Funded Projects
The Community Investment Programme for Preventing and Reducing Gambling Harms in Great Britain
Discover the Funded Projects
Explore the seven projects funded through the Network to Reduce Gambling Harms’ Community Investment Programme.
Each project plays an important role in preventing and reducing gambling harms and supporting communities across Great Britain. We look forward to following their progress and sharing the positive impact they make.
Grants are awarded through an open, competitive process that includes anonymous peer review and assessment by an independent adjudication committee. This ensures funded projects is demonstrate strong evidence, clear relevance, and meaningful potential for impact.
The Community Investment Programme is delivered by Greo Evidence Insights as part of the Network to Reduce Gambling Harms.
Read on to learn more about each project and their plans to tackle gambling harms.
Broader Impact Grants
Broader Impact Grants support collaborative projects between multiple organisations to create long-term, wide-reaching change in gambling harm prevention and support, especially in underserved communities.
Recover with Pride: LGBTQ+ Gambling Harm Support
Brighton and Hove LGBT Switchboard, Reframe Coaching, University of Brighton
Funding will support the delivery of the UK’s first trauma-informed, LGBTQ+-led gambling harm prevention and recovery service, designed by and for LGBTQ+ people. Through 1:1 recovery coaching, online peer support programmes, community outreach, and awareness campaigns, this project aims to create safe, identity-affirming recovery spaces, and reduce gambling stigma within LGBTQ+ communities.
North Central London Gambling Harms Reduction Alliance
Mind in Haringey, Thrive LDN, Barnet Council, Camden Council, Enfield Council, Haringey Council, Islington Council, Progress Health Partnerships
Funding will support the establishment of a coordinated, cross-borough approach to preventing and reducing gambling harms. The project will build capacity within local services for early identification and respond to the commercial determinants of harm. Public awareness campaigns will collaboratively highlight the impact of harmful gambling products and industry practices while activating real support options, in real time, for those affected.
Local Impact Grants
Local Impact Grants support individual or collaborative projects that create meaningful, community-level change in gambling harm prevention, education, and support across Great Britain.
Domestic Abuse and Gambling Harms: Exploring Referral Pathways
Money Advice Plus, Thrivin’ Together, RISE, All Things Economic Abuse
Funding will enable the expansion of a tested cross-sector support and referral pathway between domestic abuse, gambling harm, and debt advice services. This project aims to develop practice guidance for gambling services on responding to domestic abuse and create a bespoke training programme for professionals, including quality standards for those supporting victim-survivors.
Preventing Gambling Harm with Vulnerable Customers: An Ageing Population
Community Care Gaming, White Specs Ltd.
Funding will support the creation, delivery, and evaluation of a gambling harm prevention programme for people aged 50 years and over in Greater London and Southeast England. This programme will use a train-the-trainer model to deliver workshops to staff working with the target demographic in community organisations, including residents’ associations, care homes, faith groups, and local and national charities, enabling them to then train others in their community.
Rising Above the Gambling Storm: Integrated Support for Women Affected Others
Funding will be used to create a structured, 12-week therapeutic group programme for women affected by someone else's gambling. Facilitated by qualified therapists with lived experience as affected others, the programme will include four cohorts and will offer weekly group sessions as well as ongoing post-programme support through a private, moderated online forum, a peer support group, an on-demand resource library, and monthly workshops.
Youth-Led Gambling Harms Prevention and Support Programme
Funding will be used to sustain and strengthen Coram’s Fields’ youth-led, community-embedded gambling harm prevention work for young people aged 11–21. The project will deliver peer-led workshops, youth voice and employment opportunities, outreach activity, one-to-one support, and youth-informed digital content to raise awareness, reduce stigma and improve access to support, embedding prevention within trusted community-based youth services.
Establishing a Greater Lincolnshire Combined Authority (GLCA) Gambling-Related Suicide Support and Learning Pathway
Gambling with Lives, Lincolnshire Local Authority
Funding will help support the establishment of a countywide support and learning pathway to capture insights from suspected gambling related suicides. The project aims to build capacity within coroner teams, police forces and wider support services to recognise gambling as a risk factor in suicides and signpost families for support. The pathway will also seek to ensure insights and learning from deaths inform and strengthen upstream gambling-harm and suicide prevention initiatives.