Gambling with Lives
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We are a community of families bereaved by gambling-related suicide that raises awareness of the devastating effects of gambling disorder & campaigns for change
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There’s much work to do to prevent gambling suicides and support bereaved families.
If you've ever wanted to support our work, there's never been a better time. Donate to our
@BigGive
#Kind2Mind
appeal and your gift will be doubled:
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The government must act now.
#StopGamblingSuicides
@10DowningStreet
@hmtreasury
@DCMS
@GamRegGB
@38degrees
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@EmmaLewellBuck
@AdmiralSlots
If you talked with us about the families we support who have lost their sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and partners to gambling-related suicide you might not be so keen to promote this.
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Luke Ashton's inquest has concluded that gambling disorder killed Luke & the operator Betfair could & should have done much more to intervene.
This is unprecedented.
Huge respect to
@annieashton2705
who has been amazingly strong & determined throughout.
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We’re proud to share that our co-founders, Liz and Charles Ritchie, have been awarded MBEs for their services to charity and bereaved families.
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The
@independent
's "guide to the best UK slots" is a random list of 40+ online casinos offering incentives to lure you in.
As a charity supporting families bereaved by gambling suicide, we're asking:
Is this responsible journalism?
@Geordie_Greig
@domjoly
@The_Real_JSP
?
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Kay Wadsworth, who lost her daughter Kimberly to gambling, has written a powerful letter to the
@BarclaysWSL
ahead of the
@lionesses
World Cup match tomorrow.
@KayWadsworth6
is calling on the women's game to think of their young fans and reject all gambling partnerships.
Please
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Every day the Gambling Act review white paper is delayed is another family shattered.
Here
@annieashton2705
sets out what needs to happen.
#StopGamblingSuicides
@10DowningStreet
@hmtreasury
@DCMS
@GamRegGB
@38degrees
@CPhilpOfficial
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Amazingly powerful from
@annieashton2705
talking to
@PaulMerse
on
@BBCOne
last night.
The gambling industry needs to hang its head in shame.
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At least one person dies every single day in the UK because of gambling – “that’s not something we wanted on our conscience,” says
@NicolaPalios
Wonderful to see
@TranmereRovers
put their fans & community first
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Fines are no deterrent for huge gambling companies.
They must lose their licences for serious failures, especially when linked to suicides.
Share if you agree!
We're supporting three families who've lost loved ones to suicide linked to social responsibility and other failures by the gambling operator Gamesys, which has today been fined £6 million by the Gambling Commission.
Statement below.
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16-year-old Luke Littler's rise means darts will have a massive new following among children and young people.
The number of gambling ads these young fans are forced to absorb is shocking.
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Today, more than four years after Jack Ritchie died, Liz and Charles Ritchie will finally learn the coroner's conclusions at the outcome of the inquest into his death.
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Today we're launching a petition calling on all UK media outlets to follow the
@guardian
's lead & stop advertising gambling.
It's time to do the right thing and stop profiting from people's misery.
Please sign & share
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This is a welcome first step, but the nation expects the government to do much more than this, and soon.
Read James Grimes’s opinion in today's
@Guardian
⬇️
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Today, the largest-ever group of people bereaved by gambling-related suicides – 50 family members from 18 families from across the UK – are at Westminster, demanding every gambling-related suicide is properly investigated.
Please RT to show your support.
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A gambling ad bigger than a house at Dublin airport. This madness must end.
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We were at
@10DowningStreet
earlier today, along with
@JamesGrimesGwL
and
@Peter_Shilton
, as they handed in their petition, calling for an end to gambling advertising and sponsorship in football
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Good news:
The FA has replied to Kay’s letter confirming the TOP TWO women's divisions will end front-of-shirt gambling sponsorship – that's a step further than the men's game 👏
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Great to see Mick Lynch supporting gambling reform!
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Gambling operators have access to all the data they need to prevent harm.
