Gambling Harm UK

Registered charity 1196538 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Gambling Education Network, TALKGEN, TALKGEN CIC, TALKGEN CIO

Gambling Harm UK (www.gamblingharm.com) is a national charity that utilises lived experience of gambling-harm to help guide impactful and meaningful gambling-harm prevention strategies across research, education, and treatment (RET).

Objects

‘THE RELIEF OF THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED AS A RESULT OF A GAMBLING ADDICTION OR GAMBLING RELATED HARM AND THEIR FAMILIES THROUGH:A) IMPROVING AND PROVIDING EDUCATION TOWARDS MATTERS RELATING TO GAMBLING HARM AND ADDICTIONS BY USING AN EVIDENCE BASED PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH, WITH A FOCUS ON DISCUSSIONS ON RECOVERY OF THOSE SUFFERING HARM;B) IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF THOSE SUFFERING FROM GAMBLING HARM BY PROMOTING ADDICTION RECOVERY, THE MITIGATION OF HARM, AND PREVENTING HARM IN THE FIRST PLACE THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT AND DISSEMINATION OF INSIGHTS, ADVICE AND SUPPORT;C) BY ENGAGING WITH AND/OR CONDUCTING EVIDENCE-BASED RESEARCH THAT HELPS TO FURTHER UNDERSTAND GAMBLING HARM AND ADDICTIONS.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £101,683 for the year ended 30 November 2025, with total income rising to £185,970. Free reserves stood at £162,683, which the trustees confirmed was above their stated policy target of three to six months of core delivery costs. The trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue for the foreseeable future on a going-concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (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 handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — Gambling Harm UK (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Dentchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Gilham
• John Gilham
• Lesley Buckland · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Tarrega

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GAMBLING WITH LIVES.

• GAMBLING WITH LIVES income £630k
• GAMFAM income £235k
• GAMBLEAWARE income £29.7m
• GAMCARE income £19.9m
• BETKNOWMORE UK income £2.6m
• REFRAME COACHING income £491k

Side by side with its peers

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