GamLEARN is a charity built on lived experience
We work to reduce gambling-related harm by supporting individuals, influencing change, and amplifying the voices of those directly affected. Through partnerships with researchers, focus groups with our members, and guidance from our advisory panel, we ensure lived experience shapes everything we do.
We deliver training to organisations such as the NHS, Public Health, Metropolitan Police and Probation Services to not only make them aware of the harms people from gambling addiction face, but how to support them. We support people within the criminal justice system and respond to local and national policy changes. Most importantly, we create spaces where lived experience is valued and recognised as a driving force for real change.
What we do
We are a lived experience focused charity that value how important it is to have our members being involved in the work we do. Our members shapes and moulds our values as a service.
Courses
We provide opportunities to obtain learning and accredited training through courses developed and delivered by lived experience.
Research
We work within the research sectors and closely with academics who want to have meaningful engagement with Lived Experience.
Criminal Justice Support
We offer a support service for individuals facing the Criminal Justice System: a wrap around service that is tailored to what you need.
Meet Ups
A weekly online meet-up with our members: a safe place, to share, to connect and to talk. Information is sent out via our Newsletter.
Latest News
Illusion of Joy: How Gambling Impacts Individual Happiness
For most people, happiness is defined by healthy relationships with family, good health, a thriving career, and overall peace of mind. In some cases, blissfulness is determined by how they spend their leisure time. However, others fall into the pitfall of gambling...
Suicide and Gambling: A Growing Mental Health Emergency
The rise in suicides linked to gambling has been a growing mental health emergency in the UK. While gambling is widely marketed as a harmless form of entertainment, it is unfortunate that many individuals suffer from devastating psychological and financial...
The Gambling-Stigma Cycle: Why It Prevents Recovery
There has been an increased awareness of gambling problems and their devastating impact on individuals, families, and communities in recent years. However, despite the recognition of gambling harm, many people continue to struggle in silence due to an...
Our Partners
GamLEARN would like to acknowledge our members who have been selfless in their time and efforts to our cause and our partners who have shown how much they value the voices of Lived Experience. GamLEARN is about our members, collectively and individually, helping raise awareness of gambling harm, developing new ideas for what we should do as a charity. Without our members, there is no GamLEARN. We are an ever-growing network of people with lived experience doing amazing and inspiring work every single day. We want to give our members opportunities to learn, develop, engage, and be part of something where everyone feels connected.
If you would like to be a member or partner, please get in touch info@gamlearn.org.uk