Instead, they use it to exploit their customers for maximum profit, or, as
@mattzarb
puts it here:
“Your gambling addiction is their business model.”
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At least one person dies every day in the UK because of gambling.
Football's response? Extend the league's partnership with a gambling company by 5 years.
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Jack Ritchie inquest: Coroner finds “woeful” government failings caused Jack’s death.
Read Charles and Liz Ritchie's full statement below.
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Today Liz and Charles Ritchie collect their MBEs for their charity work with and for families bereaved by gambling-related suicide.
"These awards mean the many who died, like our son Jack, have been seen."
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Fantastic to see
@AFCWimbledon
listen to its fans and back
@the_bigstep
campaign today
If every club did the same, gambling sponsorship would be a thing of the past
#StopGamblingSuicides
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All
@GambleWithLives
families will tell you that every single day is tough. But anniversaries are stark reminders. Yesterday it was our turn.
Keep strong everyone - we will get change.
Always in our thoughts and hearts.
Jack Ritchie (28/12/92 - 22/11/17)
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“We will never again have a betting brand on the front of our shirt”
–
@NorwichCityFC
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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“When you realise most of the gambling industry’s profits come from people who are addicted, you realise it’s not in their interests to reduce addiction,”
@mattzarb
tells a shocked
@PaulMerse
on BBC One now
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"How can someone make that many bets in one day & it not be picked up?"
@annieashton2705
was brilliant on
@BBCBreakfast
earlier holding gambling operator Betfair to account after a coroner concluded they could have done much much more to help her husband Luke.
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We’re at this year’s Labour conference in Liverpool!
We’re calling on Labour to take seriously the health crisis caused by the gambling industry.
If you’re here, come and say hi – we’re at stand 27.
#Lab23
#StopGamblingSuicides
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We got this message from an ex-industry employee on today's BBC story on AI (they agreed we could share it)o😮
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This is not only tone-deaf but also dangerous.
At least one person dies every day in the UK because of gambling.
Fans, including children, should be able to watch/ go to games without being bombarded by gambling ads.
#StopGamblingSuicides
Aston Villa have agreed a multi-year partnership with BK8, which sees the brand join as the new Principal and Front of Shirt Partner.
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Today it has been officially recognized that gambling can kill in the new National Suicide Prevention Strategy.
This is a big step forward, and something bereaved families have said for years.
#StopGamblingSuicides
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A major inquest on Wednesday will look at the role gambling played in Luke Ashton’s death and if Betfair could have done more to prevent it.
It’s thought to be the first time a gambling company is an interested person at an inquest.
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Today was an important day for families bereaved by gambling-related suicide.
Every death must be a lesson learned.
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We banned cigarette adverts a long time ago.
It’s time we did the same with gambling adverts.
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In case you missed this brilliant video from
@Cassetteboy
👏👏
#StopGamblingSuicides
@scullyp
@michelledonelan
@GaryLineker
@PoulterWill
@BeardedGenius
@eddieizzard
@rustyrockets
@stormzy
@campbellclaret
@robdelaney
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“A coroner has ruled that the support and advice available to a gambling addict who killed himself were woefully inadequate”
Please watch & share this
@BBCLookNorth
news report on Jack’s inquest
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With more than 55,000 children addicted to gambling in the UK, the ASA has rightly identified gambling advertising as harmful.
But to have a real impact, the government must stop the normalisation of high-risk gambling by ending all gambling advertising.
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“There was a gambling-related death yesterday, one today and will be one tomorrow. The government has a duty to prevent these deaths”
Please read & share Liz Ritchie’s powerful
@guardian
op ed ⬇️
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“Even after he wasn’t here they were sending free bets to him”
Full of admiration for Judith Bruney, who lost her son Chris to gambling suicide, for speaking out to
@PaulBrandITV
on
@ITVtonight
about how predatory gambling companies operate.
