Flutter Entertainment's Sky Bet brand has teamed up with the English Football League (EFL) to provide £6 million of funding for community projects across England and Wales.
The Building Foundations’ Fund will give 72 EFL clubs a chance to bid for grants of up to £100,000 to invest in ongoing programmes [...]
Lottoland has launched a new charity scratchcard game to raise funds for Hospice UK, the national charity for hospice and end of life care.
Coinciding with Hospice Care Week, the Hospice UK Scratchcard costs £1, with prizes of up to £50,000 for winners.
For each ticket, 20 pence of every pound will [...]
Online betting and gaming operator Betclic has been named as the official title sponsor of Portugal’s top-flight football league, Liga Portugal.
In a deal brokered by IMG, the multi-year deal runs through 2027 and will see the league renamed as Liga Portugal Betclic.
As well as naming and branding rights, the agreement [...]
British-based media group Guardian Media Group has banned all forms of gambling advertising across its print and online platforms.
The global ban was revealed by the group on Thursday, with CEO Anna Bateson citing concerns that gambling ads could lure gamblers into a cycle of addiction that may result in financial [...]
Flutter Entertainment has been unveiled as the new headline sponsor of Cure Leukaemia’s flagship cycling event, The Tour 21.
Flutter has partnered the £1 million fundraising event for the next three years, with The Tour 21 taking place one week ahead of the professional Tour De France race.
The 2023 event takes [...]
London-listed betting and gaming operator Entain has agreed to provide £740,000 of funding for British charity Gordon Moody via its Entain Foundation.
The initial two-year Alumni Project will provide training and supervision skills through its peer mentor programme to former gamblers who have been treated by the charity and want to [...]
The National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) has announced new leadership for its Advisory Board, with Christopher Hebert named chair and Martin Lycka as vice chair.
Marking a significant milestone in the organization’s leadership, new chair Herbert succeeds Stacy Shaw, who also serves as director of corporate social responsibility at the [...]
William Hill will pay a record £19.2 million penalty in relation to “widespread and alarming” failures at the gambling operator.
The penalty payment to Britain’s Gambling Commission is the largest to date and follows an investigation which uncovered widespread social responsibility and anti-money laundering failures.
“When we launched this investigation the failings [...]
Gambling Minister Paul Scully has told industry stakeholders that the much-anticipated Government whitepaper on gambling reform in the UK is only the first step towards a world leading gambling policy.
Speaking at the annual meeting of Britain’s Betting and Gaming Council on Thursday (Jan. 26), Scully noted that the millions of [...]
London-listed gaming operator Entain held its second annual sustainability and ESG showcase event in London on Thursday, where the company revealed the impact of its ARC Safer Gaming programme.
The ARC programme (Advanced Responsibility and Care) is currently available in 22 of Entain’s international markets, including the UK, and has been [...]
GGPoker has become the latest online casino operator to be fined by Britain’s Gambling Commission.
NSUS, which trades as GGPoker, has been fined for failing to identify and interact with customers who may be at risk of experiencing harms associated with gambling.
The operator also failed to take all reasonable steps to [...]
Six leading US sports betting and iGaming operators have come together to agree new industry-led responsible gambling standards across the United States.
The 12-point pledge is a commitment to principles of responsible online gambling and are recommended as the principles for an industry benchmark, to coincide with this month’s Responsible Gaming [...]