Publication library

This synthesis report compiles key insights and learnings from GambleAware’s stigma reduction marketing campaign, summarising the strategies implemented, and impact achieved over time. It also offers recommendations to guide future behaviour change campaigns aiming to reduce gambling harm.

The GambleAware MLS funding programme aimed to strengthen multi-agency working across nine regional boards in England, Scotland and Wales to build a more integrated support system for gambling-related harms (GRH). The nine case studies in this report are intended to highlight creative and transformative practice within each local area.

These reports and resources present the findings of research conducted within the LGBTQ+ community to understand the gambling behaviour and harms experienced by the community, along with their demand for advice, support and treatment. They look to explore links between gambling behaviour and other factors such as sense of community, discrimination and abuse, mental health, and other potentially harmful behaviours such as smoking, alcohol use or taking drugs.

This gambling harms inequalities framework aims to collate and synthesise information, predominantly from GambleAware funded research, on inequalities in gambling harm to understand the underlying causes or specific drivers of gambling harms. Importantly, this framework demonstrates how different factors intersect to show the numerous and broader impacts of gambling harm.

This report is an executive summary for the gambling harms inequalities framework, which aims to collate and synthesise information, predominantly from GambleAware funded research, on inequalities in gambling harm to understand the underlying causes or specific drivers of gambling harms. Importantly, this framework demonstrates how different factors intersect to show the numerous and broader impacts of gambling harm.

This report explores how people who experience gambling harms are affected by stigma and discrimination. Drawing on new survey data, the study examines public attitudes, internalised stigma, and how stigma impacts different demographic groups. It also looks at how stigma may shape access to treatment and support services, and its links with health and wellbeing.

People affected by gambling harms often face stigma and discrimination, which can increase their psychological distress and discourage them from seeking help. This research programme explored how stigma affects people experiencing gambling harms, identified groups most impacted, and developed recommendations to reduce stigma and its harmful effects.

This report presents a critical discourse analysis examining how people who experience gambling harms are portrayed in contemporary British media, politics, and public discourse.

This report explores how people in Great Britain who experience gambling-related harms are affected by stigma and discrimination.

This report explores the gap between the people experiencing harm from gambling and those able to access formal support. The role of digital interventions is considered in the context of their ability to reach individuals who may otherwise be unable or unwilling to access formal treatment, with a particular focus on the new GambleAware Support Tool app.