#StopGamblingSuicides
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“William Hill have behaved abhorrently but I’m not surprised because I know the industry”
GwL Strategy Director
@WillProchaska
reacts to William Hill’s record fine on
@GMB
a few moments ago
#StopGamblingSuicides
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A reminder: the gambling industry is not a normal industry selling normal products.
Addiction is at the very core of their business model.
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Charles & Liz Ritchie on
@SkyNews
telling
@KayBurley
every gambling suicide must be investigated & lessons learned
Since Gambling with Lives began in 2018, over 1,500 people will have taken their lives due to gambling. How many more families must suffer before there's change?
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Today, six mums bereaved by gambling-related suicide delivered a letter to
@RishiSunak
urging him to end the gambling industry's control of research, education, & treatment
@michelledonelan
@scullyp
#StopGamblingSuicides
Read more:
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“It’s a model which operates on addiction. It’s a model where they’re extracting as much money as quickly as possible, meanwhile grooming the next generation."
@Charles_GwL
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No fine, no matter how big, will stop gambling operators from exploiting their customers & driving hundreds every year to suicide.
Licences must be revoked & individuals held accountable, including facing prison.
#StopGamblingSuicides
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“It’s a recognition of the suffering of the families”
Liz and Charles Ritchie react to receiving MBEs earlier on
@BBCBreakfast
Please watch and share
#StopGamblingSuicides
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Thanks to
@the_bigstep
and everyone else who has sent messages. Today is not going to be easy, so it really helps to know that we are in people's thoughts.
Today is for Jack and is the next step to getting the changes that are needed to stop future gambling tragedies.
Jack Ritchie took his life in Nov 2017 - gambling was the root and trigger of his death.
Today sees the 2nd Pre-Inquest Review to determine the scope of the final inquest.
Thanks to the 100s who have sent messages of support for his family.
Justice for Jack and change for all.
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“Never, ever, were we, or our children, warned or educated about the risks of gambling, and how easy it is to become addicted".
This week, 6 mums who lost their children to gambling suicide handed a letter in at
@10DowningStreet
.
#StopGamblingSuicides
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"It's inescapable"
The evidence is clear – gambling advertising draws young people into addiction, resulting in hundreds of deaths each year
If the government don't take action on advertising, they will bear responsibility for the deaths
@DCMS
@hmtreasury
@10DowningStreet
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"The reason they spend so much money on gambling sponsorship & advertising is because it works."
@JamesGrimesGwL
on
@BBCBreakfast
this morning
#StopGamblingSuicides
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"Gambling companies target young people with free bets and this sort of thing, they entice them in. And we know that that can lead to addiction"
Thank you
@GaryLineker
for calling out gambling companies
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Today we launch our first-ever fundraising appeal.
More and more families bereaved by gambling-related suicide are contacting us for specialist support and we must step up.
Please donate, and please share.
Thank you!
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If the whitepaper doesn’t include meaningful reforms on gambling advertising, could lobbying like this be why?
#StopGamblingSuicides
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“What we have got, as Liz says, are highly addictive products which are hidden behind a mask of ‘fun’.”
Please watch & share this clip of
@Charles_GwL
explaining why we urgently need clear public health warnings on certain gambling products on today’s
@BBCBreakfast
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Not perfect by any means, but a welcome move & significant acceptance of the harm caused by gambling advertising & sponsorship
#StopGamblingSuicides
Premier League clubs have today collectively agreed to withdraw gambling sponsorship from the front of clubs’ matchday shirts, becoming the first sports league in the UK to take such a measure voluntarily in order to reduce gambling advertising
➡️
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Luton Town CEO Gary Sweet has said rejecting gambling sponsorship has cost £2m - £3m per season but has no regrets.
Promoting gambling costs society so much more than that - Thank you Gary and
@LutonTown
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Thank you
@Keir_Starmer
for taking time to speak with bereaved families today.
All our conversations at
#Lab22
have shown a real understanding of the urgent need for gambling reform.
