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Articles tagged with: Safer Gambling Week
We are on a mission to raise the profile of safer gambling Partner content
Culture
By Betting and Gaming Council
We are on a mission to raise the profile of safer gambling
Betting and gaming is enjoyed by around 22.5 million people in the UK each month and with the launch of this year’s Safer Gambling Week we are on a mission to further strengthen awareness about safer gambling.
Safer gambling week works, attacking it defies logic Partner content
Health
By Betting and Gaming Council
Safer gambling week works, attacking it defies logic
Safer Gambling Week 2023 was clearly another fantastic success. While it takes time to fully understand the impact of each campaign, the early results make clear our industry went further than ever to promote the tools which help people control their play, while ensuring more people than ever saw signposting to the advice and support available to those who may be struggling. In short, Safer Gambling Week works.
BETTING AND GAMING INDUSTRY UNITES AGAIN FOR SAFER GAMBLING WEEK 2023 Partner content
Health
By Betting and Gaming Council
BETTING AND GAMING INDUSTRY UNITES AGAIN FOR SAFER GAMBLING WEEK 2023
The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) is delighted to support this year's Safer Gambling Week, which will build on the record breaking success of last year’s event.
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Health
By Betting and Gaming Council
SAFER GAMBLING WEEK SPARKS HUGE INCREASE IN SAFER GAMBLING TOOLS USE
The number of punters using safer gambling tools rocketed thanks to Safer Gambling Week, new figures released today show.
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Health
By Betting and Gaming Council
INDUSTRY, GOVERNMENT AND THE REGULATOR COME TOGETHER TO BACK SAFER GAMBLING WEEK
This year’s Safer Gambling Week event will run from today until Sunday 23rd October and will see the whole industry coming together in a concerted effort to raise awareness of safer gambling, the tools that are available to help and sources of further advice and support.
How can anyone be against safer gambling? Partner content
Education
By Betting and Gaming Council
How can anyone be against safer gambling?
This week is Safer Gambling Week when we come together to promote better education and awareness, encourage even more people to use safer gambling tools like deposit limits and time-outs, and crucially when we signpost the advice, support and help that’s available to anyone who may be struggling. From betting shops to bingo clubs, casinos and online operators, and for the first-time betting operators in Ireland and across Europe too, it is an incredible show of unity to promote safe betting and gaming.
Betting and Gaming Industry unites to announce Safer Gambling Week 2022 and pledge to build on last year's record-breaking success Partner content
Social affairs
By Betting and Gaming Council
Betting and Gaming Industry unites to announce Safer Gambling Week 2022 and pledge to build on last year's record-breaking success
This year’s Safer Gambling Week event will run from 17th – 23rd October 2022 and will see the whole industry coming together in a concerted effort to further promote safer gambling messages, the tools available to customers to stay in control and the help and support available to those who champion higher standards.
The Government should treat betting like booze - not like tobacco Partner content
Health
By Betting and Gaming Council
The Government should treat betting like booze - not like tobacco
After more than a year of waiting for the outcome of the Gambling Review, and with the Government changing its ministers more times than Watford change football managers, it strikes me that the debate has boiled down to this: should betting be treated like tobacco, which is inherently and universally damaging to all, or should it be treated more like alcohol, something millions of people do and where the vast majority are able to enjoy it responsibly, but where sadly a small minority can have a problem and, in the most extreme and terrible cases, it can be an addiction?
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Health
By Betting and Gaming Council
Safer Gambling Week 2021 hailed ‘huge success’ as new figures confirm Record-Breaking Campaign
Safer Gambling Week 2021 has been described as a “huge success” after it emerged this year’s campaign had broken all previous records.
Rates of problem gambling are falling, but on the BGC's second anniversary, our commitment to safer gambling is stronger than ever Partner content
Health
By Betting and Gaming Council
Rates of problem gambling are falling, but on the BGC's second anniversary, our commitment to safer gambling is stronger than ever
It’s entirely fitting that the Betting and Gaming Council’s second anniversary should fall during this year’s Safer Gambling Week.
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Health
By Betting and Gaming Council
Problem gambling rates are falling but safer gambling ‘our top priority all year round’, says BCG Boss at start of Safer Gambling Week
Safer gambling is the regulated betting and gaming industry’s “top priority all year round”, standards body boss Michael Dugher has declared.
This year’s political cringe event is here - the gambling industry’s Safer Gambling Week Partner content
Health
By Gambling With Lives
This year’s political cringe event is here - the gambling industry’s Safer Gambling Week
It’s time to cut through the gambling industry’s cynical and patronising PR and legislate for what people really need – a public health approach to the risks of gambling.
‘Take Time to Think’ is another step on our journey to keep customers safe and in control of their betting Partner content
Health
By Betting and Gaming Council
‘Take Time to Think’ is another step on our journey to keep customers safe and in control of their betting
Today the Betting and Gaming Council is launching a new campaign which is aimed at encouraging the 30 million people in Britain who enjoy a flutter to consider using the range of safer gambling tools at their disposal.
Advertising may be annoying, yet all the evidence shows gambling advertising does not equal harm - but let’s keep driving change and raising standards Partner content
Education
By Betting and Gaming Council
Advertising may be annoying, yet all the evidence shows gambling advertising does not equal harm - but let’s keep driving change and raising standards
When I asked a team of pollsters and focus groups specialists, who’d been going round the country recently, what people thought of advertising, the reply from one veteran top political numbers man was: “They just find it annoying”. I then followed up and said: “Gambling advertising in particular?” He replied: “No. All advertising”.
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Communities
By Betting and Gaming Council
BGC Chairman Brigid Simmonds Comments on Appointment of New Gambling Commission Chair
The BGC’s drive to promote safer gambling has produced tangible results, but we are determined to go further Partner content
Education
By Betting and Gaming Council
The BGC’s drive to promote safer gambling has produced tangible results, but we are determined to go further
When the Betting and Gaming Council was established towards the end of 2019, we were clear that, as well as representing the regulated industry, we were a standards body with a clear mission to promote safer gambling.
Evidence from abroad shows the unregulated black market will benefit unless we get the gambling review right Partner content
Health
By Betting and Gaming Council
Evidence from abroad shows the unregulated black market will benefit unless we get the gambling review right
In the final debate in the House of Commons before the summer recess, the Minister heading the Government’s Review of Gambling, John Whittingdale, told MPs: “It is very important that we create a safe space where people are given protection if they are gambling online, but we do not want to drive them away from the regulated sector and into the black market. That is certainly something that we will bear in mind during our consideration of these things”.
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By Betting and Gaming Council
Betting and gaming industry unites once again for Safer Gambling Week 2021
The regulated betting and gaming industry is joining forces once again for Safer Gambling Week 2021.