Safer Gambling Week is a cross-industry initiative to promote safer gambling in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It takes place from 17th to 23rd November 2025.
This annual event aims to stimulate conversations around safer gambling and drive awareness of:
How to approach gambling more safely – questions to ask and behaviours to consider
The tools that are available to help you gamble more safely all year round
Sources of further advice and support
It sees the whole of the UK and Irish licensed gambling industry – bookmakers, amusement arcades, bingo clubs, bookmakers, casinos and online gaming operators – come together with the support of gambling charities, youth associations, and other interested parties to get everyone talking about safer gambling and raise awareness of where further information is available for those who need it.
The objective is to stimulate nation-wide conversations about safer gambling, giving people the information they need to gamble more safely, as well as directing those who need further advice and support to the right point of contact.
While the campaign focuses on a week of events, promotion and training, the commitment to safer gambling is all year round. It happens all day, every day with a wide range of safer gambling apps, tools, initiatives and campaigns from operators, sector groups, interest groups and charities.
Bingo is a unique part of the gambling industry. It is at the ‘soft end‘ of the gambling spectrum and is firmly rooted in the social fabric of the communities it serves up and down the country.
Importantly, the bingo industry is committed to supporting and helping customers who may from time-to-time experience difficulties managing their gambling in licensed bingo premises.
To assist customers, the licensed bingo industry offers a voluntary scheme that enables them to request a self-exclusion from land-based licensed bingo premises across Great Britain.
Remember:
1) It’s good to set yourself limits.
2) Gambling is not a way to make money.
3) It’s good to take a break.
4) Friends and family are more important than gambling.