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Families bereaved by gambling-related suicide are at the Labour Party conference this week calling for gambling reform!
#Lab22
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The results of
@MartinSLewis
's poll are in...
Over 80% of respondents want gambling ads banned ❌
#StopGamblingSuicides
@scullyp
@michelledonelan
@RishiSunak
@Jeremy_Hunt
@10DowningStreet
@hmtreasury
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Excellent input from everyone at the
@CommonsCMS
committee today.
Here's
@WillProchaska
on how the framing of the debate is crucial.
"Individual responsibility was used by the tobacco & fossil fuel industries to great effect & now the gambling industry is running with it"
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"Access to the next market of addicts"
@OfficialFPL
can be played by children as young as 13, with no parental permission & the gambling industry knows that
GwL's
@tom_fleming1988
on
@BBCNews
this morning
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“It’s not a responsible industry – 90% of the industry’s profits come from 5% of their customers”
@WillProchaska
speaking to
@alexisconran
on
@channel5_tv
just now
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More than 500 gambling suicides in England alone since the Gambling Act review began
Every one is a family shattered
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"They've got a business model which is based upon harming people... football fans are sick of it"
Our
@WillProchaska
on
@talkSPORT
with
@JimWhite
&
@Sjopinion10
discussing football's harmful relationship with gambling
#StopGamblingSuicides
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A date for your dairies:
Monday 11th October, 9pm – make sure you watch
@PaulMerse
’s new documentary about gambling addiction on
@BBCOne
, featuring GwL families including
@annieashton2705
,
@MartinJ25530514
and
@Charles_GwL
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'Safer gambling' must start with a safer gambling industry and safer products, not meaningless and patronising slogans such as 'Take Time to Think'.
#SGWeek21
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End all gambling advertising ❌
Makes no sense that the government admits slots are addictive while allowing them to be promoted in football like this.
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Someone dies from gambling suicide every day in England.
To
#StopGamblingSuicides
bereaved families demand:
❌ An end to gambling advertising
💷 Evidence-based affordability checks
🏥 A statutory levy for independent treatment, education & research
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We’ll welcome any positives in today’s white paper, but it seems much will be pushed to consultation, meaning more delay.
We’ve waited years, more than 1,000 people have died while the industry has made billions in profit from harm.
We need action now to stop the deaths.
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Today’s white paper is just a first step, much more must be done to
#StopGamblingSuicides
And we’ll keep fighting until that happens
Link to our full statement below
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On Monday
@annieashton2705
, who lost her husband Luke to gambling suicide, handed a petition in at
@10DowningStreet
Signed by nearly 90,000 people, the petition is calling on the government to publish the white paper now &
#StopGamblingSuicides
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Thank you
@RonJichardson
!
Join us at midday today for the
@GRHAPPG
&
@pgreform
Gambling Reform Rally:
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“You wouldn't give an alcoholic 100 free shots of vodka if they stopped drinking five years ago. So why do we allow this to happen?”
Powerful contribution from our
@JamesGrimesGwL
in this in-depth
@BBCNews
piece
@lucyfrazermp
#StopGamblingSuicides
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"Gambling addiction killed them all"
Hugely powerful from
@charles_gwl
at
@commonsCMS
earlier. Here he talks about gambling as the root and trigger of suicide.
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So do we 👏🏻
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“It’s not poor people appearing in gambling adverts, it’s f**king multi-millionaires!” –
@paulmerse
on gambling adverts
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As parents, we thought we knew about all the different things to warn our children about – drugs, alcohol, sexual predators.
But there was one predator nobody warned us about and that’s why we started Gambling with Lives – to warn other families.
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Would be refreshing if rich footballers & football managers who appear in gambling ads took
@Tyson_Fury
's lead.
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British footballers will stage their first on-pitch protest against the effects of gambling harm this weekend
#YellowLaces
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55,000 children are already addicted to gambling in the UK – is it any wonder?
Please retweet.
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