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Safer gambling

Help is free, confidential and open all night.

Gambling should stay entertainment with a fixed budget. If it stops feeling that way for you or someone close to you, these services are there around the clock and cost nothing.

National Gambling Helpline

0808 8020 133

Free, confidential, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, run by GamCare. For anyone affected by gambling, including family and friends. Translators are available on request. Wales: 0808 2819 265.

GamCare, including live chat

SENSE self-exclusion

The national self-exclusion scheme for every licensed land-based casino in Great Britain. Enrol online or with a manager at any casino; once enrolled you are excluded from all of them.

senseselfexclusion.com

BeGambleAware

Information, self-assessment tools and routes to treatment, including the NHS gambling clinics in England, Scotland and Wales.

BeGambleAware.org NHS gambling services

Gamblers Anonymous

Peer-support meetings across the UK, in person and online, plus GamAnon for families.

gamblersanonymous.org.uk

GAMSTOP

Free self-exclusion from every online gambling site and app licensed in Great Britain. Separate from SENSE, which covers casino premises.

gamstop.co.uk

In the venue

Casino staff are trained to talk about limits and breaks. Ask at reception about time-outs, spend limits on gaming machines and how to self-exclude on the spot. The Gambling Commission publishes the rules operators must follow.

gamblingcommission.gov.uk

Signs worth noticing

  • Spending more money or time than you decided to before you started.
  • Going back to try to recover what you lost.
  • Borrowing, selling things or hiding gambling from people close to you.
  • Gambling to change how you feel rather than for entertainment.
  • Arguments, missed work or sleep because of gambling.

None of these means you have to stop for good, but each is a reason to talk to someone. The helpline advisers are used to first calls.

What this site does and does not do

  • We describe licensed venues; we do not sell gambling, take bookings or run promotions.
  • We show no bonuses, no “free” anything, and no online casinos, licensed or not.
  • We do not use imagery or language aimed at under-18s, and we show no one who is or looks under 25 taking part in gambling.
  • We keep the helpline and self-exclusion links on every page, and we are happy to remove a listing at a venue’s request.

If you think anything here breaks those rules, please tell us.