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
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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
Talking Gambling and Neurodiversity
GLEN hosted a meeting on Monday 27th May entitled “Talking Gambling and ADHD/ND” as part of our plans this year to explore the links and connections which exist between gambling and neurodivergent conditions. This was an exploratory first meeting which offered a platform for individuals with joint experience of gambling harms and also neurodiversity to...Continue reading
A Grand Day for Teaching our Children
Today was Grand National day in the UK. Just about every major Western country has some version of Grand National Day – witness Kentucky Derby day or Melbourne Cup day. A day where people not normally interested in horseracing or betting are encouraged to be so by coming together to collectively watch the revival of...Continue reading
Neurodiversity in focus
There was a very interesting discussion on BBC Newsnight last night around #Neurodiversity following the Nuffield Trust‘s publishing of figures showing marked increases in waits for #autism assessment and prescriptions of #ADHD medication. One of the guests discussing these findings was Pippa Simou, a Psychologist and specialist ADHD Coach, who drew upon her own experience of being someone seeking support and recognition...Continue reading
Open Network Meeting – Report
GLEN held an Open Network Meeting on Wednesday 27th March at which we discussed the network, our origins and purpose, our plans for 2024, and talked about our intention of recruiting LE individuals to join our reformed Development Panel to help deliver on some of our upcoming work as part of project teams, and also...Continue reading
Debt and Gambling Harm – Changing the Legacy
The UK debt support charity StepChange is promoting this week (March 18-24th) as National Debt Awareness week, which seems to make it as good a time as any to talk about Debt and Gambling Harms. When one think of harms caused through disordered and addictive gambling perhaps the one which comes most readily to mind...Continue reading
Making this Mother’s Day a truly Happy one
Just two days after International Women’s Day comes Mother’s Day – also known as Mothering Sunday. For #IWD24 we wrote about the fact that the risk that harmful gambling poses to women is greatly under appreciated – including harms derived from another’s gambling behaviours – and we flagged some of the amazing women only treatment...Continue reading