News & Blog
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→
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→