The University of York is leading an innovative research programme called BETTER: Behaviour, Environment and Technology in Tiredness and Excessive Risk This research looks to examine the role which disturbed sleep plays in enhancing harm caused through gambling, and also the beneficial role healthy sleep can play in promoting sustained recovery after experiencing harm. The...Continue reading
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Webinar: Exploring Gambling Harms in UK Military Veterans
Military Veterans are over 7 times more likely than the general population to experience severe gambling related harms, such as addiction and Gambling Disorder. If you would like to know why, and how we can help those who have given their service for us but now need others to come to their aid then please...Continue reading
Framing the Role of Lived Experience in a new age of Commissioning
As the gambling harms sector transitions from RET into the Statutory Levy GLEN are hosting a webinar to look at the role which Lived Experience involvement will have. With October marking the half-way point in a Financial Year in which one commissioner leaves the stage and several others have taken over the mantle of funding...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
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
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
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