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Engagement between lower division football clubs and safer gambling organisations continues to increase, as a National League fixture on Tuesday was host to a number of charity delegates.  A range of groups were invited to attend the match at Chesterfield FC’s Technique Stadium, including GamCare and the Young Gamers and Gamblers Education Trust (YGAM)- represented by Head of Delivery Sam …

Flutter Entertainment has formed a partnership with Missing People in a strengthening of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, pledging to support the charity’s efforts to locate missing adults. The agreement, branded as the #TogetherforMissing partnership’ will see the FTSE100 gambling group leverage its range of brands and products in its backing of the organisation. This will include the utilisation …

The National Lottery Heritage Fund is one of several funds to provide an emergency grant of £107m to 925 cultural organisations at risk of closure because of the pandemic and winter periods. Administered by the NLHF as well as Arts Council England, British Film Institute and Historic England, the fund is intended to support regional theatres, local museums, independent cinemas throughout …

Entain Plc has secured membership of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for Europe for a fourth consecutive year following its annual review. Lauding the achievement as “further endorsing the group’s approach to ESG and sustainability,” Entain’s inclusion marks the only sports betting and gaming group within the DJSI – launched in 1999 – and has become the gold standard for corporate sustainability. …

GambleAware has recommissioned the Scottish Gambling Education Hub (SGEH) for a further three years. Run by Edinburgh-based youth wellbeing and education charity Fast Forward, the SGEH has delivered gambling harm and addiction awareness courses since 2018. Fast Forward will maintain its grant funding by GambleAware to support young people and adults o raise awareness of gambling harms across Scottish communities, …

Entain Plc has launched ‘EnTrain’, a new multi-million-pound CSR directive aimed at improving access to technology for underserved and underrepresented communities.  The FTSE100 gambling group’s new CSR directive aims to “positively impact the lives of over 1 million people around the world, either directly or through their families and dependents by 2030″. EnTrain is marked as the “first global strategic …

Anna van der Gaag (CBE), the Chair of the Advisory Board for Safer Gambling (ABSG), has stated that UK gambling requires urgency in developing evidence-led research to reduce gambling harms.  The University of Surrey Professor on Ethics and Regulation has led the UK Gambling Commission’s (UKGC) advisory on research, education and treatment (RET) since 2018. Writing an update for the …

EPIC Risk Management has appointed Les Murray as its new Managing Director, with responsibility for coordinating the group’s European and US-focused efforts as it goes through ‘a period of rapid expansion’. As Managing Director, Murray will work closely with Paul Buck, the CEO of the gambling harm reduction consultancy, to ‘maximise awareness’ of its education programmes and ‘thought leadership’ surrounding …

The Young Gamers and Gamblers Education Trust (YGAM) has announced a continuation of its partnership with Wolverhampton Wanderers FC focused on education and safeguarding.  As a result of the agreement, the partners will cooperate to deliver the aforementioned objectives in the Premier League team’s home West Midlands region.  In collaboration with GamCare, YGAM has trained Wolves and Wolves Foundation staff …

GamCare CEO Anna Hemmings has argued that the general public do not feel that the betting and gaming firms ‘are doing their part’ as the UK government moves forward with its review of the 2005 Gambling Act. Publishing a statement to mark Safer Gambling Week 2021, Hemmings detailed that in collaboration with YouGov the charity surveyed 1,510 people who gamble …