is to develop a tool which is far more accurate and relatable to the real life experiences of...
Video skilled the recovery star
Following on from our (we like to think) successful webinar looking at Gambling and Neurodiversity which happened on 19th July we have now revived our YouTube channel and put excerpts from the webinar online for anyone to watch. We have already had members commenting on how useful (and enlightening) they found some of the material,...Continue reading