GAMBLEAWARE

Registered charity 1093910 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RESPONSIBILITY IN GAMBLING TRUST, RESPONSIBLE GAMBLING TRUST, THE GREAT FOUNDATION · also registered in Scotland as SC049433 (OSCR)

GambleAware is an independent charity tasked to fund research, education and treatment services to help to reduce gambling-related harms in Great Britain. The charity's strategic aim is to broaden public understanding of gambling-related harms and to advance the cause of harm prevention and to help those that do develop problems get the support that they need quickly and effectively.

Objects

1) The advancement of education aimed at preventing gambling harms for the benefit of the public in Great Britain, in particular young people and those who are most vulnerable, by carrying out research, by providing advice and information, and by raising awareness; and,2) Working to keep people in Great Britain safe from gambling harms through the application of a public health model based on three levels of prevention: primary— universal promotion of a safer environment; secondary — selective intervention for those who may be 'at risk'; and, tertiary — direct support for those directly or indirectly affected by gambling disorder, by carrying out research, by providing advice and information, by raising awareness, and by commissioning the provision of effective treatment, interventions and support.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £19.4m for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total net assets decreasing to £44.8m. Per the trustees' report, the charity has resolved to work towards a managed closure by 31 March 2026, and the financial statements have been prepared on a basis other than going concern to reflect this plan.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → not a going concern (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram (3,451 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/05/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Paul Boucherchair
• Dr Koravangattu Valsraj · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marina Avgi Gibbs
• Paul Fraser Simpson
• Rachel Pearce · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Rt. Hon. Sir Alan Moses · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Gambling Harm UK.

• Gambling Harm UK income £186k
• GAMFAM income £235k
• GAMCARE income £19.9m
• GAMBLING WITH LIVES income £630k
• THE DRINKAWARE TRUST income £6.2m
• BETKNOWMORE UK income £2.6m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.