When is 2023 Safer Gambling Week?

A total of 200,000 accounts set deposit limits during the campaign last year, an increase of 12.5% from 2021.

When is 2023 Safer Gambling Week?

Every year, the gambling industry comes together to promote safer gambling, highlighting the tools that customers can use to remain in control. This is known as Safer Gambling Week and is organised by the BGC, Bacta, The Lotteries Council, and The Bingo Association.

A total of 200,000 accounts set deposit limits during the campaign last year, an increase of 12.5% from 2021. This year, Safer Gambling Week will be held from 13th-19th November.

The campaign represents the industry's commitment to lowering problem gambling rates, according to BGC CEO Michael Dugher.

“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,” said Dugher.

“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.

“It’s great to see that year-round commitment promoted and publicised so successfully in a single week.”

The initiative demonstrates the way the industry prioritises and treats gambling addiction, according to Bacta's president and chief executive, John White.

“Safer Gambling is at the forefront of what Bacta members do on a daily basis,” said White.

“I’m delighted to say that we continue to make significant advances in delivering a safer gambling experience and helping to reduce further the extremely small number of consumers who do experience problems to their current record low levels."

“Safer Gambling Week shines a light on the measures and processes that are in place to help keep low stake low prize gambling entertainment an activity that’s enjoyed by millions of people the length and breadth of the country.”