GLEN are currently recruiting new Trustees to join our current charity board. As an registered charity (CIO) we strive to be an independent voice raising awareness of and offering support to people affected by gambling related harms. Our ambition is for the network to be able to make a real difference to people’s lives, with...Continue reading
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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
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
White Paper Response – February 2024
After holding a series of open meetings with our members and the wider Gambling Harms Community on the issues of Player-led Tools and Customer Incentives we have collated the evidence and important views which you wanted heard and have now submitted GLEN’s formal response to the UK Gambling Commission. The full submission is available for...Continue reading