CARE: Christian Action, Research and Education

For what you believe
Open menu Close menu

Dan Boucher on Premier Radio: gambling industry must do more to help addicts

Gambling
19 November 2016
Premier reference 6 5

CARE's Director of Parliamentary Affairs, Dan Boucher spoke to Premier radio about how the gambling industry must step up and do more to help out gambling addicts.

"The gambling industry made £12.6 billion of profit last year, says CARE. From that profit, only £7 million was donated to gambling addiction charities. Boucher called for the industry to do much more to help. He told Premier: "We should move to a place where the gambling industry puts back in to help those who suffer as a consequence of the product it provides. They currently only contribute less than a tenth of one per cent of their gross gambling yield."

If you didn't manage to catch Dan live on the Premier Radio news show talking about this, Premier also wrote a news article about the issue based on Dan's interview. You can read it HERE.

Receive news from CARE each week

By signing up stay in touch you agree to receive emails from CARE. You can change your mailing preferences at any time either by getting in touch with CARE, or through the links on any of our emails.

Recent news in Gambling

Gamb3

Gambling

While for some, gambling is just harmless fun, for a significant minority it causes genuine devastation. Our vision is to see laws passed that will help protect vulnerable problem gamblers.

Find out more about the cause