Safer gambling
Safer gambling
Help, limits and blocking tools for anyone in Great Britain. No offers on this page.
Talk now
The National Gambling Helpline
GamCare answers the National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133. It is free, confidential and open at any hour, every day, with live chat at gamcare.org.uk (opens in a new tab). You do not need to be in crisis to call.
Signs
When gambling is doing harm
- Spending more time or money than you meant to.
- Borrowing, using savings or selling things to gamble.
- Gambling to get back money you have lost.
- Feeling restless, low or irritable when you are not gambling.
- Hiding how much you gamble from people close to you.
- Gambling getting in the way of work, sleep, money or family.
One of these is reason enough to pause. Harm often builds slowly, and it reaches the people around you too.
Tools
What every licensed site must give you
- Deposit limits per day, week or month, chosen as you sign up.
- Reality checks that tell you how long you have been playing.
- Time-outs that lock an account for a short spell.
- Self-exclusion from one operator for six months or longer.
- GAMSTOP (opens in a new tab): free self-exclusion from every site licensed in Great Britain, for six months, one year or five years.
- Gambling blocks in many banking apps, and blocking software for devices.
More detail in deposit limits, time-outs and reality checks and GAMSTOP and self-exclusion.
Support
Free help in Great Britain
GamCare (opens in a new tab)
Answers the National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133, free and confidential, day and night, and runs live chat and local counselling.
GAMSTOP (opens in a new tab)
Free self-exclusion from every online gambling site licensed in Great Britain, for six months, one year or five years, with a single registration.
Gambling Therapy (opens in a new tab)
Online support groups, one-to-one chat and an app, run by the Gordon Moody charity.
Gordon Moody (opens in a new tab)
Residential and online treatment programmes for people with a gambling problem.
NHS gambling support (opens in a new tab)
NHS gambling clinics in England accept self-referrals; a GP can refer you too.
Under 18
If you are under 18
It is illegal for a gambling site to let anyone under 18 play. If gambling worries you, your own or a parent's, Childline (opens in a new tab) is free on 0800 1111.
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