Safer Gambling Week 2023: UK & Irish Gambling Industry Unites

PokerNews Staff

Nov 10, 2023 3 min read Last updated Nov 12, 2023

Running from November 13-19, Safer Gambling Week 2023 will see the UK and Irish Gambling & Gaming Industry reaffirm its commitment to promoting safer gambling tools and messages.

First started in 2017, the annual scheme aims to stimulate healthy conversations around safer gambling, driving awareness of gambling-related issues and the tools and support available to vulnerable gamblers.

From big-time bookies to bingo clubs, the cross-sector initiative draws on backing from government, charities, and the entirety of the UK & Irish licensed gambling industry to ensure its vital message promoting responsible gambling does not go unheard.

Crucial topics forming the cornerstone of Safer Gambling Week 2023 include:

How to approach gambling more safely – questions to ask and behaviors to consider
The tools that are available to help you gamble more safely all year round
Sources of further advice and support

Safer Gambling Week 2023 will be looking to build on the hugely successful 2022 campaign, which saw around 200k accounts set deposit limits (61% for the first time) and nearly 30 million impressions for safer gambling messages across Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter).

The aim is to improve these numbers again, with the arrival of Safer Gambling Week 2023 heralding a renewed resolve to tackle gambling-related issues and offering the chance to highlight the safer gambling tools provided by bookmakers available all year round.

Michael Dugher, Chief Executive of the Betting & Gaming Council (BGC), said of Safer Gambling Week 2023, "Safer Gambling Week is now an established annual event in the industry's calendar, doing vital work promoting the safer gambling tools only available in the regulated betting and gaming sector and signposting help to those that need it."

Safer Gambling Week is an example of the regulated industry's determination to keep raising standards.

"All the recent data confirms what we already knew, that rates of problem gambling are consistently low, which is brilliant news, but Safer Gambling Week is an example of the regulated industry's determination to keep raising standards."

Finally, Dugher added, "It's great to see that year-round commitment promoted and publicized so successfully in a single week – I know Safer Gambling Week 2023 will be another huge success."