As part of our commitment to supporting marginalised and minoritised communities, we have commissioned several large-scale programmes to explore the experience of gambling harms among specific groups. We have also commissioned a range of scoping studies to map existing knowledge and identify critical gaps in research about communities. For example, people who have experienced homelessness, criminalised communities and people with disabilities.
Our work is exploring the impact of gambling harms on children and young people, including the way gambling has become ‘normal’ in the digital age, the impact of influencer marketing on children, and how children from low-income areas or with special educational needs experience gambling harms.
These insights are helping us develop tailored support and interventions to reduce inequalities in gambling harm, by providing resources and support in communities that have been directly informed by our research.
Read our research on gambling harms as experienced by different communities, and what drives these harms.
of people who gamble are likely to experience gambling harms if they’re also from Minority groups, compared to 20% of White British people.
Here are some examples of the impact we’re making using this type of evidence and insights:
This aims to reduce inequalities relating to gambling harm for women and minority communities. This includes ethnic minority groups, religious minority groups and people who do not speak English as their first language.
We have gone on to commission research to better understand the experiences of groups including:
We advertise all our live funding opportunities on our website.
Read the latest on how gambling harms affect different communities within our society on our news page.
