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Gambling and Crime in the Spotlight
Gambling, Crime and Greed – Looking beyond the Public Glare Today the UK Gambling Commission released the names of 15 individuals who they have charged with offences relating to breaches of the Gambling Act 2005 due to bets they made on the date of the 2024 General Election. The allegation being that these people placed... Continue reading→
Lived Experience Research Hub – Allowing LE individuals to participate in research
The Academic Forum for the Study of Gambling (AFSG) have launched a new website which will allow individuals with Lived and Living Experience of Gambling Harms to match with research and participation opportunities around developing better understanding of gambling as a source of harm. The Lived Experience Research Hub will allow academics and researchers to... Continue reading→
Petition to prevent UK Politicians receiving Donations and Hospitality from Gambling Operators
The Gambling Industry makes and turns over a lot of money in the UK. Each year over £14 BILLION pounds permanently leaves the pockets of UK residents and ends up in the bank accounts of the gambling industry. Let’s just write that number out in long hand. A net wealth transfer of over £14,000,000,000.00 each... Continue reading→
The Grand National – Talking to your children about the emotions of Gambling
This Saturday sees the latest running of the Grand National, an iconic horse race and also an event which holds a special place the the hearts and memories of many families. Many of us, perhaps even most of us, will have fond memories of gathering around the TV as a family to watch the race,... Continue reading→
Is Watching Live Sports enjoyable after Addiction?
Someone asked me the other day whether I still enjoy watching sports. The background context to this being that I am now eight years into recovery from an intense gambling addiction which was almost entirely based around betting on sports. It was a good question, as it gave me a reason to objectively explore my... Continue reading→
Coming Soon – Gambling Recovery BLOG-ic
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→
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→
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→
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→