News & Blog
Chief Executive Officer – GLEN
Posted 23/09/2026 Gambling Lived Experience Network (GLEN) are currently looking to recruit a permanent CEO. This is a full-time role, circa £75k per annum, and will be remote/flexibly based with UK-wide travel as required. The new CEO will join GLEN at a pivotal time for the charity. Changes to how Gambling Harms are both publicly...Continue reading→
Public Health Wales VCSE Prevention Funding
Public Health Wales held a webinar on Wednesday Morning (12th August 2026) detailing the Welsh Government’s own approach to using £1.4m of Levy funds to support VCSE prevention activities in Wales over the next two years. The webinar was to inform organisations who may wish to apply for funding to deliver Gambling Harm Prevention activity...Continue reading→
New Gambling Minister???
We have been aware of very strong rumour that Vicki Foxcroft has now replaced Baroness Twycross as the Minister for Gambling (not the official title). We say “rumour” as despite it being widely reported by gambling industry insiders, including the Betting and Gaming Council (and who wouldn’t believe them??), it has not so far been...Continue reading→
Burnham to repeal “Aim to Permit”
PM Andy Burnham has announced that as part of his move to address social decay in town centers he is aiming to give local authorities greater powers to refuse licenses to new gambling premises. What is actually being talked about here is removing the “aim to permit” which sits within the Licensing conditions attached to...Continue reading→
GambleAware enters Managed Closedown
GLEN are releasing the following statement following the public announcement last week that GambleAware are now in managed closedown, expected to be completed by end of March 2026. Our Statement It is with considerable sadness that we find ourselves acknowledging that the largest single charity operating in the Gambling Harms sector is closing down, and...Continue reading→
NGSN London Gambling Harms Conference
Tuesday 10th June 9.30am-3.30pm The London Board of the National Gambling Support Network are hosting an in-person conference looking at gambling harms and presenting the work of NGSN partner organisations operating in London. The event takes place at Resource for London (Holloway Road), and will feature presentations from London based service providers, a Lived Experience...Continue reading→
Man Hug Podcast
Have you ever fancied a Man Hug? Well this is a good chance to get one. The Man Hug is a monthly podcast covering various issues impacted Men’s Mental Health The latest episode (#28) is talking about Harmful Gambling and features GLEN (Gambling Lived Experience Network)’s own David Quinti speaking alongside Lauren Campbell from Beacon...Continue reading→
Public Policy Exchange Webinar
GLEN’s Operations co-leads are presenting at this Thursday’s Public Policy Exchange webinar – The Future of Gambling in Great Britain They will be talking about the rules and regulations around advertising and marketing of gambling products to children and young people. Specifically about the over reliance on self-regulation, how the gambling industry openly flaunts its...Continue reading→
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→
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→